In circle time we have been discussing how things change. We talked about the changes we have in our life such as getting older, starting school, moving house.

This year we have all  had to deal with many changes in our lives because of Covid-19.

Changes can make us feel happy or excited but sometimes they make us feel sad or worried. We thought about things we have in our “tool box” that we could use when had to face change that makes us anxious. We could ask our back up team for help, or stop and take a moment or we could use our peace button.

We read the story of The Koala  Who Could about Kevin the koala who learnt to deal with change and overcome his worries. 

This week we planted sunflowers. We talked about what our seeds would need to grow. We put our seeds into the compost and then we put them on the windowsill so they could get the warm sunlight. We now need to remember to  water them everyday.

We have been using our knowledge of doubles to help us with our subtraction.

This week our new sound was ie as in tie, pie, lie and magpie.

This week P7B have been applying their learning about the speed, distance, time triangle to real life scenarios.

We ran a sprint and a middle distance run in the playground and calculated our average speed. We then compared it with the world records for these distances. We couldn’t believe how fast Usain Bolt ran his 100m record!

We have also used the scale on an atlas to find the distance between countries and used this and the average speed of a plane to predict flight times.  We used a bus timetable and the average speed of the bus to calculate the distance travelled. We built a ramp and raced different toy vehicles to calculate speed. We also looked at how time zones impact the way businesses work and worked out which country will celebrate new year first.

Some of our tips for P7A who will do some of these challenges soon are –

• Read the task CAREFULLY
• Follow the rule of the SDT triangle
• The lines on the world map can help you with time zones
• Make sure the angle of your ramp is the same on each go or it will affect your results
• Use a ruler the find the scale on a map – we rounded to the nearest whole centimetre to make it a bit easier
• Look for a pattern in the bus timetable

P4a spelling lists for this week are:

We have also been thinking about the  need to look after our pets and what some of our roles and responsibilities might be.  Here are a couple of additional websites you could use at home:

CBBC have a game called Furry Friends that promotes taking care of your pets.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/pets-factor-furry-friends

There are a variety of videos from Howcast on Youtube that go into more detail on specific pet care.  Here is one about Guinea Pig care.

youtube.com/watch?v=inyZwa9rzpg

We have been learning about how to reduce our carbon footprint. We learned that growing your own food can do this so we planted our own cress seeds. We used old yoghurt pots to do this. We are looking forward to seeing the plants grow!

We have been learning about how to reduce our carbon footprint. We learned that growing your own food can do this so we planted our own cress seeds. We used old yoghurt pots to do this. We are looking forward to seeing the plants grow!

We have designed posters to persuade people not to drop litter in our playground. We plan to laminate these and display them in the playground.

We have designed posters to persuade people not to drop litter in our playground. We plan to laminate these and display them in the playground.