Learning Highlights:

• Creating science experiments to test whether different water temperatures dissolve salt quicker or slower and to test whether table salt or rock salt dissolves quicker or slower in water.
• Writing our own limericks using the set format of lines 1,2 and 5 rhyming and lines 3 and 4 rhyming.
• Learning about number squares for NSPCC Number Day and finding out that subtracting any 4 numbers in a square will always result in zero eventually and always within 6 steps or less.

Challenges:

• We have been learning to round decimals in maths to the tenths, hundredths and thousandths. The class were set a challenge when using this skill in 99math (online game). The first time we played we only managed to get 24% correct as a class. After a short 5 minute recap, we tried again and achieved an amazing 84% accuracy! We tried again the next day and got 89% accuracy.
• In PE we have been challenged with Mrs Flynn in gymnastics, trying to create different shapes with our bodies and creating a short routine to show our balancing, rolling and movement skills.
• For reading we looked at a Short Read called ‘The 3 Questions’ based on a Russian parable. We used a 4 Door challenge to study the text: predicting what it was about, summarising it, clarifying any words we didn’t know and asking questions about it to get a better understanding of it.

Our lead learners this week chose to look at the 5 school values and were able too many being demonstrated both in class and in the playground.