The children were asked to pick the main areas that we should blog about this week. Here is what they have chosen.
Maths – we have been looking at rounding numbers to 10, 100, 1000 and decimal places. We used a variety of resources to help us with this and some produced short PowerPoint presentations with voice recordings, of themselves explaining how to round, embedded in their presentation (very technical!) or video recordings showing rounding. We also launched our Maths Learning Glass Wall , this allows us to record our learning over the course of the week which will then be photographed and stored in our talking book as evidence of our learning and progress. Everyone loved having a turn to WRITE on the WALL. Here is our photograph this week to share,
Topic – we have chosen the focus for our country study for the next four weeks…USA. The children took a vote and the USA came out on top. As part of our learning wall the children have their Pupil Voice which allows them to help shape what we are learning, this week the question they were asked was “What do you want to learn about the USA?” There are some super responses and it looks like it is going to be a great topic!
Literacy – As part of our novel study we have been learning about Medieval Times and this has led us to learn about King Arthur, focusing on the story of the Sword In The Stone and how the young boy Arthur became King! We wrote our newspaper reports about this and we are really pleased with our efforts. Here are a few of the Headlines or Orientation sentences,
“The Sword Has Spoken!” (Moiz)
“The true King has arrived, pulling the sword from the stone.” (Mark)
“A new King has been throned after pulling out the sword Excalibur at St Paul’s Cathedral” (Darryn)
“The New King” (Aaron)
“Arthur Is Adopted” (Kornelia)
“Yes, there is a new King, he has pulled the sword from the stone.” (Ross)
Next week the children are on holiday on Monday and Tuesday therefore homework will only consist of reading. Our writing next week will be a letter to President Obama, telling information we have learned about the White house and asking him some questions about what he will miss about being President. To prepare for this lesson try to find out one fact about the White House and post a reply.
Next week on Wednesday it is International Day of Peace. We will be marking this in class with a minute silence at 12 noon. This silence is marked around the world at 12 noon creating a wave of silence due to the different time zones.
I hope everyone enjoys their long weekend.
Mrs Currie
