Literacy
This week, our Grammar focus was to add alliteration to our Recount Writing (Weekend News). What an amazing job Class 2 did of this task…check out the superstar work below;
Some of us were learning about the letters t and p this week. We completed scavenger hunts for these sounds, we used play dough to form the sounds correctly and we sorted picture cards, identifying their initial sounds.
We also sorted out real CVC words and nonsense Ninja CVC words in two different categories.
In our Reading comprehension activities, we were tasked with using Mark-up on our iPads to add relevant speech bubbles to scenes from our reading books.
We also had to use an online thesaurus to identify different adjectives than the originals we found in our reading books.
Numeracy
In Numeracy this week, we have been focusing on revising our number bonds. Some of us were revising our bonds to 10, 20 and 100 (using both multiples of 10 and then adding two-digit numbers).
IDL/Topic
Our topic for this Term is all about enjoying and being in Nature safely and responsibly. This week, we focused on learning more about Orienteering.
We then went out into the playground, where we had to work in pairs or small teams to follow a map and it’s directions using coloured cones.
We evaluated the task, reflecting on how well we coped working with another person, and how difficult it was to work out particular challenges. For those that wanted to, Miss Cohen added on some criteria like counting our map as we travelled through the cones, I.e. blues are worth 1 point, greens are worth 2 points, yellow = 3 points and reds = 4 points. The pair who followed the correct route and found their total points performed fantastically!📍💚
We then completed a relay race in the Gym Hall. We were given an individual key with symbols matched to objects/landmarks; fence, building, pond, bush etc. We had to run to match the symbol to its correct label/title – and then tag the next player in the team. All of these fun games can be found on;
https://www.britishorienteering.org.uk/images/uploaded/downloads/development_schoolgames_primary_countingcones.pdf
Learning about Prepositions ➡️⬅️⬆️⬇️↔️
Another of our Grammar focus’ this week was to learn about Prepositions.
“Forest-bathing” 🌲🌳🌿🌱
It was such a beautiful sunny day on Friday and we decided to take our usual Meditation/Yoga activity outside and include some Forest Bathing time.
On a Friday, we always rate our learning during Weekly Evaluation time. We also decided to choose our favourite aspect of our learning from the week too. Here are our results:
Ross – 10/10; Couldn’t decide on his favourite.
Kit – 8/10; Forest Bathing
Subhan – 10/10; ALL of them!
Khadija – 10/10; ALL of them!
Ivo – 10/10; Orienteering
Kareem – not sure.
Hector – 7/10; playing Dodgeball with Duncan.
Happy Sunday everyone, hope you have had a restful weekend and enjoyed this glorious weather! 🌞
Miss Cohen
