2. What we`ve been learning

English 

In English, we have been reading the book Varmints. As part of our learning, we’ve been exploring the characters’ feelings and developing empathy by thinking about their experiences and emotions.

One of our writing activities involved imagining life from a Varmint’s point of view. We have written diary entries describing how the Varmints’ lives have changed and how they might be feeling.

We will be focusing next on writing a persuasive letter, which will be about keeping Beam Parklands.

Reading 

In reading, we are consolidating our skills when answering questions about a text. We have looked at retrieval questions, inference questions and summarising questions.

Maths 

In Maths this term, we are consolidating our knowledge of fractions and use of the 4 operations. We are also focusing on the relationship between decimals, fractions and percentages - 0.5, 50% and ½ are all the same.