Welcome back to term 2! I can’t believe we are on term 2 already – everyone looks so much taller after the holidays! I hope you all had a lovely time – we have had lots of stories of trips away and catching up with friends and family which sounds lovely!

We are back into the swing of things and back to our normal routine this week…

Writing

Since it is bonfire night this coming Monday we wrote list poems all about bonfire night. All of our past learning about nouns and adjectives came in very useful for our poem! Each line of our poem had to have…

adjective – noun – verb (if we were finished we then had to add on a verb!)

We wrote an example together on the board and then we had to mindmap at our tables possible adjectives, nouns and verbs that we might want to use. Our poems turned out so well and we were able to follow the

‘describing word – place/thing – doing word’ pattern.

French

We revised our learning of colours and also counting 1-10 by playing bingo this week. We are mostly confident counting 1-10 but we need to work on recognising each number and knowing that dix is 10 and deux is 2 etc. This game really got us thinking and concentrating on each individual number. Miss Dow called out the number in French and we had to tick the number on our whiteboard that we had written in digits. Once we had all of our numbers ticked, we had to shout ‘BINGO!’

Problem Solving/Science

For problem solving this week we were challenged to design and build a boat that would float using only plasticine. To be able to do this, we had to think about floating and sinking. We learned that objects do not have to be big and heavy to sink. We watched the following youtube video that went into a little bit of detail about PARTICLES and that if the particles are very close together then the object is likely to sink.

We realised that the reason a lot of our boats sunk was because:

1. the walls of the boat were too small
2. there were holes/cracks in the boat
3. the design was too complicated

We then decided that it would be a good idea to make a new boat and try to improve our first design.  Miss Dow told us that this is a problem solving strategy – to try and solve a problem, check if it works and then try to improve it. We worked in new groups and our new designs were much better with almost all of them being able to float and hold lots of marbles! (photos courtesy of Jamie)

Music

This term we are going to be focussing on Music rather than drama. This week we have been thinking about rhythm. Miss Dow showed us what a one beat note looks like (Callum knew that it was called a crotchet since he plays piano! – well done!) She also showed us what a one beat rest looks like. We practised clapping different rhythms and reading them on the board. Some of us were happy to clap one of the rhythms to the class and they had to guess what rhythm we had played.

RME

Through exploring
Bible stories, I can
describe some beliefs
Christians have about
God and Jesus.
RME 1-01a

I can talk about my
own beliefs, or express
them in other ways.
RME 1-01c

We listened to Miss Dow tell us the story of ‘The Tower of Babel’ and then we watched the following short youtube video of the story. We had really good discussions about the moral of the story and what Christians believe about God. The story taught us that we shouldn’t be greedy and that we are not better than other people – everyone is equal. We shouldn’t be selfish and Christians believe that God is the best and that we should think about him regularly. God cares about us all and not just one person.