Would you like to join the Roman Army? Most of the children certainly would, having learned about ‘persuasive language’ in an advert for new recruits! We identified features of this genre which are – emotive language, alliteration, facts, opinion, rule of three and rhetorical questions. See if your child can give you an example of these aspects of persuasive language.

This week we moved on to subtraction. The children have been practising writing column subtraction, being very careful to record accurately all of their operations. We have also been using ‘exchange’ methods when there aren’t enough in a ones, tens or hundreds column to carry out the calculation.

We have been learning the 11 x tables this week and have recorded them in our blue books. Please make sure these come in to school each day in your child’s backpack. Here are some useful websites to help make learning fun! Remember to help your child to do the TT Rockstars challenge this week!

Daily Ten (click through to level 4 multiplication and try the mixed table activities)

TT Rockstars (help your child to log on for 10 minutes, maybe three or four times a week)

Carole Vorderman’s website has some great games too! The mathsfactory.com is here.

This week, we have been studying the short ‘e’ sound and all its representations. The children have a sticker in their Spelling Journals but here are the words for this week: 

many, mention, again, breath, friend, exercise, extreme, whether, weather, possession 

Remember, Tracey’s group do not have to learn the class spellings.

Not this week!

This week we met Boudicca, queen of the Iceni tribe!  The Romans also arrived and we explored the many reasons why they would want to invade Briton – can your child tell you what they were?  The children then drew their own timelines for the occupation and are looking forward to finding out lots of new facts about those historical times after half term!