Mr Atkinson’s comment:
This is the last week of homework being issued and I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you for supporting with this over the year. I am also vey much looking forward to the Solo-Talks next week which the pupils have been preparing. Jonathan Hull also visited us to teach the class about some new ways to use the accessibility features on the Chromebooks and iPads to support Literacy learning.
Literacy and English
For our second instructional writing lesson we created a list of steps for how to build a habitat or den for an animal or creature of our choosing. To help us achieve this we discussed how we built shelters and bugs hotels in our outdoor session a couple of weeks ago. To improve our instructions we used more time openers, wrote the quantities of some items and also included imperative verbs and some adverbs.
Numeracy and Maths
We have explored and learned about lots of concepts this week! We have discovered how to draw shapes with specific areas and perimeters and with Miss Campbell we worked on accurately creating bar graphs. We also discussed which devices and unit of measurements are needed for different types of quantities and learned how to read train timetables and calendars. Mr Atkinson has also been teaching us different Mental Maths strategies to help us to reach an answer more quickly.
Health and Wellbeing
As part of Neurodiversity Week some of us took part in presenting to other classes and we also learned about the different types of neurodiversity by researching facts about them and playing a dice game to share our new knowledge with each other.
In our Substance Misuse lesson we discussed how smoking can harm and damage the body. Afterwards we labelled parts of body and wrote about the impact smoking has on key organs. We also discovered what cigarettes are made from which helped us to understanding how harmful they can be. We also looked at how the packaging is used to warn people of the dangers and then we tried creating our own packets.
We also completed our gymnastic series of lessons by performing with background music playing a sequence of jumps, rolls and balances to the entire class!
Outdoor Learning
We created bird feeders by putting cereal onto a piece of string and tying to form a ring. Then we went outside a placed them around the woodland area and next week we are going to go back and check them.
IDL – Victorians
Having worked so hard to learn how to write scripts when we recreated the story of Alice in Wonderland, we thought it would be a good idea to apply these skills to create a performance about the life of a Victorian child. First we wrote a script and stage directions by using our knowledge of the Victorian era and then we acted out the scene in front of the class. It was brilliant to watch what it was like for a child attending school, working in a mine or being a chimney sweep!
