Lots of children came to school in wellies or snow boots and we all changed into our gym shoes in class, so that we didn’t put snow on our carpet. (We play and sit on it, so it wouldn’t be too good if it was wet!) We put a peg on our wellies to keep them together. It is good to wear boots to go out and play in the snow. Feet get cold and wet in shoes.
We learned how to use tape measures so that we could measure various items around the room. Some children then chose to measure each other! We have to remember to start at 0 and make certain that the tape measure is straight and not buckled up. We got good results.
We measured our feet using a ruler. We took off our shoes (and giggled a lot!) and drew round our shoes. We then measured from the tip of the top to the bottom, using a ruler in centimetres.
Our challenge was to write to Santa and only ask for two things – presuming that we had been good all year! Some people managed to sneak in three requests and some only wanted to ask for one particular thing.
The letters are currently in quarantine before going home this week.
Paul Cornu invented the first flying helicopter. It didn’t travel very far and it was very dangerous. In 1939, Igor Sikorsky developed the helicopter and his design was used in WW2.
We were very excited to make our own helicopters and we flew them first in class, then we flew them from the balcony in the Street. they flew really well. A helicopter template is on Google Classroom for the children to make and fly at home.
We go on our lovely new pitch and do our Daily Mile. Some people walk and others race round. Mrs Arbuckle walks fast! We are all wrapped up and get big drinks of water afterwards. It is so good for us to get fresh air.
We had the ultraviolet lightbox in class today to see how clean our hands are. we had just washed them with soap, but we could still see the white marks on our skin and nails to show where the germs still were.
When we were allowed to use our PE hall before Lockdown, we learned about team work by creating letters of the alphabet in our groups and cooperating with one another. It is a life skill. We have been learning about capital letters in class and we attempted to make them, using the shapes we created with our bodies.
We have been looking at the properties of 3D Shapes. We can describe each of the shapes using face, corner and edge. We enjoy building with our 3D shapes as we learn.
We have been learning to use rulers to measure. It is important to know where to start measuring from on the ruler to make certain that the measurement is correct. It is a life skill. We use “cm” (centimetre) when we write a measurement, eg 24cm.
We measured lines in the tuff tray and we measured our feet by drawing round our shoes and measuring them from toe to heel.
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