This week we have been learning all about Chinese New Year. We read a story about the Chinese Zodiac and we loved hearing about the animals that were the year we were born.  For our Wordboost work we learned words from the book Dragons in the City. We made our own red envelopes and completed different tasks during Choosing Our Own Learning.

In literacy, we have been learning the sounds ‘ch’ and ‘sh’. We have been very confident at reading words with these sounds and spelling words. On Friday, we had different pictures on pancakes and we had to write the word on our whiteboards. Then we flipped the pancakes to check we had written the word correctly.  In our writing area, lots of people have been writing about the story of the Chinese Zodiac.

In maths, we learned about ordinal numbers and we looked at the order the animals won the race in the Chinese Zodiac story.  We have also been learning about half and how the two pieces are equal. On Friday, we got to cut a pancake in half and then we got to eat it!

In PE, we have finished our block of gymnastics by using all our different skills on the equipment. We were very good at remembering how to land safely when we jump.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Tyler T – I enjoyed doing things for Chinese New Year.

Sophia – I enjoyed playing on the smartboard.

Daisy – I enjoyed writing in the writing area.

Vikashini – I enjoyed doing Spanish.

Zuraib – I enjoyed playing outside.

Congratulations to Daisy who is our Reading Champion this week and to Tyler T who is our Hot Chocolate Winner.