Everyone has been doing brilliantly reading their ‘just right’ books. Lots of people are consistently reaching their target and several people have reached beyond the halfway point with our reading challenge. Reading is one of the best indicators of academic success, it improves general knowledge and attainment, wellbeing, resilience and self-esteem, language and literacy skills and thinking, memory, attention and creativity. My favourite part of our reading ethos is when the kids are searching for new books to read and they start to recommend reads to each other! So whether it is a physical book, an eBook on a kindle or even an audio book all of these count towards our reading challenge (though audio books don’t count towards our reading targets).
These are some photos from the clay models we made a couple of weeks ago that the kids took home last week. Unfortunately I didn’t mange to take too many photos as I was generally covered in clay! I hope that you loved seeing what your children made.
Our science focus for this week was on micro-organisms. We are trying to grow our own mould but we are testing out whether mould grows faster in the light or the dark and also testing whether mould grows faster on bread that has been touched by no hands, clean hands or unwashed hands. It will be interesting to see how this experiment develops.
