This week we started our new topic! Defending Democracy. Mrs Rasul played a little joke on everyone and asked us to vote for what we would like to do for P.E. next week. Once we had our choices on a post – it note she only collected in the votes from the girls. This made the boys a little angry and they thought it was unfair… until Mrs Rasul told us all that we are going to learn about a time when women were not allowed to vote and the suffragettes. It was a fun way to start a new topic.

Other learning this week includes:

Research for suffragettes versus suffragists

We are going to work in pairs to create comparison posters. So this week we completed some research about both organisations and found key information about both. We have started our posters on Canva and will continue them next week.

Symmetry

We had a look at symmetry in more complex shapes and how to identify lines of symmetry.

Multiculturalism 

We explored work of Sarah Kwan. She combines Scottish and Chinese culture to create some lovely art. This week we planned our own art projects which will combine the 2 cultures. Next week we will work on turning these into masterpieces!

What an icy, cold week it has been. And what a lovely way to end, with the house spirit afternoon! Here are a few of the things we have learned this week:

Famous Mathematicians

This week we all researched different mathematicians and how they have impacted the world with their discoveries. This was really interesting as we learned where some of our important maths concepts are used in todays inventions. After researching about the mathematician of our choice we created PowerPoints and some of us chose to make posters.

Newspaper Report writing

We have started our writing topic on newspaper reports. We had a chance to read some different articles from ‘The Happy News’ and looked closely at the opening paragraphs. We were finding the 5 Ws (Who, When, Where, What, Why) Then we had a go at writing our own first paragraph of a newspaper.

Yoga

Since it was super icy and the muga and woodland area was not safe this morning, we decided to do some yoga in the class. This was nice and relaxing. We then ended it with some Just Dance and Bollywood.

Happy new year! We have had a great first week back and very busy indeed.

Here is a little snippet of what we have been doing:

New books – The Tempest, The House Across the Quaggy, Alice in Wonderland

We all got new books. We are reading the house across the quaggy which is about 3 kids finding out information about a big old house.

Area of triangles

The whole class learned how to find the area of a right angled triangle. The formula is 1/2 of L x B.

Northern Lights

First we did comprehension on Northern Light and then in the afternoon we did a calendar art on Northern Lights.

Gymnastics

The class did a lot of flexible stretches in Gymnastics and then a lot of people attempted a headstand or a handstand.

Water benefits and posters

We learned about the importance of water and then did a poster on why you should drink water. Some of the benefits are better hair, lips, good hear, joints lubricated and better mood.

STEM Kapla challenge

We did a STEM  challenge with our new Science and Spanish teacher Mr. Wilson where we had to make a track for a toy car.

Writing – What I didn’t do in my holiday

We wrote a wonderful recount on a fiction holiday that you would have gone or been on. Everybody had a lot of fun.