Term 1 week 6

Hello :)

This week Oak Class have been outstanding!

English

In English we have been writing our final diary entries as if we were a chimney sweep, a miner or a factory worker. Oak Class have really taken on the part of being a child in Victorian England and have written outstanding piece of writing detailing what it was like to work a day as a child over 200 years ago.

They have continued to challenge themselves with their vocabulary choices and are getting more confident with using their sounds to help them to spell more complex words. They are working hard with their letter formation and I have seen far more capital letters and full stops which is amazing!

Maths

In maths this week we have been looking at relative facts to 10 and how these can be used to help us know our number facts to 100. We have also begun to look at adding in Oak Class with the use of a number line to help us. We started the week looking at adding a 2-digit number and a 1-digit number and then ended it with some problem solving which was brilliant!

Afternoons

In history this term we have been looking at how sources can be used to help us answer questions about the past. It has helped Oak Class to start to become critical thinkers, asking questions about the sources and thinking of what sources will be the most useful.

This week we have started to look at a significant event beyond living memory with the invention of the first working plane invented by the Wright Brothers. Oak Class discussed how this is relevant to them now and using the plaque in Kitty Hawk which can be found next to the statue of the Wright brother’s plane, they wrote their own summaries of why this was such an important event.