This week in Windrush Class - w/e 28th February

In English this week we have started sentence stacking a disaster story. We have based our writing on the book Flood by Alvaro F. Villa; this is a wordless picture book and it has been exciting to put our own story to the illustrations. We have focused on building up the tension as a storm begins and have really worked on using a thesaurus to find lots of powerful and dramatic adjectives to describe the storm.

This week in maths we have started a new unit on Statistics. We have learnt how to interpret pictograms and bar charts, as well as drawing them based on the data we collected as a class. We have used scales of 2, 5 and 10. Next week we will focus more on data represented in tables.

Our play rehearsals are in full swing! We have now had a full read through of the script and I have been really impressed with the effort the children are putting into their performances! We have also been working hard at practising the songs and these are already sounding great!
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This week’s spellings have been set on Spelling Shed; we will have a short test next Tuesday.
Spelling Rule: The /l/ sound spelled ‘-al’ at the end of words.  
Arrival
Burial
Comical
Emotional
National
Magical
Personal
Optional
Survival
Tropical