This week in Science we have been learning about the heart and the lungs and their functions in the body. In Literacy, we wrote a leaflet to show our findings to others. We also enjoyed sharing our learning about the digestive system with families today. We used a fork, a plastic bag, orange juice, tights and a tea towel to show what happens to a banana and biscuits when we eat them! We learnt how the teeth and saliva break the food down in the mouth and then stomach acid and churning in the stomach break it down even more. The body then takes all the water and nutrients it needs as the food passes through the small intestine and the large intestine. When the food reaches the anus we have the urge to go to the toilet and then we poop it out!

In Numeracy, we have been practising our adding using a 3-step strategy where we add the tens first and then add the ones in two steps, stopping at the next tens number (the ‘tea stop’!) before adding on the remaining ones! We can use a number line to help us break it up.

In Maths, we have been adding costs and finding change. We also set up a Pet Shop with Mrs Skilling where we can practise buying and selling items!

In Art, we finished our milk carton pencil pots! They look fab and hold pens and pencils well! We are really pleased we have reused something that normally gets thrown away. We also had a choice of drawing and colouring a tiger. We chose a tiger as our last class novel had a tiger in it who liked to speak in rhyme and cook!

We are really enjoying the start of our new class novel, The Christmasaurus! It is very funny!

In Health and Wellbeing, we made strategy jars to put ideas in about how we can manage some of our emotions. We worked really well in groups of 4 showing our cooperation skills. We also took photos of us showing the emotion we were working on! It was funny!