We have started learning about measuring. Today we were learning to use a ruler to measure different lengths. We measured different lengths to make a skyline, inspired by a picture of the New York skyline. Excellent, accurate measuring was done by all!

On Friday, we had lots of fun celebrating the royal wedding. We wore red, white and blue, did a parade with our flags and crowns, played some royal party games and had some yummy, healthy, red, white and blue snacks!

Here are some examples of the phonics stations we have been doing to practise our sounds.

We had an excellent visit to Hillview Community Church. We learned all about the furniture and features of the church. Martin, the pastor, spoke to us about all the different features and we were able to ask questions. We really liked looking in to the baptismal font and seeing a video of someone being baptised.

We have been practising our common words using plasticine. We enjoyed seeing if we could spell them correctly and trying to make our letters neat.

Over the last few weeks, we have been learning about the properties of octagons, hexagons and pentagons.  In ICT, we have been learning to use different tools on the computer.  We were combining these new areas of learning in ICT.

The children set their own targets and decided that they should:

• make one or more pentagon, hexagon and octagon
• Make their shapes fancy by using different tools
• Close all their shapes properly
• Work independently (This is our new favourite word!  🙂 )

Mrs Duncan was delighted at how hard we all worked to achieve our targets.  We can now log on, load the painting software and shut down the computer with no help.  Well done everyone!

We had great fun in the snow a couple of weeks ago.  We worked in teams to create a large snow fort.  This required a lot of problem solving and collaboration.  It was wonderful to see the entire class working together to achieve their goal.

We have been very engaged with our current topic, ‘Our community.’  Part of this has involved learning about different types of homes and the type of families they might suit.  With Mrs Duncan (M,T,W) we worked in teams to correctly match different family groups to different homes.  This prompted a lot of discussion amongst our small groups.  We worked very well in our small teams.

We have been investigating the properties of hexagons, octagons and pentagons through practical activities.  We enjoyed watching funny videos about hexagons and pentagons.  You can watch them by clicking here and here.

We made our own pentagons, hexagons and octagons using a range of construction and by using straws and Plasticine.  These were quite tricky problem solving tasks and we had to persevere to get the properties of each shape right.  We also drew around 3D shapes to see which shape they made.

We particularly enjoyed tiling a variety of 2D shapes and trying to work out which ones fit together.

We have been reading Horrid Henry and have been talking about some of the features that make it a good book.  One of the key features we noticed was that the author uses a lot of alliteration.  We thought that made the story more interesting and funny.  We created our own funny alliteration names.   We are going to type these up in ICT later.