Recently we started to learn about basic fractions, like halves and quarters. We know that when we split one whole thing into bits, they are fractions. It’s just like dividing! In the class we have broken food into halves and quarters and also numbers.

We made sandwiches, where we had to make 2 halves with the bread and cheese and then cut them again to make quarters.

With cubes, we made a big number and then either split it into 2 to half it, or split it into 4 to quarter it.

While we made our sandwiches, we also remembered all our good hygiene rules so we washed our hands carefully and kept them away from our faces, the desks etc until we had finished our food preparation.

Yesterday we used our Reading Strategies and our partner skills to find out pirate facts. There were 12 facts hidden around the classroom, which we had to find and summarise. We recorded them on a sheet and at the end, we took part in a quiz to see how much we’d learned. We had to decide if something was a myth or the truth. If it was the truth, we shouted, “Aye, Jim lad!” and if it was a myth, we shouted, “Never me hearties!” in our best pirate voices.

After our topic work, we had some time at Play to Learn where some of the boys had us all in stitches, when they became 4 grannies who were off to the bingo!

We worked in groups this morning to use Metres  to make drawings. We had a Metre stick and a Metre long piece of string. Our Success Criteria were that each drawing had to be 1M long. We had to make sure we started at the start of the stick and finished at the end. It was important to make sure that the stick didn’t move while we worked so we helped each other.

Once we came inside, we had a close look at our school rulers to check which side showed Centimetres. Our Success Criteria were to draw lines of certain lengths. We had to start at Zero; stop at the correct length and label our lines with the correct size in Centimetres.