In maths, we are learning how to collect and organise data, display the information in a graph and interpret information from the graph.
Last week, as part of our “Around our School” topic, we collected data about how we had travelled to school. We organised the information in a table and used this to produce graphs. We learned that graphs have a title, labels and a scale.
We used the same information in our ICT lessons to create a graph.
We have been working on different kinds on graphs this week and are becoming more independent in organising our information and answering questions about it.
Some of us worked on Snowman graphs.
Snowman parts
We had to count how many different part of the snowman we had and show the number with tally marks in a table.
Today the whole school took part in a sponsored zumbathon. It ws arranged by the Parent Council to raise funds for the school.
Each class went to the hall at an allotted time to take part in half an hour of zumba. Mrs Cranston, our P.E. teacher took the morning groups and Zumba Instructor Clare took the afternoon groups.
We were the last group of the day, together with the P2/3 class.
It was great fun. We are looking forward to seeing how much money we have raised next week.
We are looking at different kinds of houses as part of our “Around our School” topic.
Here are some houses of our own that we made using paper lunch bags. The Superstars added lots of their own details to mke each one unique. They look fantastic!
We have been learning about bats this month and doing all sorts of bat based literacy, maths and art activities.
The Superstars read the book “Stellaluna” by Janell Cannon. We discussed what we had learned about bats from the book and made a venn diagram of the similarities and differences between bats and birds.
Our class watched a powerpoint about real bats and have started to learn about some of the features of non-fiction texts.
We also watched a short animated film called “Nightshift.” It is about a bat who can’t sleep during the day because some hungry baby birds, who live in the same tree, are making too much noise. We made some predictions about the ending but it wasn’t what we expected!!!
We used our literacy keys, Christopher Character and Sally Setting, to create a character called Fat Bat and then describe the cave where it lives. Mrs Stewart loved reading about Fat Bat’s creepy cave.
Robert's storyEthan's storyMirren's story
We made up some bat word problems of our own in maths for addition and subtraction. We also made some symmetry bats in our ICT lessons.
In art, we painted these lovely bat silhouettes against a sunset.
Whilst learning about bats, we also came across this video about bats and echolocation.
