Today we watched a video in class called ‘The Present’. It was a very moving film and brought about lots of discussion about feelings and mind-sets. The class wanted to share this with people from home as they felt it had a lot of powerful messages in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjqiU5FgsYc

How did it make you feel? What message did you take from this video?

That looks good fun making those eye models.

Click on the links below to access some subtraction, addition and shape games for you to practise at home.
Can you beat your score on Hit the Button?

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

https://www.teacherled.com/2015/01/06/symmetry-invaders/

https://www.nctm.org/Classroom-Resources/Illuminations/Interactives/Geometric-Solids/

http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/countingCaterpillar/index.html

If you have a dice at home why not teach someone at home how to play the place value game or the addition or subtraction race games.

Choose one character from the photo below. Can you create a character description based on the character for us to guess?

Use the writing guide below to help your descriptions.

Can you guess the character I am describing…

On top of his head is a black, shiny hat. Under the hat sits two, bushy eyebrows. A pair of large, pink ears stick out from the sides of his face which help him hear things from far away. Under his eyes is a dark, wiry moustache with a wide, grinning mouth hiding underneath. His arms are as thin as a stick and at the end of them sits some smooth, white gloves. At the bottom of his head/body are a couple of bright blue shoes which he uses to stomp across the floor.
Who am I?

We’re going to do this at home this weekend!

Angus is loving making all of his artwork and we are loving having it home. So good to be able to see what he has been doing and talk about it together.

how did you make that beautiful art?

We have been inspired by our novel to look more closely at insects. This is an example of honey bees we drew. We had to add shade and highlight to make the bee look 3D. We are looking forward to doing more next week and using the natural environment to inspire us. We also learned about the anatomy of insects.
We have also enjoyed:
-P.E. We were working on our jumping and took part in the long jump.
-Writing descriptions of an imaginary character. We had to use lots of adjectives this week.
-Designing alternative front covers for our class novel.
-Learning to subtract in maths. We played dice games and took part in a maths relay.
-Handwriting. We are all working hard to improve our joins.
-Music. We are continuing to explore garage band.
-Beginning our new class novel. “The midnight gang” by David Walliams.

Happy Birthday to Lloyd!

We have looked at the sense – sight – and created these eye models.  We made our name in Braille.

For our descriptive writing we wrote about the setting of the novel  ‘Holes’ – Camp Green Lake.  We then watched a small section of the movie Holes.

We have been thinking about ‘having positive thoughts and we used the App Post It to record our happy feelings.

In numeracy we have been working on addition strategies;  using doubles, rounding to nearest 10 or 100 and splitting numbers into units/tens/hundreds/thousands to help us.  Our problem solving group activity was linked to sequences and this was pretty tricky.

Anna really enjoyed making the eye models.  Adam liked using Braille.

Angus and I had a lot of laughs with this after school as he first said it was a ‘mmmmoothie’! He’s loving his letters – thanks Mrs Collins!