‘You always have to use past tense in a recount because it’s about something that’s already happened.’ – Ozy
‘We had to use adjectives in our descriptions. We used a thesaurus to make sure we used interesting words.’ – Morris
‘On a Tuesday we do diacritical marking. We have to write our words down and mark it with a dot, line or rainbow arch.’ – Halle
‘If we find a tricky word in our book we read around it and try and work out what it means. After we’ve done that we would look in a dictionary to see if we were right or wrong.’– Leo
Numeracy and Maths
This session, we are doing maths lessons a little bit differently. Instead of being put into groups, Miss May teaches us a new concept and then we can choose the level of follow-up task that we complete. This has been really popular in our class because we like taking some responsibility for our learning and challenging ourselves.
‘Miss May lets us choose what level we do. We can choose from Silver, Gold or Platinum.’ – Leah
‘We choose the right level for us.’ – Hannah
‘It lets us challenge ourselves and it means Miss May listens to our opinions.’ – Harley
A new resource we have made great use of this term is Numicon. We love how it can be used to support lots of different skills and strategies, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and fractions.
On Thursdays, Mrs Brock has been teaching us all about 2D shapes and 3D objects. We made our very own shape nets attached to string – when we pull them they turn into 3D objects!
‘Tudor houses had beams. The top floor was bigger than the bottom floor.’ – Sophie
‘They were made out of wood, clay, sand and animal poo! I wouldn’t like to live in one!’ – Arwyn
Mrs Brock has taught us lots about keeping our bodies healthy. We have learned about the importance of a healthy and balanced diet, demonstrating good hygiene and the dangers of smoking.
‘Good hygiene is important because if you don’t keep your body clean you can get very dirty and start to smell.’ – Daniel
‘It is important that you brush your teeth so you don’t get cavities.’ – Kaitlyn
‘If you smoke your lungs can go black because of the nicotine.’ – Elliot
Mrs Brock has also taught us lots of interesting facts about different states of water during our science lessons. We have carried out different experiments, including picking up ice using a piece of string (this worked by melting the ice using salt) and creating our very own rain.
‘It was good because it worked and the string picked up the ice.’ – Markus
‘We tried to make rain with hot water in a jar. We put some ice cubes on top of it and it started to drip.’ – Quinn