**Star of the Week**

Well done to James Benson  who was awarded star of the week for last week.  James received star of the week for always working hard and completing his tasks to a high standard. Well done, James! 🙂

French

We have been continuing to learn the months of the year in French this week. We have been using this song to help us learn them and we completed some tasks where we had to match the English to the French and also practise writing the French months.

Maths

We have been continuing to work on measure and have been learning about weight this week. The Pentagons have been converting between g and kg and cm and m and ordering big measurements.

The Triangles,  Semi-Circles and Squares have been understanding what a kilogram is. We passed around a kilogram weight and were all very surprised by how heavy it was! We then had to think of objects in the classroom that we thought would weigh around 1kg. We tested this out using the balancing scales.

We have  been estimating weights of objects and choosing the most appropriate answer. If possible, we then tested our estimations using the scales.

Science

We have started a mini science topic that we will be working on throughout most of this term. Our topic is the human body. We started this week by thinking about the skeleton. We discussed our prior knowledge to begin with. We then used the following website to learn about the position of the bones and to raise our awareness of their proper names.

http://www.abcya.com/skeletal_system.htm

We were all very excited and keen to learn about the skeleton and were very enthusiastic. We have a life-size skeleton in class at the moment which we decided to call Mr Bones (although we’re not sure if it’s a girl or boy!) Our task was to work as a group to try and label as many bones of the body as we could.

Our next task was to cut out a jumbled skeleton and join it back together again in the correct order using split pins. We then used our mini skeletons to work with a partner and test each other about some of the names of the bones and where we would find them on our skeletons.

Topic

We all had another piece of a puzzle and had to find our groups to find out what our new topic was going to be and our new topic is..

CASTLES!

Again, we discussed our prior knowledge and told Miss Dow any questions or things we would like to do in our new topic and she made a note of our suggestions. Our topic is going to focus on timelines, using evidence and castles in general before having a specific focus on local castles.

Writing

Miss Dow asked us to write a letter of complaint to Dominos. We had to imagine some issues that we could have with a delivery/pizza and use facts to describe this in our letter. We had to try and explain how we were feeling and use strong language to show how unhappy we were. We were all very keen to share our completed letters of complaint by reading them to the class.

Spelling

We were revising some of our previous sounds this week and working as an individual, pair or group to try and write down words that used a given sound. We used whiteboards to write down our answers.