The children enjoyed watching various talent show performances this week. 3.9 is certainly bursting with talent and it was a real treat to watch the children dance, draw, sing and perform.
In French we were building our confidence when talking about our family with a focus on describing who we live with, our own name and our age.
The children played a matching game with a set of cards and had to identify the written French vocab to the picture of the family member.
A fantastic week in 3.9! We made the most of the dry periods and went to the forest to do some tree identification. We used tree identification guides to help us and it was a very successful activity! This type of outdoor learning experience allows us to apply our reading skills and also other Metaskills/soft skills like collaboration, cooperation, team-work, listening to others and observation.
The children were able to identify English oak, beech, goat willow, common hawthorns and wild cherry trees. We use the leaves, bark and tree shape and size to help us.
We also did some leaf printing, which at first we tried with air drying clay, but this wasn’t very successful as the hot sun dried it out very quickly. Using plasticine was much more successful as you can see below. This allowed us to see the veins in the leaves and differentiate between different types of leaves.
In numeracy we have been focussing on improving our knowledge of our times tables.
What a fantastic week in 3.9! The children loved sports day and were so pleased that the weather stayed dry.
In maths we have been learning about fractions and using bar models to identify the fraction of a quantity.
In reading we have been learning about cause and effect. We have been learning about how to identify this in a text. We created our own success criteria to help us.
