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We used Google Classroom to do live writing in English.  I can give immediate feedback  and children make great progress.

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I chose children this week for the Golden Frame who, quite frankly, made my life much easier this week! We have a limited number of Chrome Books in school which I was keen to use for live writing for reasons explained in the English thread. The Chrome Books were distributed randomly and it wasn't until the end of the lesson that I had no clue which children hadn't used them as they had made absolutely no fuss about not getting one. There wasn't a single protestation of, "That's not fair," or. "Why have they got one and I haven't." The children just got on with their work knowing that the next time it would be their turn. This is a big deal with 9 and 10 year olds and I was really proud of them and GRATEFUL that they understood this. So well done to George, Austin, Ryan, Olivia, Avah and Marko.

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In Guided Reading we (very nearly) finished Friend of Foe.  Over the course of the 2 weeks, we have learnt many new words, which we are then trying to use in our writing, and have started learning about WW2 in preparation for Year 6. The children loved the story and it sparked really fabulous discussions about what being an enemy really is, whether you should help someone if they help you and what actually lies behind wars. It was wonderful to hear the children talking, debating, disagreeing with tremendous respect for each others' views and also to hear them using many of the phrases that we had used in our previous discursive writing unit. I will put the last chapter on Google Classroom for the children to access.

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After completing their learning on Passover and Easter, the children have used watercolours to paint beautiful Seder plates which show the symbolic foods that Jewish people have to celebrate Passover. These are now proudly displayed in our classroom. Thank you to Miss Hurt whose love of art is really helping the children to develop wonderful art skills.

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Since January, our learning has been all around fractions and this week we finished by using bar models to find missing values and missing totals. There is a great, FREE website that the children can use to practise this which is attached below. They should aim to do the work in 5th Grade and head to Thinking Blocks.

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Practice addition, multiplication, fractions and algebraic reasoning with our popular math games. Discover fun learning games kids love to play.

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In English this week, we have completed our writing based on the Shaun Tan collection. "Tales from Outer Suburbia."  We used the text, " The Expedition" as our model and imagined what would be at the edge of the map.  We worked on copying a specific authorial tone to great effect and we also used colons for the first time.  In technology news, we also attempted to do live writing on Google Classroom.  The benefit of this is that I can give feedback in "live" time which really is effective at developing progress. After we had written on the Chrome Books, we then published our work in our English books, focusing on producing our very best handwriting.