On Monday we were lucky enough to have a visit from Joe from North Yorkshire Cricket. We played a really fun warm up game then he led us in a cricket lesson where we practised our batting and fielding skills. 

In English this week we have been practising using inverted commas to show speech. We have a very catchy song to help us to remember how to use the punctuation correctly! During this lesson, we explored some alternative words for 'said' that we can use to make our writing more exciting and to give our readers more information. Keaton says, "It was quite tricky thinking up words that would go well in my sentence." We worked together as a class to generate a wide range of words. Some of our favourites are grumbled, murmured, sighed, whimpered and bellowed! We created a conversation between two of the characters from 'Arthur and the Golden Rope'. We will be using these skills when we write our final story. 

We are coming to the end of our Fractions unit in Maths. It has been a very popular unit and the children have really impressed us with their growing understanding. Melissa thought, "It's easier when it's on a number line." but Alexsandra disagrees, saying "I think it's easier to understand when it's on a bar model." This is one of the reasons we do our learning in lots of different ways!

In Learning Means the World, we discovered some very worrying facts about the rainforests and the ways in which they are under threat, such as deforestation. We found out some of the ways this could affect our world and, more importantly, some of the things we can all do to help to protect them. "The rainforests could disappear if we keep cutting down trees." warns Tymur. Charlotte tells us, "I thought it was scary that the rainforests could be gone in 35 years." and Keaton says he is feeling angry about it but also determined to protect them.

Our RE lesson this week was all about the Hindu beliefs around the cycle of life and death. We thought about the cycles of life that we see around us in nature and how these ideas link to the Hindu deities of the Trimurti that represent Creation, Protection and Transformation and the way that, when something ends, it is simply making way for something new.