Beech Tree Class Blog 2023-2024
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Weekly Update-30/6/23
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, the children have been working on writing their alternative stories of Stone Age Boy. They have now completed them and edited them to improve the quality further. We continuously read examples together as we were working on the different sections of the story and I was very impressed by the quality of work that has been produced.
In maths, our focus has been on time, specifically working on converting between analogue time and 12 hour digital time, converting between 12 hour digital and 24 hour digital and then converting between all three. We also focused on time related word problems as well. Whilst it has been a challenge for some children, every single child has given it their best effort and the improvement from the start to the end of the week has been excellent.
In music, we have continued our unit on recorders and have moved to stage 2 now. The children have become very confident playing pieces of music that consist of the B, A and G notes and have also had a go at writing their own basic music. They were also introduced to the C note this week, which did create some challenges, however, as always, the children demonstrated great resilience when faced with a challenge. With practise, the improvement was fantastic throughout the lesson.
In science, we are continuing our unit of work on plants. This week, the focus has been on the transportation of water through plants. The children have set up an investigation to see whether water moves through a plant quicker in warmer temperatures or in colder temperatures. They all made sure that they set up their experiments fairly and have been observing them everyday to see the changes that are occurring and comparing how quickly it is happening.
In our reading, we are continuing to read our class novel (Stig of the Dump) and the children have been doing some excellent retrieval and inference work based on the chapters that we are currently reading.
That's all for now,
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly Blog-23/6/23
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, the children have been focused on their end of year assessments. They've worked incredibly hard throughout the year and I'm very pleased to say that they have done extremely well. Well done everyone!
The children also completed their carnival masks and we have chosen a selection of them to be exhibited as part of the ALPT art exhibition.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly Update-16/6/23
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, in maths, we have continued our work around money, focusing on using all four maths operations when solving one and two step word problems. These problems were a challenge for the children, but it's always great to see such resilience when faced with a challenge and seeing the children applying what they have learnt in order to solve the problems they were faced with.
In our writing, the children have been planning their stories which will revolve around using the same main characters from Stone Age Boy but creating an alternative story for it. The ideas that they have come up with in the planning stage are excellent and I can't wait to see what they produce.
In computing, we are focusing on desktop publishing and we have been looking at how text, images or both together are used (e.g. road signs or invitations) and discussing the advantages and disadvantages of using just text, just images or both. This week, the children were tasked with creating their own digital birthday sign using a word art text graphic generator programme. We discussed how the text had to be legible, how it had to stand out, what images are appropriate to go with it and how it could be set out effectively. They really enjoyed it and produced some lovely pieces.
The children have also been working on their carnival masks, which are for the ALPT art exhibition and will be completed in the early part of next week.
That's all for now,
Mr Kyriacou :)