Truro's January Blog - 28/1/2021

Welcome to our January blog! 

After the closure of our class bubble, we have all had to adapt to a new way of learning, which the children have done amazingly.

We have planned lots of exciting and engaging activities to keep learning as close to normality as possible.

English 

We started January focusing on mystery stories. We read our new class text called 'The Manor House' and picked out the features that make a story a mystery story. After this, we really enjoyed innovating our own stories from the text set in Roman times. We had to think carefully about the language we used to describe the setting and characters in our stories. We knew our language choices were important because this is how the reader pictures the setting and what characters look like. Our innovated stories were based in a Roman Villa, we used lots of ambitious adjectives to describe the villa. 

We finished our writing unit by writing our very own mystery story. The stories that were written were amazing and created lots of suspense. You can look at some of our amazing writing down below. 

Maths

This term in Maths we have been learning about multiplication and division and using different methods to work these questions out. We have been using the partitioning method to work out our multiplication problems this has meant that we have been using our learning from last term of partitioning numbers and applying this to our multiplication questions. We have also learnt to use the number line method to calculate our division problems. 

Science

Our topic this term is forces and magnets. 

One of our investigations we have carried out is searching our homes for magnets, hunting around fridges and in cupboards. The quality of the investigations the children carried out was equally impressive, with children recording a whole range of investigations into a variety of different materials. Here are some of the results of their amazing work.