With snow threatening to appear and black ice refusing to melt quickly, February, with all its 29 days (2020 is a leap year don’t you know), is finally over and hopefully, fingers crossed, the poor weather goes with it.

This week in writing we looked at how to write instructions, and tying in with our China topic, we looked at how to make a Chinese Chow Mein. We used time openers and imperative (bossy) verbs to write our recipe for a classic dish.

Sticking with China, we revisited our Health and Wellbeing topic from last term of positive thinking and used the Chromebooks to research positive words like Joy or Peace and found the Chinese characters for these words. In Art we then used paintbrushes, black paint and long brush strokes to paint these symbols to decorate our class and topic wall.

With Read Aloud week, we have been spending 20 minutes each day reading books and even took a trip to the nursery to read with the children there. It was great fun interacting with the younger pupils and sharing an important skill with them.

This week we also continued our improvisation focus in Drama, creating scenarios for each other to act completely in the moment and unscripted. It was a lot of fun.

‘Till next week.

P5D