The magpies had a challenge in our grammar session today to write a sentence that was worthy of our Magpie blog! They were learning to make their sentences longer and more interesting using subordinating conjunctions (before, as, although, because, where, when, while, unless, since, until).
Here are the best ones so far (can you write any more Magpies and put them in the comments box?) They will also tell you a little bit more about what we have been learning about in Rowdy Romans! We made a turtle formation until it was play time. We had a debate outside about Roman soldiers although it was windy. I like Rowdy Romans because we have made mosaics. The Romans washed in baths although it was disgusting and dirty.
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Today in Maths we were learning how to subtract when you must exchange one hundred for ten tens. We worked out that when taking away 135 from 608 you start by taking away the ones (8-3=5). Then you come to take away the tens (0-3) and you must exchange 1 hundred for 10 tens and work out 10-3. Finish by taking away 100 from 500 to make 608-135 = 473. The children thought that using place value counters would be an excellent way to work out this subtraction so today we learnt how to use them effectively. At first we found this difficult but we did it together as a class and then more independently and some of us became confident using the counters to find the correct answer. Here we are practising our subtraction skills with the counters. We came up with a few golden rules to help us use the place value counters well in any situation:
The Magpies have been learning about shadows in Science so that they could write and perform their own shadow puppet show with Roman characters. Can you remember how we define a shadow Magpies? We had a challenge in this lesson to create shadows that are different sizes by moving our object closer or further away from the light source. We really enjoyed watching each other's puppet shows and recognising some familiar Roman characters like Boudicca! The Magpies always look forward to French and love hearing real French children sing songs or introduce themselves. This week we have been learning how to pronounce and write the colours in French. Here we are practising writing the colours in different ways.
In English we have been learning about how writer's create feeling in poems. We learnt to perform the poem 'Arundel swimming pool' by Robert Hull. After learning our lines, we performed the poem and then thought carefully about our performance while watching the video! The children asked themselves, did I change my voice to show feeling? Did I speak loudly and clearly and smile at the audience? Then we performed the poem again and created another video. When we watched it back we could see how we had improved. Can you remember what the poem was about children? Comment below if you can! Here are some images of us performing the poem.
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