Sock dolls/puppets
Through our skills academy we have been developing our fine motor skills and creativity through sewing and making sock dolls. We built on our previous experience creating animal soft toys and through discussion we were able to demonstrate the diverse background represented in our school and class. We selected and used a range of materials to create our own unique designs. We are delighted with how they have turned out and have shared some photos of them below.
We had to use two socks and start by making a hood,mask or hat by cutting off the heel of the sock and a little bit of the sock. Then we cut off a large piece of sock where your toes go and with that piece we created the legs. We had to stuff it and sow it and use a skin coloured sock to create the face.
Maths
We have been developing our knowledge of compass points, directions and following routes. We came up with some top tips to help us rememeber the order of the compass points using a mnemonic like Never Eat Soggy Waffles and discussed ways to help avoid confusion when making left and right turns.
Writing
In writing this week we have been continuing to learn how to use speech marks correctly to show a conversation between two people or characters. We had to remember to take a new line each time a new/different charater spoke, use capital letters at the start of speech and punctuation at the end of speech and put speech marks around the words each person or character says. Here is an example we came up with below
“How was your day?” Said Samantha
“Good,” said Lewis ”How was yours?”
“Not so good, so far,” mumbled Samantha
“Why?”
“My cat’s sick.”
“Oh no.”
“I hope he’s alright.”
We also got a letter from the author Lindsay Littleson who has written a childrens novel about Titanic called The Titanic Detective Agency. She shared with us information about how she came up with her ideas by researching some of the real children who were on board Titanic on it’s maiden voyage. We also compared life in 1912 to life today to get a better understanding of what it would of been like for passengers onboard the ship.
In art with P5A’S new teacher Miss Bishop we have been developing our drawing skills, we drew detailed self potraits and looked at sketching and shading techniques.
P.E.
This week we took part in the Daily Mile and played rounders in the muga. We tied 8-8 and it was a very fast paced exciting game! We had lots of full catches and home runs and it was a lot of fun.
