We have started writing our biography on Mary Anning today and today we wrote the introduction. We needed to include a question to make the reader think and our 5W’s. Who, What, When, Where and Why.

Henry Bond’s super example:

Have you ever wondered if there was life before humans? Well, Mary Anning did exactly that in the 1800’s from her home town of Lyme Regis, Dorset. A well known area for Jurassic fossils, Mary became a very good palaeontologist, proving to people that life existed on earth before homo sapiens. 

Below is our first Quiz of the Week. These quizzes are a great way to open up a discussion with your children about what they have learnt this week and would also be a useful way to help everybody recall key knowledge.

9.10.20 – Quiz of the week

Maths

We have been learning our x3 table and remember that we use ‘lots of’ to help us remember. Below are a few x3 target boards. You must multiply the numbers on the inside by 3. Be careful, if the answer has already been given, you must do the inverse and divide.

x3 target boards

English

We are continuing our research of Mary Anning. Here are a couple of more questions you can find out the answers to. They will help with our biography writing.

1. Can you name her three biggest fossil finds? What dates did she find them on?
2. Why was the church uncomfortable with Mary’s fossil finds. What idea did they challenge?
3. Why did Mary become frustrated with the ‘Men of Science’?

Science

We are planning an investigation into the permeability of soil after the recent Shropshire floods. We have learnt that there are 6 different types of soil: Loam, Silt, Peaty, Chalky, Clay, Sandy. Which soil do you think would be the most permeable and allow water to drain through or the least permeable?

Follow these instructions to create your own investigation.

Activity Sheet Soil Permeability

Good news Room 2!

Mrs Davies has finally got her login details sorted and has got TTRS up and running for you!

I have set you all times tables, which are individual to you, so you can now practise at home with confidence and become a Rock Legend.

Use your login details which are found in the front of your Reading Record Book.

Good Luck

For those of you at home, here is what we have been learning about in order for you to try at home.

Maths

We have been handling and learning all about the properties of 3D shapes. We have talked about their faces, edges (where the faces meet) and their vertices (where the edges come together- a fancy name for a ‘corner’ but ssshhhh, don’t tell anyone I said that!)

Here is one of the sheets we had a go at completing, see if you can try it at home.

3d shapes

English

We have been recently looking into the exciting life of Mary Anning, a paleontologist/fossil hunter!

Watch this 12 minute dramatisation about her life called ‘Mary Anning’ on BBC teach. Over the course of each day we have been writing a diary entry as if we were Mary about her first famous discovery.   We have looked at how Mary must have felt to find this curiosity and the patience she needed chip away at the slate to discover it. Below are the notes we have organise into order and broken down into paragraphs. Use them to help you structure your work. Have a go and see where your imagination takes you.

Mary Anning notes

Science

We have made a compost bin because we have been looking at the different layers of soil and their importance. Follow these instructions and have a go!

Creating a Mini Compost Bin Instruction Sheet

I thought I would post this week’s spellings just in case the children have forgotten them or there is always the folder in the class with spare ones in too. Mrs Hilditch and myself have decided to spilt the spellings into 3 groups. The children all know which group they are in. Please can the children practise these spellings at home as it is so important for their learning. The children need to return their spelling sheet on a Friday morning, ready for their test. Thank you.

G1 week 6

Group 2 week 6

Group 3 week 6

Over the last few weeks, Room 2 have immersed themselves into all things Roman, in particular looking at the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the complete destruction of Pompeii, a nearby town. Based on a book called ‘Escape from Pompeii’, Room 2 have written some fantastic descriptions of when the volcano erupted. They wrote them and then used the schools’ new Chromebooks to publish them.

Please feel free to come and have a read of their hard work!

Congratulations to both James and Lucy on becoming Room 2’s new School Councillors. We know that you will represent both our class and our school brilliantly!

Room 2 have gone 3-D crazy today as we have spent our maths looking into the properties of these shapes (such as faces, vertices and edges) and trying to build them using different materials.

We used a carousel of ideas to allow all the children a go at the different activities which included:

• Using the chrome books to play games where we identified the different shapes.
• Used actual 3-D shapes to count the properties accurately.
• Using various materials to build different shapes such as prisms etc.

Check out some of our activities below.