LITERACY
I am using this week to catch up with some of our news. With snow days, trips and lots of visitors – we have got a lot of learning to fill you in on!
Over the last few weeks we have been on a Big Writing Adventure with Little Red Riding Hood. We had a video message from Agent Fizz asking us to help him and Finley (The Woodcutter’s son). We re-told the story using fabulous sentence starters. Then we had to use WOW words to describe the big, bad wolf. We used these lovely describing words to make a wanted poster. We also created a collage of the setting using natural materials. We wrote some brilliant description to describe the forest and set the scene.
“Little Red Riding Hood tiptoed through the deep, mysterious forrest” (ET)
“I was walking along the bright, open path until everything went silent and mysterious” (EM)
“I feel like someone is watching me and I am scared. I hear crunching of the leaves and the trees are tall and dark” (CL)
We have been doing some drama with Ms Crombie about the lonely dragon. We were learning about different feelings and how our feelings change in different situations. We enjoyed creating our own dragons, building a scary cave our of material and working in groups to create a freeze frame.
We have also been looking at non-fiction books and learning all about how they are different to stories. We learnt about the Contents page and the Glossary.
MATHS
We have been learning about Measurement. We used our hands and feet to measure the length of objects around the classroom. We then introduced the Metre stick and used our estimating skills to guess the length of objects. We then went on to look at Weight. We explored how to use different types of scales and used our skills to measure out ingredients to make Easter chocolate nests.
IDL and other
ZC sent in some photos from home to show us that she had been making porridge and gruel. She was comparing them and rated them out of 20! It is so nice to see the learning continuing at home too. RB and TK created a workhouse scene at after-school club. They had thought about the different facts we had learnt about the conditions in the workhouse. It showed a lot of detail. BW brought in his Beavers jumper and talked to us about the different badges that he has achieved. We are very proud of your hard work B.
Miss Mudd found a box of Victorian artefacts so we had a great afternoon looking at these and discussing their uses. We compared an old hot water bottle to a modern day one. We compared a metal iron to our electric ones. Some of the boys had a game of marbles and played with some Victorian toys.
We were also learning about Florence Nightingale and Victorian hospitals. We looked at some pictures of the conditions of the hospitals before Florence Nightingale tried to help. We learnt about the difference that she made to nursing and how many lives she had saved. We then spent some of the afternoon playing with the hospitals role play pack and comparing the instruments and equipment we have now to the past.
