It was lovely to welcome the children back to school after the forced break for the snow days. We hope you all managed to keep warm and safe and also had some fun during the days away from school.

This week we’ve hit the ground running catching up with all the things the children had missed!

In French, we did colouring by number, colouring in a very colourful toucan! We learnt that there are special words to help us with dark and light colours such as vert clair, vert foncé and bleu ciel.

We also had class talks by Ellie-Rose, Ruby, Eva and Shaun. Ellie-Rose talked about Viking longhouses. She taught us that the fire was in the middle of the single roomed house. Ruby spoke about Viking weapons. She explained that the Vikings swords were their most expensive weapons and that they usually had names – such as Death Bringer in our class novel, Viking Boy. Longships were the topic in Eva’s talk. She used some Viking language at the end of her talk. Shaun also talked about longhouses and provided a fabulous wordsearch for us to complete.

In our NYCoS session we started learning about the universal language for learning musical notes and we even learnt some signs to help us pitch our voices. Afterwards we watched the scene from ‘The Sound of Music’ where Maria teaches the children to sing.

In Maths we are finishing off our work on coordinates. We are trying to remember that to find a coordinate we go along the corridor and up the stairs. We used this game to help us.

https://www.mathplayground.com/space_graph_jr/index.html

Our learning partners of the week AND our supportive friends this month were Annie and Lewis. Well done, you’ve worked hard together this week and worked hard to be really good classmates.