In Science we have been investigating igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks and find out what they are used for in people's everyday lives. While some rocks can look spectacular, with amazing colors and fantastic shapes, most simply look like, well rocks. But a plain ordinary rock can tell an important story, if you know what to look for.

In Guided Reading we have been reading Charlie ad the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. It is  a story about a boy called Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka, the most popular inventor in the world, who is opening the gates of his amazing chocolate factory to five lucky children. It's a prize of a lifetime! Charlie needs just one golden ticket, and here the adventure begins...

Next we are reading 'The Creakers' by Tom Fletcher...

One day, our heroine Lucy Dungston wakes up to find all the adults in her town have completely disappeared. While most of the other kids run wild, Lucy’s mind gets whirring on what’s really happened, and how she can get them back. Her own father mysteriously vanished a few months before, so she has already had a bit of a head start.

The investigations begin under her very own bed, after Lucy hears suspicious and creepy noises and discovers every child’s worst nightmare: monsters under the bed... AKA The Creakers.

In English we have been reading about non-chronological sport reports.

Looking at the sports can give us a detailed insight of what a particular sport might be,

We have been passionate about sports and here are some examples. 

Dinosaurs and all that rubbish

by Michael Foreman

They're stomping and stamping all over the place. Children will love finding out how the dinosaurs are trying to save planet earth from pollution.

I'll Take you to Mrs Cole

By Michael Foreman

A touching story about a young boy who overcomes his fear of a neighbour and her family and makes many new friends.

The Day I Swapped my Dad for two Goldfish

By Neil Gaiman

What is you wanted your best friends two goldfish so much you would swap anything for them, even your dad?

A hilarious adventure trailing a brother and sister as they desperately seek to find their dad who, it turns out, had been swapped bot just once but many times over. Where on earth could he be and where will this unique and wonderfully funny story end?

Lyfta

We use the Lyfta articles when we are exploring the story worlds to help us undertstand what life is like there. When we used The Camel's Companion world during our science lessons - which were all about some animals having skeletons and muscles - we looked at the article called Curious Camels.