We have been continuing with our Shape topic. This week, we began to explore 3D shapes, and how they relate to their 2D equivalents. Pupils are learning how to draw 3D shapes – we might have some future architects in our class!
Our new Maths topic, exploring Shape began this week. We learned about the term vertice, which is another name for the corners of a shape. We identified how many sides and vertices, a variety of 2D shapes have.
This week, our PE learning focused on Hockey. We have been developing our skills in dribbling, passing and shooting.
Today, we were learning about Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Light. We discovered that it celebrates Lakshmi (the goddess of wealth) and Ganesha (the god of wisdom). These celebrations include food, music, fireworks and decorating your house with patterns called rangoli. We created our own colourful rangoli in class.
This term, football has been our focus during PE. We have developed our skills in dribbling, passing and shooting. Today we played a 4 team ‘corners’ match. There was some fantastic skills on display, some great goals, and lots of sweaty faces by the end!
Inspired by the incoming weather storm, we explored the water cycle, and how rain is formed, as part of our Science learning. We replicated the four stages of the water cycle, using water, shaving foam and food colouring to create our own mini rain showers.
We then recorded our experiments by drawing a labelled diagram in our Science jotters.
Today, we continued with our work in Symmetry, incorporating play-based learning to create symmetrical buildings using wooden blocks and Lego. We utilised ICT to spot symmetrical patterns, played sorting games and created our own symmetrical drawings.
As part of our Symmetry numeracy topic, we have been learning to identify shapes which have at least one line of symmetry. We went on a scavenger hunt in the school’s playground, where we found a variety of different symmetrical shapes, including benches, drain covers, the school roof and even pine cones and traffic cones!
Pupils used their clipboards to sketch and then label their findings.
