Perfect Penguins- Autumn 2 Week 4

Date: 29th Nov 2024 @ 3:55pm

Maths
This week in Maths, we have been looking at place value and decimals. At the start of the week, we looked at rounding decimals, looking at whether the number ends in a 5 or more and rounding this up, or 4 or less and rounding this down. At the end of the week we have been testing all of our fluency skills.

English
In English this week, we have started our new unit learning how to write a setting description. We are going to be writing this for the author Mark Haddon, who wrote the book ’The Sea of Tranquillity’ that we will read next week. After looking at the features of a Setting Description, we looked in detail at what similes were and also how we can use expanded noun phrases properly. Penguins have loved listening to this similes song today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89iv4Y2Ulh8

Other Subjects
This week in Topic, Penguins have started the Art mini project ‘Taotie’ where we learned that a Taotie was a gluttonous creature used to decorate everyday objects in the Shang Dynasty. First, we sketched some images of Taoties, they we made these out of clay. Finally, when they were try, we painted these in Bronze colours so that they looked like the images we had studied.

Penguins Achievements!

Star of the Week: Joshua-James- for being an excellent learner and trying his best in all lessons, particularly in his Topic work.

Star Writer: Olivia- for a beautifully written non-chronological report all about Space.  

Class Attendance: 96%

Thank you Perfect Penguins for another amazing week!