The start of the term has been exciting as we plan our new project and get our new reading books and novels.  As a class, we are excited about our new class novel, The Nowhere Emporium.  So excited, that we are up to chapter 10 already!

As part of our literacy work, we have been looking at the descriptive language in the book. We have been picking out the words to help us build images of the settings and characters.  We then used Microsoft Excel to build images of the characters.  You can see some examples at the bottom.  We will continue to finish these next week.

Our new project is based upon The Caribbean and Oceans.  This week we have been learning how many islands make up the Caribbean.  We have been using Online Atlases to learn some of the names as there over 700 islands.  We also looked at part of David Attenborough’s Blue Planet video clip, which we found really interesting.

In maths, we have started a topic on measurement and length.  This week we have been looking at different units of measure and how to convert between them.  We will be moving onto Perimeter next week.

I hope everyone enjoys the long weekend!