Today during our literacy lesson, we have been recapping how to use a variety of adjectives to add more description to our writing and help the reader create a picture in their head. 

We began by drawing the object Mr Henderson told us E.g. Chair, then we drew a second picture of the chair once Mr Henderson had included more adjectives. 

Then, we created a mind map of nouns and we had to expand them by adding adjectives to each one without repeating them. 

This week, my maths group have been making data and creating graphs. We begun by making a grouped data tally chart. Afterwards we made a frequency bar chart. Finally we converted the information into percentages and then displayed the information as a pie chart. To do that, we needed to convert the percentage into a decimal and then multiply by 360 to work out how many degrees each section was. 

Today, we begun looking into the anti-Jewish laws put into place as Great Germany invaded Poland and other surrounding countries. Children had to sort the laws into chronological order and then discuss them as a class

Today, during our ICT time, we continued to learn about how people used to exchange secret messages. We used torches to send Morse Code messages to each other. 

Today, we pretended we were in the 1940´s during World War 2. We had to imagine we were in a battle field and needed to send a message to someone else on the other side of the field. We discussed different ways we could do this and realised we could not send a text message or use our smart phones to do it. 


Following this, we looked at semaphore messages send using coloured flags. We used the picture below to try to send messages to our partners in the playground. 

My literacy homework - click on the links and play the games to recap your knowledge on reported speech.

Today, we have been looking at World War 2 newspaper articles and identifying the features used. Some examples are:

• Headlines
• Captions
• Photographs
• Chronological order
• Quotes
• Columns

During our PE lesson today, we imagined we were back in 1940's and were training to be in the Army. We had a circuit of activities to complete and we recorded our scores. Each week we will see if we are fitter and strong enough for the army! 

Today, we researched WW2 and looked for clues that would give us the answers to some of our questions. We then added this information to our mind map.

During our maths lesson today, we imagined we were in WW2 and had to work out how many rations we could by in a week. We had to use a variety of skills to work it out! 

Today, we used our maths skills to place important events from WW2 in order. Using the timeline helped us to begin to answer some of the questions we wanted to find out. 

To begin our topic on WW2, we thought about all of the things we know, think we know and want to know about world war 2. Afterwards, we put all of our questions together and will refer to them as the topic continues.

I hope you have all had a lovely holiday, are well rested and ready to learn again! We return to school on Thursday to begin our new topic - World War 2.