Literacy

This term we have been reading a novel called Tilly and the Badgers. We have been reviewing our comprehension strategies and mastering our skills. We have especially enjoyed learning all about what badger baiting is and that it is animal cruelty. 

 

We have been writing instructions as our chosen genre. We have linked our social studies topic ‘American Civilisations’ to our writing and numeracy by writing instructions on how the Incas counted and recorded their numbers.

We will be moving onto completing the strategies more independently with our own reading books.

Numeracy

We have been enjoying learning Place Value up to millions. We have been extending our number knowledge and have completed an end of concept quiz on Sumdog which we all did very well in. 

We really love completing our Number Talks in class. We are looking at our addition and subtraction strategies. We work with a partner so we can help each other think of different ways to answer the sum.

We are moving onto learning about time next week.

Health and Wellbeing

We have enjoyed fun start of year activities like Fun Fitness and Dodgeball games in P.E. and have moved onto athletics which help us improve our throwing and catching skills.

In class we have Respect Me display where we learn and understand our SHANARRI activities. We also have a friendship cloud where we write something nice about a person in our class to make them feel happy.

 

Football

Some people were given the opportunity to take part in our school football tournament. They followed all the class and school rules and completed all their work in time. They won 3 games, lost 1 and drew 1. Well Done Lucas and Graham!!!

ART

Our favourite activity in art has been creating a mirror image self portrait. We got to be creative with how we completed it but we had to pay attention to detail. 

 

 

 

Literacy –  Writing

As part of our introduction to the theme Titanic, our pupils investigated and reported on a recent disaster that hit the headlines.  Pupils researched information on Hurricane Irma.

They collected information on what it was, where it started and what happened as a result of it.

Several drafts were written and reports were continually refined as new research information was found….watch this space for the final report!

 

 

Numeracy – Number Talks

 

 

 

 

Pupils worked  together to explore a variety of approaches that they could employ to arrive at an answer for a selection of computational problems.

As they shared ideas and demonstrated their approaches, they discovered new ways of adding that they had never previously considered.  This helped them to strengthen their concepts of rounding and estimating.

 

Health & Well-being

As pupils set up for the new academic year, they worked through a variety of activities that helped  them get to know each other.  They made their own Selfie (no names) and the other pupils were asked to guess who that person might be…

In addition to this, they worked on developing a framework behaviours that were reflected of the UN Convention on the Rights of  the Child.  and on how they wished to be treated.

                   

Science – Water, Water Everywhere!

Linked to our pupils conducted a number of activities (including experiments) on the properties of water.

Pupils made their own Water Cycle and learned about the various stages of the Cycle.

We also explored the properties of objects and made hypotheses as to why the chosen objects would either float or sink.

 

 

 

 

We tried 5 different milks today.  We were surprised to find out that some milks are made from plants.  The condensed milk was our favourite type of milk.