We really enjoyed our 3 way times table work.  We really liked learning new skills in numeracy.  We also looked at ‘smile’ multiplication and Aalayha felt it as easy to understand.  We were doing vertical multiplication and it was good because we could do loads of times table sums.

 

The spelling test was fun on Friday after Assembly.  Darren says he likes to be challenged and tested on things he has learnt in class.  The words this week were Autumn themed and some of us really liked this.  Actually, most of the children said they liked to be challenged with their test.  One task we used to get a deeper learning to our words was to complete a dictionary challenge.  A lot of us liked to do that.

 

In skiing we like to learn new skills in sports we haven’t tried before. This was the 6th week of skiing and everyone has done so well.  Some people are working on stopping effectively and some people can now turn.  Skylar was super impressed that she only fell once and she is making huge improvements – more than she thought she could do!

 

In IDL we were investigating shoe grips. We had a bit of paper and we had a shoe, we used a pastel to rub on the sole of the shoe so that you made a print.  This print told us who had the highest friction and who had the least amount of friction on their shoes.  If you had more friction we wouldn’t slip and it would be stickier on the ground.  Matthew thought it was cool to see who had the most grip on their shoe.

 

Today for our HWB – we made a poster about Friendships. Previously in Circle Time we had chatted about changing friendships – maybe we had moved or stopped a club.  Our poster was to show how to: mend a friendship, build a new relationship and/or what to do if you are growing apart. Caden thought making the poster was fun because he likes doing Art.

 

In STEM the week before was made compasses out of magnetising a paper clip and floating it on a leaf in a bowl of water.  All of our groups were successful.  Then we dismantled our compass, went outside, rebuilt them and tried to find north again.  We were all super at this.

Have a lovely weekend everyone! 1 week to go before our holidays!