We have started a unit of work where we are learning about the connection between literacy and music and how music can help tell a story.

We have listened to a folk ballad, a traditional song from Shetland and two classical pieces, all of which tell very different stories.

The latest piece we listening to was ‘In The Hall Of The Mountain King’ by the Norwegian composer, Edvard Grieg. After hearing a summary of the story, we listened to the piece played by an orchestra and then on our whiteboards we drew a picture to show what the music made us think of.

Below are some photos of the class hard at work creating their drawings and also some of the final pictures they produced and shared with their classmates.

We’re developing our knowledge of what plants need to grow.  We all planted our own sunflowers and will monitor their growth over time, using our measuring skills.  We also created beautiful sunflower art using our creative meta skills.

We’ve been exploring new hardware in the form of Micro:bits and accessing BBC Make Code software, to develop our coding skills.   We created coded sequences to make a flashing heart and then extended our learning by inserting our own code to include letters or other pictures, within the flashing heart sequence.  We used our creativity and curiosity meta skills.  We will continue to extend our knowledge throughout Term 4.

As part of our learning in numeracy , we recently worked in pairs to measure different things in the playground as well as the perimeter of the field and other areas.   We used our co-operative and communication meta skills as well as problem solving skills.

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