Maths 
 
​In maths this week we have started our new unit of money! The children have really enjoyed exploring this unit. We started the week by consolidating our existing knowledge of different coin values and moved into converting from pence to pounds. From this, we proceeded with adding money using concrete and pictorial representations.  Next week we will continue our learning around money practically progressing into giving change. 



Literacy

This week in literacy we have been recapping the features of instructions. The children recalled what is required to write a clear set of instructions and had great fun going on a feature hunt around the classroom. We then linked our literacy with our art topic and moved into planning our own set of instructions on how to make a stone age pot.  As the children made these without me our roles were reversed and they were teaching me something new! I look forward to beginning our writing next week. 

Maths

How has our first week ended already! This week in maths we have continued our learning around multiplication and division. As we are fabulous mathematicians we have been able to use the times tables facts we already know to solve much trickier calculations with numbers 10x as big! As always Team JF have worked really hard to explore and understand this concept and have demonstrated great resilience in working through the problems they were presented with.

What a fantastic start to this term! 


Literacy

Team JF's literacy this week has been really exciting! We have started our unit of adventure stories and have been using the book Supertato to unpick the structure and steal some ideas. We began working in groups to create our own checklist of what make a great adventure story and from this we started exploring these features. After a lot of discussion and many votes, we finally decided the plan for our own stories. We will begin our writing next week, however, I already know they are going to be amazing as the children generated an abundance of impressive ideas. 

This week has been Enterprise Week in school and I am incredibly proud of Team JF. The children produced some fantastic Christmas treats and they thoroughly enjoyed the whole process. Not only that, their products were a bit hit throughout the school.

Well done! 

Maths

In maths we have continued our work around multiplication and division with a focus on the four times tables. The children have worked really hard not only to solve the calculations but also writing the inverse to them. From this, they were able to tackle some tricky word problems where they had to decide the correct calculation to use.. 

Once again, Team JF have blown me away with their determination and eagerness to learn. 



Literacy
This week in literacy we have been exploring persuasive writing. We have looked at a range of persuasive techniques, their purposes and thought of our own examples.
From this, we have decided to combine our literacy with our topic, of the Amazon rainforest, and will be writing persuasive letters to stop deforestation.  The children have gathered lots of information and have developed a great argument against it.

​I look forward to starting our writing next week! 

Literacy .

Welcome back!

Our focus this week in literacy has been an introduction to instructions. We initially explored different types of instructions and unpicked the  features of them.

From this, we worked in groups using the Ipad's to create our own instructional videos of how to make a paper hat. The children loved this activity and really got into character producing some fantastic videos! 

Next week, we will continue our work around instructions and will be transferring the skills we have learned into our writing.


Maths

We have spent this week finishing off our unit of addition and subtraction. The children have worked extremely hard tackling the formal method of column subtraction. As we moved into exchanging numbers they quickly grasped the need to take from a neighbour if they didn't have enough to complete the subtraction. 

The children's effort and determination has amazed me this week as I know this was challenging for them.

Well done Team JF!

Literacy

Last week Mrs Lawson needed Team JF's help! 

After looking in the school library, she realised we didn't have many books about our topic of Brazil.  Therefore, she asked if we could produce some information texts for the non-fiction area. Of course we said yes! 

​Throughout the past couple of weeks Team JF have been exploring non-fiction texts, unpicking the features, language and style of them.
We decided as a class the topics we would focus on and have started our research using iPad's, books and video clips.

Next week we will transform our notes into informative sentences and begin our first draft. 

Literacy

This week Team JF have been on a sensory walk around school to inspire our writing. We recorded in different areas of the school what we could see, hear, feel and smell. From this we developed our collection of words into fantastic descriptions!
The children have worked really hard this week and I am very proud of what they have achieved so far.

Keep it up Team JF!

Maths
This week the Truthful,Tropical Tribe have been continuing work around place value, in particular 1,10 and 100 more or less than a number. We have worked extremely hard to develop our reasoning skills in order to explain how we solved our problem. We have worked in groups to solve different problems using the mastery steps of 'show it', 'draw it', 'explain it' and 'prove it'. When the children had reached their answers they were able to present it to the rest of the class.