In Literacy, we have been focusing on writing a diary entry for a Young Writers competition the children are excited to enter. We have explored lots of different ideas and have been working very hard to plan and write an amazing diary entry. The children’s imaginations have run wild and they have been very creative! We have worked hard to up-level our sentences to include adjectives to make our writing interesting to the reader.

We continue to learn a new spelling rule each week and practise this through our spelling homework and active spelling activities in class.

The children’s fluency in reading has continued to improve. We have been working on our comprehension skills to dig deeper on our understanding of what we have read. You can continue to use the comprehension cards at home to support this.

 

Over the last 2 weeks in Maths, we finished our topic on Multiplication and moved onto Division. So far, we have learned about dividing by 2, 3, 5 and 10. We have used cubes and Numicon to support our learning. With Miss Davie, the children have been learning about Information Handling, looking at different charts and graphs.

In Health and Wellbeing, we are focussing on Safety. We have discussed safety around medicines and made posters to show what we learned about safe medicine use. We have considered different scenarios, and how safe or unsafe they would make us feel. We continue to engage in daily mindfulness activities.

The children are loving our Habitats topic! We have explored Woodland, Ocean and Rainforest habitats to far. We went for a walk in the local woods to spot some plants and animals we learned about in the classroom. We used the iPads to research different Ocean Animals. We used the ‘Jigsaw Learning’ method to learn about Rainforests – each group were given a different aspect of the Rainforest to research and create a poster on. The children then became the teacher and taught their peers about what they learned. Each group gave feedback to one another – this was a big hit!