Learning highlights:

• This week the children started using a new resource called Kapla which are small, loose wooden blocks. They completed a stem challenge to build the strongest bridge using this new resource and everyone loved it. They have been experimenting with designs all week and are looking forward to more challenges.
• Today, we learned why Remembrance Day is important, why poppies are sold and the difference between the Scottish and the English poppy. We created some stained glass art where we drew and cut out poppies, crosses or images of soldiers. Check them out on our windows when you drive by.
• We have been reading ‘The Wild Robot Escapes’ as our class novel at snack time. This is a sequel to ‘The Wild Robot’ which we read last term. This week, the story reunited the main character, Roz with her son, Brightbill and the class erupted in cheers and celebrations! We were so happy, excited and glad that they found each other again after so long. We can’t wait to see if Roz makes it back to the island.

Challenges:

• All maths groups are learning the times tables which can be very tricky. We have been drawing arrays, using number squares and skip counting to help us.
• In reading, we used a short read text to enhance our summarising and clarifying skills. We are learning to only summarise the important parts of a text and to read the full sentence to try to understand the meanings of words.
• For spelling we tried to find smaller words within our main spelling words. This was really hard because we learned that you can’t add extra letters and some words are not spelled how they sound.

Our lead learners this week were Jack and Che. They were looking for people being kind, people tucking in their chairs and for people saying thank you to others.