We worked together on the blog as a class. These are the highlights from the week that we wanted to share!
The most exciting news of the week is, of course, The Grinch has made a visit to Busby Primary and made a big mess of our classroom! He wrapped our tree and our board in Christmas paper, upturned our chairs and flung loo roll over all of our lovely Christmas lights.
This is the mess I encountered when I opened the classroom door this morning!! Thankfully Jingle, our Elf, was left un-Grinched!
Working as a team, we managed to get the classroom back to all of it’s festive glory! You can see our finalised door design below.
We have now finished our topic on ‘The Oceans’. Over the last few weeks we have been exploring the Arctic Ocean and have been learning about how animals stay warm in sub-zero temperatures. Last week, we conducted a science experiment investigating different insulating materials along with a blubber substitute (coconut oil) to work out how blubber helps to keep animals warm in an arctic environment (A basin with ice in it).
This week, we have been continuing with quantitative and qualitative adverbs. We played a drama game where we had to guess the adverb from the children’s actions and decide whether it was a ‘how, where, when, how much or how often’ kind of adverb. We were also sorting adverbs using actions to help us identify them within different festive-themed sentences.
In reading skills, we have been identifying the main idea of a text by examining an unseen piece of writing about planting trees. We have also been practising how to decode an unfamiliar word by looking for clues within a sentence.
In art, we have been making some paper craft wreaths for our front doors and decorating the classroom with wonderful 3D snowflakes! We have also started an abstract Arctic oil-pastel drawing, which we will complete next week. With Mrs Houston, we painted some lovely festive snow scenes using different techniques to depict light.
We have spent time creating our lovely, ‘Busby Shines Bright’ lanterns to place on our doorsteps tomorrow night and light up the streets of Busby! We used a layered tissue paper effect to give the impression of a stained-glass window.
In French, we have now finished our topic on introductions and have been practising different key phrases and questions we can use to introduce ourselves with! We have been practising answering questions using hot-seating games and we were even able to write a whole paragraph completely in French, introducing ourselves!
