Month: March 2019

We have been doing some work on friendship. We discussed the qualities of a good friend and thought of these- a good friend is kind, honest, trustworthy, someone who you play with lots but not always, not bossy, doesn’t make fun of others for being different, has lots of fun, doesn’t talk  back, treats others as they would want to be treated… we’re lucky in P4B as this describes us really well!

We watched this video all about friendship soup and the ingredients for a friend:

https://youtu.be/H7w7yXkJTu 

We discussed what we would do in different scenarios and how we can be a good friend to others, for example if someone didn’t have anyone to play with at break time, or was being called names.

Finally we created our own “friendship flowers”. We drew a picture of ourselves in the centre, then passed the flowers around the class and wrote something we liked about the other person on everyone else’s work. There were lots of lovely compliments and smiles being shared.

Here are some examples of our work:

For writing this week, we listened to the beginning of a Viking saga. Sagas were stories Vikings told one another, mainly about gods and goddesses like Thor, Odin and Freyja. We heard the beginning of the saga “Freyja and the goblins” and then wrote our own middles and ends to the story.

Our work was really exciting. We showed off some of the amazing vocabulary we’ve been working on, used connectives and speech marks. Some work included tales of terrifying skeletons approaching Freyja in a cave, in some stories the goblins were friendly and helped Freyja make new jewellery, in others ninjas appeared to help the goddess!

Have a look at the clip below and see what you think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Vtet0-Jfs

As part of our Vikings topic, we had a great time creating our own Viking shields. We learnt that shields were made from wood, with parts attached using metal rivets and they were decorated by the warriors themselves. We noticed that traditionally only one or two colours were used and the shields featured bold patterns with simple, straight lines.

Here we are  hard at work.

And here are the final results!