I learned about Self Questioning. This means when you are reading a book and you’re not sure what something means you ask yourself a question.  You can work out the answer using clues in the book. (Noor Dekkak)

I learned how to make Play-doh. I wrote a recipe but I also used my numeracy skills to measure  the ingredients. (Aisha Hanif)

I learned about PATHS. This is part of health and wellbeing and it teaches us about our emotions. (Sarim Malik, Noor Dekkak)

I learned spelling words with ‘ph’ in them (Muhammad Mehboob)

I made a pumpkin lantern with a jar and we put a candle inside. (Sofia Zamir)

I learned about place value using tens and units. (Nimrah Ali)

We watched a short movie called ‘Spy Fox’. I then had to summarise the story, this means we tell the story in our own words and just tell the important parts. (Haleems Fatima)

I learned how to do subtraction chimney sums. (Aisha Afzal)

We learned about Anna and Simeon who held baby Jesus in the temple. (Jasim Al-Mayyahi, Hamza Alam, Sanjog Singh)

I learned how to used a dictionary. I looked for Halloween words and wrote the meaning in my jotter. (Hamza Alam)

I learned how to make paper pumpkins. I cut 7 strips of orange paper then I poked a hole at each end. After that I used a pin to keep the strips together. Next I fanned out the strips to make a circle and I connected them at the bottom with another pin. Finally I added some leaves.  (Sanjog Singh)

I have been practising chimney sums and I challenged myself with Hundreds, Tens and Units. (Aisha Hanif)

I learned about respect.  This is when you help others or maybe open a door for somebody.  You say please and thank you. (Noor Dekkak)

I wrote a creative story about what the teachers did in school when the children were off. I think the teachers were challenging each other to make the best cake. (Aiman Javed)

I learned to do dance moves to the rhythm of a song. (Sofia Zamir)

I learned how to do the spider pose for yoga.  (Mahrosh Waleed)

We learned about hedgehogs.  I know that they hibernate when it is too cold and they have no food left. (Haleema Fatima)

We made our own hedgehogs using clay. We then took them outside to make animations of them building little dens. (Haania Yasin-Iqbal)

I learned how to make bird feeders. There is not much food around for birds because the leaves and berries are falling off the trees. (Rayan Ahmed)

I learned about symmetry and made a symmetrical pattern outside using leaves and twigs. (Sofia Zamir)

We studied an artist called Andy Goldsworthy who makes art using things in nature. We tried to recreate some images.

I have been learning how to do chimney sums. (Zainab Adnan)

I learned to summarise a story. (Noor Dekkak)

I learned how to partition sums. (Sofia Zamir)

I was using a Tee Jay book independently for number work. (Sarim Malik)

I was making spelling words with magnetic letters. (Nimrah Ali)

I learned how to predict, this means I use the information I have read to think what might happen next. (Sanjog Singh)

I was learning to jump over hurdles, pass a hula hoop over my body and kick a ball through cones. (Hamza Alam)

I learned how to split tens and units. (Kalsoom Afridi)

Here are some photographs of us having fun this week.

Today we made Apple Pies using the apples we picked in the school  garden.  We followed a recipe and learned how to chop and slice safely.  We also learned how to use the school cooker.

This week we have practised our spelling words at active stations and created interesting sentences.  We also created a character and wrote an imaginative story about how our characters used their superpowers.  Some characters used ice to freeze teachers, turned books into candy and one even turned people into bananas! Our grammar focus this week was question marks so we tried to use them in our writing.  Our listening skills and reading skills were tested with comprehension exercises this week. We read all about rabbits and answered questions.  We also listened carefully to statements and completed our sheets correctly.

We practised number bonds, adding sums and rounding numbers in our numeracy jotters.  We even used our math skills to weigh ingredients when making jam.

Our school vision, values and aims are important to us and we discussed how these are often seen at home, in the community and where some of us go to pray.  It’s all about being kind and caring for everyone.

This week we decided to make jam. We had to risk assess the outdoor area where we were picking berries. There were lots of jaggy nettles and some slippy mud but we were careful and responsible.  We also wrote down the recipe and used our numeracy skills for weighing the ingredients.  Here are some photos of our fabulous jam.

This week we have been writing sentences using capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.  We have been reading new story books.  In class we used I-pads to practise our numeracy skills and have been learning number bonds.

We practised our handwriting and will learn to do joined handwriting this year.

We learned to do patterns in our numeracy jotter.

On Thursday we created a story map to help us re tell the story of The Lost Wag. It was a story about a dog who became sad and lost it’s waggy tail.

During Health and Wellbeing we learned about choices and our rights.  We know how to stay safe by making good choices.

At home we practised spelling words for our Friday spelling test and we got new logins for Sumdog to play math games.

School was quiet for a couple of days as some of us were celebrating Eid which meant we had the lunch hall to ourselves.  It was so much fun!

We learned to make patterns using concrete materials and we also did some great writing activities.