Sycamore - week 2, by Mrs Williams

Date: 16th Jan 2025 @ 1:20pm

Sycamore's Week 2

This week we have thoroughly enjoyed our maths week.  We have read the story 365 penguins (which is quite funny!) and completed some work and challenges on calanders in teams.  We also have looked at arrays and how we could organise different numbers of penguins.  We also had a TTRockstars battle in our classroom so that we could see who the top two players for Sycamore were.  These two represented our class really well during the KS2 battle.  

In science this week, we have carried out lots of experiments.  We have been loving our new topic of plants and learning about pollination and their life cycles.  We have been growing cress in different conditions and next week we will be writing up our findings of our experiment.  We had some volunteers be part of the pollination process and we acted out each part.  This helped us to remember what pollination is and what happens at each stage.  

*Check out some photos of our week in science below*

We have carried on with our work on the Iron Man this week in reading and writing.  We have been thinking about our character, The Iron Man, and how he fell from the cliff top edge.  We had a go at a shared write of him standing and then falling from the cliff edge. 

Here is our shared write that we did together: 

As he stood on the cliff top, his ears turned. Many sounds echoed around him, the squarking of the seagulls, the crashing of the waves and the whistling of the wind. Then, his head turned from left to right.   In the gusty, cold wind, the Iron Man swayed violently. He stepped off the rocky, jagged cliff edge. Down the cliff, the Iron Man tumbled, toppled and plummeted.  Boom! Clang! Clink! In the blink of an eye, he crashed onto the sharp rocks below.  Like an explosion, his body parts scattered across the entirety of the beach.

We have then written our own version for our star writes. 

Next week we have lots of new topics starting:

• In maths, we're doing multiplication and division
• In Geography we'll be making discoveries about the UK
• In French, we have been learning our numbers from 1-50 so we will be coninuing to practise these 

Sycamore - week 1, by Mrs Williams

Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 11:36am

This week we have been walking in a winter wonderland! 

Below are some images of the snowy school from our classroom windows! 

We have made a great start to week 1 of our spring term.  

In writing and reading we have been looking at the book, The Iron Man. We have enjoyed exploring the start of the story and thinking about how we could use this to start our own stories.  We will be doing this over the next three weeks and by the end of those three weeks, we will have our own story openers! We are becoming fabulous authors in Sycamore class.  📝✏️📝

In science, we have started our new topic of plants, even though it isn't the best weather to be growing plants yet! 🪻🌸🌺🌻 We have set up our own experiments to see the conditions in which plants grow- we will be keeping our eye on these over the next few weeks to see what happens to the seeds. 

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Maths has been great this week as we have been learning about area and perimeter.  Below are some images of us having a go at creating shapes with different areas. 

Have a look at some of the images of our work/week below.  

Next week is going to be just as fun! 🥳

We will be continuing our plants topic looking at pollination and seed dispersal. It's our maths week next week where we will be having a TTRockstars battle and learning about maths through stories.