Month: March 2020

Alfie is our latest Star of the Week due to his eagerness to assist both peers and teaching staff. He is incredibly proactive and notes when assistance is needed. Keeep up the amazing progress, Alfie!

 

Yesterday we had the pleasure of having the amazing Victoria Williamson visit our class to talk to the children about the main ingredients of a successful story. Her latest novel involves experiments and we even got to replicate one!

This week the Cuboid group were exploring the properties of a range of 3D shapes. We looked particularly at the difference between prisms add pyramids. We also identified patters in the numbers of faces and corners etc.

The Cube group were given the task of selecting an area of mathematics that has helped shaped advancements in the world around us and enhanced our lives. They then presented to the class!

Today we received our World Book Day books and got started reading right away!

The Cuboid maths group have been working on the concept of volume. They finished the unit of study by progressing onto finding the volume of some challenging compound shapes. Why not ask your child to measure, then calculate the volume of some cubes and cuboids at home?

Miss Mac

Here are some finished front covers after the children had listened the mystery ‘wrapped book.’ Can you guess what book they listened to? 🙂

Today we used a mystery ‘wrapped book’ to pique the childrens’ interests and to show them that you certainly can’t judge a book by its cover. I look forward to seeing the childrens’ ideas for the front cover and title, as well as their continuations of the story during writing time tomorrow.

We were really excited to take the next step in our journey to St. Luke’s yesterday. Mr Toal was able to show us the difference in the schedules between our two schools and answered many of or questions. We received transition booklets that we’ll continue to work on. It will help us reflect on our feelings as we move through the next months.

We received a great input on Oral Hygiene from a dental nurse today. It gave us lots to think about and gave us more information so that we can now make better decisions. One thing we decided that we can implement in class is to avoid bringing diluting juice in our water bottles.

Emma was selected as our latest Star of the Week due to the high standards she sets across the curriculum. The other children pointed out her qualities in their comments! Emma said she is proud that she always gives 100%. Well done, Emma!