A short blog this week!

We have been learning about Twitter this week and how to tweet about our learning. We now know what a hashtag is and how to use it.

Sasha B – after a hashtag all the words go together just like a long row of letters.

Eve H – a hashtag is used to group comments together.

We used thinking cards this week as part of our big start activities. Table 1’s card said this – You find an invisibility cloak, where would you go? What would you want to see or do?

There was lots of good discussion with everyone in the group taking part (we really do know what a good discussion looks like now) and Eve had this to say – I would put the cloak on and go into all the shops and steal all the cigarettes. Then I would burn them so that people couldn’t smoke anymore.

In our topic we have been comparing our school day with a Victorian childs school day.

Becky H – children were not allowed to speak until the teacher spoke to them and if they were asked a question and got it wrong they had to wear the dunce’s hat and stand in the corner. We are allowed to talk quietly in class and if we answer a question wrong the teacher or someone at our table will help us to get the right answer.

Mhairi Hinton – in the Victorian times children sat in rows but we get to sit in groups. I like sitting with my friends.

Lewis M – we have jotters, laptops and I -pads to help with our learning but the Victorian children only had a slate. They had to spit on it and wipe it with their sleeve to clean it.

Jamie W – girls would learn how to cook and sew and boys would learn woodwork and maths. In our class everyone learns the same things.

Oh and there were 8 contractions in last weeks blog!!

 Have a good weekend!