We have started planning our sharing assembly this week. We look forward to showing the other classes and our parents on Monday.
We have been learning to type up our information reports on Word, using different fonts, formatting images and adding colourful texts. We read our next steps and edited our work.
We have been learning about the nervous system. We know what a neuron is and have created some of our own in class. These are on Twitter if anyone would like to see them.
In Art, we have been learning how light can affect our work. We drew otters and created a shadow behind them. They look great on our display.
We continued developing our volleyball skills in PE. We learned how to serve accurately by aiming for a hoop.

We have learned about personification. That is when an object is described with a human quality. For example…The washing machine spat my clothes out. The human quality is spat.
We learned about the Fibonacci sequence. It goes like this… 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 and so on. When it is drawn as a picture it turns into a spiral.
We have been learning about red squirrels. We took notes while we watched a video and then searched for more facts using the internet. Using our notes we created an information text. We had to include lots of facts about the red squirrel (what it looks like, what it eats, where it lives, how it moves and what it does in winter).
In art we drew bubbles with chalk. We had to choose two colours that we saw in bubbles along with white and yellow to show how the light passes through the surface. We made our lines curved to make the bubbles look 3D.
In our bands we had a budget of £500 to get to Edinburgh, stay in a hotel, eat at a restaurant and visit a local attraction. Some people wanted the cheapest option while others enjoyed spending the money.
We are happy to have Miss Monteith with us for the next few weeks.

We have been learning about “Big Deal” and “Little Deal” and “THINK” before we talk in Health and Wellbeing lessons this week. We created posters that we will share during our Together Time next week.
In PE we have continued learning skills that will help us during a game of Four Square or Volleyball.
We learned all the body parts in French and enjoyed singing songs about them.
We wrote an information text about modes of transport. We learned how to use subtitles, include adjectives and open all our sentences in a variety of ways.
We used the internet to research some places of interest in Edinburgh – this is the first city our bands will be visiting!
In maths we have continued working with decimals. We have been ordering decimal numbers, adding and subtracting decimals and read decimals from a scale.
We have learned how to use commas to add a relative clause to a sentence. This is another way we can up-level our sentences.
During Fun for 31 we all made dens inside the classroom. Once our dens were made we read, played games and completed jigsaw puzzles.
In music we have been learning to play a glockenspiel in time to a piece of music. Next week we will see if we can play in parts and sing at the same time.
Our dances to Kylie’s The Loco-Motion are coming along nicely. We will be performing them to each other next week.

This week we have been planning our Battle of the Bands topic in greater detail.
We have been learning about decimals – ordering them and rounding them to the nearest whole number. Next, we will be adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimals.
We have been learning about onomatopoeia and we used some words in a poem about fireworks.
We had fun learning about Sparkler Safety – we created a drama piece to demonstrate our understanding.
Every wrote a letter of complaint in our writing lesson.
We learned about how light can affect art work – we used black paper to create silhouettes of a haunted house.
In PE we have been learning new skills that will help us in volleyball.

This week we have enjoyed creating our PowerPoints to support our paired presentation about different South American countries. The talks went well and our classmates gave us positive feedback and next steps.

We have been learning about decimals. We have been working with tenths and hundredths. Next week we will be learning how to round decimal numbers to the nearest whole number before we start learning about Money.

We have been learning how to write an information text. We planned as a class and then everyone wrote their own information text about how to stay healthy. Some people focused on food and exercise while other people looked at hygiene.

This week we learned how to use line in art to create pattern. We used pencils to make different tones of the same colour.

We made posters to advertise Newport’s Christmas Cheer at the end of November. We made them bold, bright and colourful and included all the key information.

Our new topic is going to be “Battle of the Bands”. We all formed our own bands, gave them a name and created a Pic Collage advertising our band. They looked great! We will together throughout this topic. We have learned about the major cities in the UK and we will decide which ones to visit on our tour. We will learn how to budget our money and read transport timetables.

In PE we played games with a rugby ball. We are improving our throwing and catching skills as well as learning the rules of touch rugby.

