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This week we began exploring Viking life. We took notes as we watched a video about Viking longships. We were amazed at the number of facts we were able to jot down! We then used our notes to create a labelled diagram of a longship, trying to include as much information as we could. We also began to prepare for our Viking assembly; we were learning songs and discussing parts, props and costumes. We hope you’ll enjoy watching us on 3^rd February.

Numeracy

This week we have been focusing on multiplication and using arrays to help develop our understanding. We are becoming very good at creating multiplication stories to match our arrays.

We also investigated what happened when you multiply a number by 10, 100 and 1000.

Health and Wellbeing

We began our Being Cool in School focus and explored, through drama, how to deal with tricky situations that may arise in school. We discovered that there are three types of response we can choose to use:

Aggressive

Weak and

Cool

Our drama sketches showed the negative consequences of using an aggressive or weak response. We’ve all decided that we’ll work hard to use cool responses when dealing with difficult situations.

From the Blog Post Box

This week I learned…

…that 120 Vikings could fit in a Viking longship.                  Nathan

…to have a cool response when something goes wrong, not an aggressive or weak response.  

Jaime-Lee

…how to make an array.               Jason

…joined up writing and I find it quite tricky!          Jacob

…how to do hard cheerleading stunts.                     Lucy

Pupil(s) of the Week: Ela and Rayen – for making such a positive start in their new school. We’re delighted to welcome you both to Balbardie.