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We had been visited by Gemma, who works in Dog Trust. She told us how we can be dog smart by simply following five happy rules.

In our small world area, we now have water beads along with lots of sea animals. It was fun touching and playing with the water beads and finding out the hidden animals!

Last week we had been visited by Joe who works for Dams to Darnley Wildlife Conservation; and a member who came from the  SSPCA – an animal charity.  We have learned  lots of interesting facts about animals and how to take care of them.

Last week was our first exciting week of STEM fortnight. We had lots of visitors and we took part in different STEM activities. First we were visited by Geraldine, a volunteer from WaterAid. She told us how her organisation is raising money for providing clean, safe drinking water to some countries. We understood that how lucky we are to get clean water easily as some children have to walk 2 hours to get some water.  Our STEM fortnight was launched  by Dr Peter Hughes OBE.

Today was Pancake Day. So, first we saw the recipe of how to make pancakes. We always wash our hands before cooking. We used our measuring skills to add the right amount of ingredients. We got to taste the pancakes with butter or jam and they were delicious!

In Science, we have learned about the costal ecosystem. This week we extended our learning and investigated different food chains. We know that plants and animals are linked together by different food chains through which the energy flows in a circle. We had fun making our simple food chains!

What could be a better way to finish off the week by celebrating Valentine’s Day? First we watched the story about bishop Valentine and had a class discussion on why people actually celebrate Valentine’s Day. Thereafter, we all made cards for our dear ones.

Visitors from JP Morgan came today in our class and told us about the creating a new App contest. We can create any games we like and then a group of specialists will create the new winning App design and download it on the App Store. We are very excited to design our new App. We all have a template in our homework folders and will have to return our designs before 13th February.

In maths we worked on symmetry this week. We know what the line of symmetry is, and we know that both sides of it are same. We were asked to make our own creations on symmetry using rulers and anything we can find in our class. It was great fun! We were very imaginative and we also tried to complete symmetrical figures on paper.

This week we focused on our writing skills. We have had lots of practice on letter formation, handwriting, writing words, phrases and even writing our own stories. We’re getting good at checking our own work as well as checking our friend’s works!