Making 2D shapes

This is what Miss Cranmer's group worked on in Monday's lesson. It was tricky to make these 2D shapes!

This Tuesday is Shrove Tuesday

In the UK, Shrove Tuesday is also known as Pancake Day (or Pancake Tuesday to some people) because it is the one day of the year when almost everyone eats a pancake.

What is Pancake Day?

Pancake Day ( also known as Shrove Tuesday) is the last day before the period which Christians call Lent. It is traditional on this day to eat pancakes.

Why are Pancakes eaten on Shrove Tuesday?

Lent is a time of abstinence, of giving things up. So Shrove Tuesday is the last chance to indulge yourself, and to use up the foods that aren't allowed in Lent. Pancakes are eaten on this day because they contain fat, butter and eggs which were forbidden during Lent.

When is Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day)?

Shrove Tuesday is celebrated the day before Ash Wednesday and is therefore the final day before the commencement of Lent, a Christian festival leading up to Easter Sunday (Easter Day).
Shrove Tuesday always falls 47 days before Easter Sunday.

Why do Christians call the day 'Shrove Tuesday'?

The name Shrove comes from the old word "shrive" which means to confess. On Shrove Tuesday, in the Middle Ages, people used to confess their sins so that they were forgiven before the season of Lent began.

What is Shrove Tuesday?

Shrove Tuesday is a day of celebration as well as penitence, because it's the last day before Lent. Throughout the United Kingdom, and in other countries too, people indulge themselves on foods that traditionally aren't allowed during Lent. Pancakes are eaten on this day because they contain fat, butter and eggs which were forbidden during Lent.

This Wedneday is Ash Wednesday

What is Ash Wednesday?

Ash Wednesday is a Christian festival. It marks the beginning of six and a half weeks of repentance, fasting and abstinence in preparation for the most important Christian festival of Easter.

When is Ash Wednesday?

Why is it called Ash Wednesday?

Ashes are something that are left when something is burned.

For Christians, ashes are a symbol of being sorry for things they have done wrong and want to get rid of forever. It is also a reminder to them that we all come from ashes, and to ashes we all will return.

Why are ashes marked on the forehead?

For Christians, the marking on the forehead with ash marks the commitment to Jesus Christ and God. They wanted to show God that they were sorry for the wrong things they had done in the past year.

What happens on Ash Wednesday today?

Many Christians will attend a religious service where the ashes are blessed and placed on their forehead.
Christians believe this marks the physical and spiritual beginning of a personal Lent season in which 40 days of repentance will begin leading up to the celebration of Easter Sunday.

The actual moment when the forehead is marked initiates the beginning of lent for each individual person.

What are the ashes made from?

In churches the priest first burns the palm that have been kept from last year's Palm Sunday and then mixes the ashes of these crosses with holy water (which has been blessed) to make a greyish paste. When people go to church on Ash Wednesday, the priest dips his thumb in the paste and uses it to make the sign of the cross on each person's forehead. Why are last years Palm Crosses recycled?

Palm Sunday celebrates Jesus's triumphant entry into Jerusalem, so when the crosses used in the last years Palm Sunday service are converted to ashes, worshippers are reminded that defeat and crucifixion swiftly followed triumph.

What do the ashes symbolise?
Using ashes to mark the cross on the believer's forehead symbolises that through Christ's death and resurrection, all Christians can be free from sin.

Coming up in Literacy

We will be using these video clips as we continue our Visual Literacy work on Valiant.

Our Targets for next Half Term

This half term our reading targets will be:

MUST – I can find language that an author has used to make an effect.

SHOULD – I can find and talk about the language an author has used to make an effect.

COULD – I can talk about the effect words have on the reader.

This half term our writing targets will be:

MUST – I can choose interesting words from a word bank.

SHOULD – I can use lots of adjectives and verbs to add detail

COULD – I can add detail to give information about something I write about.

This half term in maths our targets will be about time:

MUST – use vocabulary related to time and be able to read the time to the nearest quarter of an hour.

SHOULD – use vocabulary related to time and be able to read the time to the nearest minute on a 12 hour digital clock and to the nearest five minutes on an analogue clock.

COULD - use vocabulary related to time and be able to read the time to the nearest minute on a 12 hour digital clock using am and pm and read the time to the nearest minute using am and pm on an analogue clock.
We will post lots of links to help but these are a nice start. Have a go!
http://nwlg.org/pages/resources/ma_num/swf/12-24Game.htmlhttp://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/StopTheClock/sthec1.htmlhttp://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/stoptheclock/sthec2.html

Happy Half Term

Have a Happy Half Term holiday everyone! Have a good break. Remember to do your reading, homeworks and learn your spellings for our sponsored spell. Try and find family members / friends to sponsor you too. Well done for all your hard work over the last half term!

Today we investigated which stand would be the most stable for our photoframe

Have a look - which design would you pick and why?