This week some of the children have shared their learning about their chosen country. We were fascinated to hear about lion tamarins, poison dart frogs, football and trains in Brazil, the Tokyo Tower and … square watermelons in Japan! Also, the important festival of Eid and the iconic Sydney Opera House amongst others.
We have been improving our typing skills during ICT. At first, some of us found it tricky to find some of the letters on the keyboard, but we have been learning to use the home keys and our speed and accuracy have been improving. We’ll use these new skills to do some writing soon!
As part of topical science learning, P4.20 learned about the importance of proper handwashing procedures. We used a special cream that let us so tiny particles on our hands under a black light.
We then followed the instructions on the handwashing posters and checked to see if we’d managed to wash them correctly. It was amazing how easily small particles can get stuck in the tiny creases on our hands!
P4.20 have been busy learning about Diwali – the festival of light – then we made some colourful Diwali lanterns. 
This week we have been celebrating Book Week. We launched “Read of the Week” and Amirah wrote an excellent book review on “Power to the Princess” – well done!
We have been continuing with fraction work – finding Lego fractions and making fraction lines!
We have also done some fantastic art linked to Literacy and Maths for Remembrance and Guy Fawkes – don’t our poppies and fireworks look great!
The children have all settled into P4 very well and are enjoying spending time with their classmates after such a long time away from school. We will aim to post updates of what we are doing in class regularly. Here are some examples of our learning so far.
As part of Health & Wellbeing, we read ‘Silly Billy’ by Anthony Browne, discussed how it helps to talk about our worries with someone we trust, then made Guatemalan worry dolls and ninjas!
We also talked about who we were “under the mask” and how everyone is different with different qualities. We then made masked selfies!
Together, we created our class charter, after learning about the difference between needs and wants, and Children’s Rights.
We started off our “Around the World” topic with a look at Pablo the banana’s journey, all the way from Costa Rica to our local supermarket. We then discovered some of the food we eat has travelled thousands of miles from places like South Africa and Thailand.
We had lots of fun for Maths Week. We researched our chosen mathematician and created multiplication flowers to help us learn our tables. We discovered hidden shapes and patterns in multiplication tables and used our measuring skills to create dream jars after reading about them in the BFG. We also did Pixel Art and parabolic curve art and learned another outdoor maths game using grid references.
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