Yesterday we had an amazing day! First thing we watched a stage production of Sleeping Beauty. Then we had a visit from Aisling Fowler a newly published author.
In the afternoon we had our mixed sports and it was loads of fun too!
The view from our classroom this afternoon.
Yesterday we were revisiting co-ordinates, grid references and compasses. To support and reinforce our learning we each designed a treasure map.
Today we used our maps in pairs to challenge each other to find places on our maps and to create directions using our positional language knowledge.
Reading skills have been a big focus for us this year and today we put our skills to the test by taking part in a quick on the draw activity.
The children got to choose the questions relating to their text that they wished to answer and the order they would like to answer them in.
The feedback from the children included:
There was a real buzz of excitement in the classroom!
Over the last couple of weeks we have been learning about and applying the reading skills of skimming and scanning.
Skimming is reading something quickly to find the main idea.
Scanning is reading something quickly to find a specific piece of information.
Today we used these skills to explore a text on magnets, combining our new reading skill with learning about science.
In 4.14 we greatly enjoy improving our handwriting. The jotters we use have lines in them that show us the correct sizes for both lower case and upper case letters. It is exciting learning lots of new joins this year!
