WOW, your art is brilliant. You are quite rightly proud of it. Well done everyone.

P1  have worked very hard to create this  display in the corridor. We painted paper plates to make the body of our robins and covered them in red and brown tissue. We think our little robin “Robin Red” will like them!

This week we have been sharing stories and learning facts about hedgehogs, Mrs Collins showed us a photo of the two hoglets (baby hedgehogs) that she leaves special hedgehog food out for every evening. We had great fun making our hedgehog spines  by printing with card dipped in paint.

We’ve had a lovely week in P2/1. We’ve had lots of chats this week about how we all have different thoughts and can see things differently, looking at stories from different perspectives and also looking at some optical illusions – how many animals can you see in this picture?

We’ve spent more time outside looking at trees, and on Monday collected more leaves from sycamore, oak and lime trees. We then painted roots, trunks and branches and when they’d dried did some leaf printing. We talked about the different parts of the tree before labelling them. We’re also getting very good at recognising trees in the pictures of our stories!

In phonics we’ve learned the h and r sounds and are continuing to put these sounds together to build words. In numeracy we’re continuing to do lots of formation and counting out items.

We’ve had lots of fun in PE this week. We are doing running, jumping and throwing in athletics and playing games to build stamina.

We’re also enjoying playing, inside and outside the classroom. This week our play seems to have a robot theme!

Here are some highlights of this week:

We used the Descriptive Writing Structure and worked together to create a text about Hay Lodge Park.   We made an Imovie using our photographs from our walk and then added our Descriptive Writing.  Here is an example made by Annabelle.

Whilst creating the Imovie, Adam enjoyed listening to the different Soundtracks and choosing an appropriate one.   Isla liked using the Voice Over feature while creating the movie.

We are learning about The Senses and this week we studied the structure of and how the ear works.  We recorded sounds at home and the class had to guess what the sounds were.

It was Week 3 (and our final week) of our mouldy food experiment  – the look of the cheese and the strawberry made Jamie feel sick – and others in the class.  The cheese was blue and the strawberry had fermented and was all mushy.  Niamh felt that all of the foods were disgusting.

In literacy, last week we looked at similes and this week we look at changing similes into metaphors.

The fire was as bright as the sun.

The fire was a bright sun.

In numeracy we have worked on the vertical written standard method of addition and also mentally adding several numbers together looking at what numbers went well together to make ‘tens’.

TASK

In the comments add a simile and change it to a metaphor.

This week we have enjoyed:

-Music. We were learning about beat sequences  through Garage Band.

-P.E. We were working on our stamina.

-finishing our class novel, Max and the Millions. Most of us really enjoyed it.

-discovering our sense of smell. We went for a “smelly” walk in the playground and were amazed at what we found.

-looking on the bright side. This week we had to reflect daily on what made us happy.

-handwriting. We focused on the size and joins in our letters.

-completing our description texts on our chosen animal.

-creating 3D shapes and learning about the properties. (Face, Edge and Vertex)

-Maths. We took part in a maths relay to help us with our addition.

This week we have enjoyed:

-Music. We were learning about beat sequences.

-P.E. We were working on our stamina.

-finishing our class novel, Max and the Millions. Most of us really enjoyed it.

-discovering our sense of smell. We went for a “smelly” walk in the playground and were amazed at what we found.

-looking on the bright side. This week we had to reflect daily on what made us happy.

-handwriting. We focused on the size and joins in our letters.

-completing our description texts on our chosen animal.

-creating 3D shapes and learning about the properties. (Face, Edge and Vertex)

-Maths. We took part in a maths relay to help us with our addition.

Happy Birthday to Milo!

Another busy week – we’ve learned a lot about Angles, Square and Triangular numbers, Optical illusions, Forces, Writing a Description, apostrophes, the long /e/ spelling sound and lots of other things.  We also made a playlist for Wonder, designed a zip-wire and had a chat about Puberty!

What did you think?

1. Best bit of the week
2. Something you found tricky
3. Something you would recommend to another learner

We have been learning about microorganisms. This week we did an experiment with yeast. Here is the information if you want to do the experiment at home.

Some highlights from this week include –

• air resistance science with flying planes
• floating and sinking testing of our sail boats
• super examples of different types of adjectives
• challenging multiples and factors in maths
• amazing firefighter pieces of description writing
• an actual fire drill!
• refugee and asylum seeker research to find out about characters in ‘The Divided City’

Comment below to answer these review of the week questions –

1. What did you do to make Kingsland a better place this week?
2. What were you successful at this week?
3. What did you need more help with this week?
4. Where could you have worked harder this week?
5. What are you most looking forward to for our Dalguise at Home week?

Our new sound today was “r” and Michael showed us his very ripped bed time blankie,  that his naughty puppy had been playing with. It is now a ripped rag!

Mrs Collins read us a true story about a little boy who was afraid of the dark that ended up becoming an astronaut! To help us remember our sound we made some colourful rockets.