This week we were very industrious making our class video to welcome Mrs Strathearn to Kingsland. We spent a lot of time editing it and deciding if scenes were to be kept in or deleted.

Welcome to Kingsland, Mrs Strathearn.

Spelling

We had tricky words to spell this week with the si/ti sounds in them. For example: vision & tension. We will revisit this pattern again in our Spelling games and this will help us to learn them.

Writing – procedure

Our teacher modelled how to write in the procedure style. We are enjoying adding bullet points and numbers into our writing.

Reading 

In class our guided reading continues to be non-fiction. We are becoming very skilled at reading photographs and what information they are giving us. We can use the contents page accurately and we are getting better at using the glossary.

Maths

It was exciting to use the dotty paper and dotty whiteboards to make tilings. We had to use our ruler to make the lines very straight. We made tiles on our dotty paper with squares and then to challenge ourselves we then tried to draw hexagons on the dotty paper.

We played Maths games to develop our Maths skills and this also helped us to work better together as a group. This  was a fun way to explore or number bonds, times tables and dividing skills.

Yoga

We did some mindfulness yoga and it was very funny when we all became starfish but, then we found it very relaxing and we felt very calm afterwards.

 

Science

We learned about how molecules make up solids, liquids and gases. We played a game to test whether we knew the difference between how the molecules are packed in solids, liquids and gases. We managed to work this out very quickly and we will keep playing this game to help us to remember the facts.

For a bit of fun we put some tiny water beads in a tray . Cold water was added to the tray and we were amazed by how quickly the beads grew and then they became quite slimy.

iPads

During our iPad session we continued to explore the Notes app. Last week we took photos of our sock puppets so this week we swapped iPads and took photos of our learning partners. There were lots of retakes, striking a pose and best of all lots of very happy smiles in our photos. It was great to be active in our learning too when we got to move around the classroom to take our photographs. We had lots of personalisation and choice because we had to choose where we took our photographs and the mischief our sock puppets were getting up to.

Then we typed up text from our teacher modelled procedures and we were very proud of what the documents looked like in the end.

The part we enjoyed the most from this session was when we got to share our work with our friends.