Happy holidays!

We have enjoyed creating Harvest Moon art this week. We focused on making our brush strokes go in the right direction. Have a look on Twitter to see what they look like.

We wrote Harvest Haikus and read some of them out at our end of term assembly. We used our ICT skills to format a picture so that it was behind the text. They looked great.

In writing, we wrote a narrative story using all the skills we have learned this term. Next term, we are looking forward to writing Information Texts and Letters.

We have been changing 12-hour time to 24-hour time. We will continue learning about time next term.

We were excited to take part in “Fun for 31” for the first time this week. This links to what we know about the Children’s Rights. Article 31 states that children have the right to relax and play. Everyone was creative in the way they played 🙂

We have been spending time researching a South American country – next week we are giving a presentation in pairs on the country we have found facts out about.
We have been estimating and measuring time. Some of our estimations have been very close to the time it actually took to carry out the task.
We have been learning how to research using key words and then put information into our own words.
We have been learning to insert text and pictures in to a table using Word.
Online learning has been successful. Lots of children have shared their stories, maths, art and harvest work with the teacher.
In maths we have been learning how to multiply 3- and 4-digit numbers by a single digit. Some groups have been multiplying decimals by a single digit too.
We have enjoyed singing the Harvest songs in preparation for the Harvest Assembly next week.

We wrote a narrative text about a key – we all had a different key to use for our story. Some keys opened doors while others opened treasure chests.
We have been learning about the Learner Characteristics. We created a cereal that would be perfect for learning. We enjoyed thinking about catchy names for our cereals and designing the boxes.
In maths we have been learning how to multiply numbers by multiples of ten and a hundred as well as multiplying 2-, 3- and 4-digit numbers by a single digit.
We had our first experience of dictation this week, everyone tried very hard. We have seen how important taking new paragraphs and adding punctuation are.
In PE we have been developing our running skills – dodging, starting and stopping. We have been very aware of the space around us and played games to encourage us to move safely around the hall.
We have been celebrating how unique we all are – that our differences are special.

We are all really looking forward to the School Fayre tomorrow. We would like to thank everyone for their kind donations for our Chocolate Tombola.
This week we have been learning about the different layers of the rainforest. We worked in groups to create a picture of what it looks like.
In maths we have been rounding numbers to estimate answers and learning about the chances of events happening.
In literacy we have been learning how to punctuate speech correctly. We have included speech in our narrative writing this week.
We had our first committees meeting this week. This year they are Eco, Rights Respecting, Health and Wellbeing, Enterprise and Road Safety.
In art we have been learning how to use line to create patterns and different tones.
We have been enjoying our drumming lessons.
In PE we created our own basketball activity stations based on the skills we have been learning the last few weeks.
In groups we showed our understanding of the different layers of the rainforest by creating a structure with loose parts.
In Health and Wellbeing we have continued to explore the Learning Characteristics and how making a mistake can be a good thing.

This week we have been learning about the Split Strategy to add large numbers together. We have also been rounding numbers to the nearest ten and hundred. Next we will be rounding numbers in a calculation to estimate the answer.

In art, we have continued exploring one-point perspective. Some of our work has been on Twitter this week.

In PE, we have be developing our skills in basketball. We enjoyed playing games. We worked well in our teams by encouraging one another and making sure everyone felt included.

We learned how to “shape fill” in our ICT lesson using PowerPoint. We inserted a shape and then filled it with a photo/picture that is saved in our folder.

We worked well together during loose parts play. Our challenge this week was to create a marble run. We had to make sure the structure was stable and that the course went from high to low.

We created a narrative text about a T.Rex. We used the success criteria to make sure we included paragraphs, connectives and WOW words.

We learned about all the things our brain needs to work effectively. We used what we learned to create a KeyNote presentation.

We have nine trays to explore – the contents of them will change from week to week. This week we have enjoyed making Loom Band bracelets, creating a scene from a rainforest and mindfulness colouring (to name a few).

As a reward for working so hard we enjoyed playing Scatter.