This week, we have been learning about the Stone Age. We chose this topic ourselves after exploring the experiences and outcomes related to Social Studies.

We explored the Stone Age during our Outdoor Learning experiences. We learnt about the different types of houses within the Stone Age and compared & contrasted it to how our houses are made.

‘We were making our own Stone Age houses. We had to use natural resources/materials such as wood and mud to build because that is what the people in the Stone Age had.’ – Aria

‘I couldn’t use this for our house because it was plastic. Plastic never existed in the Stone Age.’ – Jamie

‘We built a cave. Although in the Stone Age they did not have plastic, we used it for the outside of the cave.’ – Scarlett

‘We tried to built a Stone Age house like our own houses but only using outdoor materials. We used Tyres for the doors, wood planks to support the structure and windows.’ – Lilian

‘We created a footpath using stones/pebbles for the front of the house.’ – Jessica

‘For the bell, we used a metal pot so we can hear our guests coming.’ – Charlotte

‘Our house was built with  sticks, leaves, tyres and wood. We found grass and mud and used this as a camouflage so people couldn’t find us or attack us! – Jace

‘We had to find food to survive in the wild. We found blueberries and beetroot.’ – London

In Literacy, we are working hard on our letter formation, grammar and punctuation to ensure we are forming our sentences correctly.  We have also been learning about WOW words to enhance our vocabulary.

‘Our spelling sound for the week was a-e. I have grown my words for example save became saved, saving and life-saver. I made sentences with these words too!’. – Fara

We are becoming more confident in recognising the different ways you can make the ‘ai’ sound.

To demonstrate our understanding of our reading book, we had to sort out sentences into true or false headings.

‘We read a tricky unseen text and highlighted all the WOW words or words we never heard of. We then had to write the ending of the story using our imagination.’ – Hasan

Here are some WOW words that we explored in our Library books!

‘I am practising to write common words correctly.’ – Charlie

‘I used WOW words to describe this pictures! My words were amazing, adventurous, freezing and wonderful.’ – Max

We have been learning about fractions. We are able to show an understanding of how a single item can be shared equally. We have also learnt the notation of a half and quarter! We are beginning to learn about where fractions lie on a number line.

We have also been learning about Symmetry.

‘We have made a line of symmetry. Using squared paper, we had to create symmetrical pictures. We used our imagination to create our own designs.’ – Harrison