This morning, as part of our open morning, we started our new learning on World War II.  We thought of lots of things we already know about WWII and what we like to find out.  With our parents, we put into order events from WWII onto a timeline.

This afternoon, in the ICT suite, we used google maps to identify countries in Europe in 1939.  We were then able to identify those countries in the axis and the allies.  To finish the day, we watched the start of the DVD “Goodnight Mr Tom” when war was declared.

A big thank you to the parents who were able to come along to our open morning 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Continue reading The Outbreak of World War II 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 →

This afternoon was thoroughly enjoyable as we watched Woodlands Got Talent.   We had three acts from our class who all performed brilliantly. The winner came from our class earning 1500 House Points for her  house. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

The Judges

This morning in Literacy the Blue and Green groups finished their novels and the Red group were working on the IDLcloud.  Everyone loved their novel or IDL cloud.  “Marks out of 10, please?”

This morning in PE, we had a warm up then practised our badminton skills before taking part in a tournament.  It was very competitive and gave us the chance to use our skills.  Lots of people forgot their PE kit.  Remember we have PE on a Monday and Wednesday.  Reminder: Spelling test on Friday as well as Woodlands Got Talent .🎟🎼🎤🌟🤸🏻‍♂️

This morning, I’ve also uploaded new maths homework on Active Learn.

This week brings us to the end of our fabulous learning about Extreme Earth.  Today we’ve have been looking at Tornadoes.  We were learning about how tornadoes form, explain how scientist collect data about storms and explain how scientists can compare tornadoes.

Maths

The children now have access to an exciting new set of online resources via Active Learn.  The easiest way to find the resource is to use google chrome and search for active learn login

Each child has been given a username, password is woodlands and the code below password (beside the calculator image) is 6kwa.  Once you are logged in remember you may have to allow pop ups to access the resources.  Each child has been allocated resources that they can choose from.

Literacy

• Reading

Green group read chapters 9 & 10 of their group novel

Blue Group read chapters 9 & 10 of their group novel

Red Group read their new book

2) Learn these spellings for a test on Friday.  Pick at least 7 words from your list and put them into a sentence.

Spelling Group 1 ee and ea: steam, team, treat, meat, eat, tea, sea, seed, need, tree, see, bee

Spelling Group 2 on and en endings: happen, seven, kitten, mitten, given, fatten, sudden, button, lesson, person, skeleton, Prison, season, poison.

Spelling Group 3 el endings: camel, panel, chapel, gravel, travel, chisel, jewel, novel, cancel, satchel, kestrel, tinsel, mongrel, hostel, cockerel

3) Miss Ferguson’s Special Homework to be handed in on Friday 10^th February J

4) Extreme Earth:  Look at the three experiments below.  Chosen one of them to make at home and bring into school on Thursday 16^th February

REMEMBER ALL THIS WEEK TO BRING GOOD FOOTWEAR AND JACKET FOR WALK TO WEST AFRICA (or round the playground!!!!!!)

We’ve  had a really busy day today. We did a check at the end of the day and some children in the Green Reading Group need to finish reading Chapter 8 and some children in the Blue Group need to finish reading Chapter 7.  Please do this over the weekend. Next week we start the walk to West Africa so make sure you’ve wearing sensible shoes and coat as we’ll be out walking each day!!!

This afternoon, in our groups, we created question and answer cards about Tsunamis. We then passed our cards to another group and we all took part in a Team Game Tournament.  This helped us to learn so much about Tsunamis.

We then looked at the famous painting The Great Wave off Kanazawa by Hokusai.  We were surprised to see a mountain and 2 boats in the painting.

Maths

The children now have access to an exciting new set of online resources via Active Learn.  The easiest way to find the resource is to use google chrome and search for active learn login

Each child has been given a username, password is woodlands and the code below password (beside the calculator image) is 6kwa.  Once you are logged in remember you may have to allow pop ups to access the resources.  Each child has been allocated resources that they can choose from.

Literacy

Many children are not completing their reading work at home which is slowing down the pace of their learning.  Please ensure you sign your child’s jotter the say that they have read these chapters.

Green group read chapters 7 & 8 of their group novel (same as last week)

Blue Group read chapters 5 & 6 of their new group novel (same as last week)

Red Group read their new book (to be issued on Tuesday)

Write each sentence using apostrophes to show possession.

Example:  The ball belongs to Daniel.             It’s Daniel’s ball

The web belongs to the spider.

It’s _________________________________________________

The basket belongs to the lady.

It’s _________________________________________________

The collar belongs to the dog.

It’s _________________________________________________

What about plural nouns ?

The ball belongs to the boys.

It’s _________________________________________________

The cave belongs to the dragons.

It’s _________________________________________________

The school belongs to the girls.

It’s _________________________________________________

Extreme Earth:  So far in class we have been looking at volcanoes and earthquakes.  Can you research some famous volcanic eruptions or earthquakes?  Make notes in your jotter explaining: where the volcano/earthquake is, why is it famous or notorious (well known for a bad reason) and the impact it’s had on humans.  If you want you can include maps or images.

This morning we continued our work on newspaper report writing.  Today we started to write a newspaper reporting about the Nepal earthquake of April 2005.  We used our knowledge of earthquakes and skills of taking notes to plan and write and introductory paragraph.  We also planned our second paragraph.  Next time we will complete our newspaper reports.