Science
Our new theme is Fighting Fit. We talked about how humans grow and how we have changed since we were a baby. We then started a comparative test to see if older children had bigger feet. We went round different classes to measure the feet of different children and then measured them in cm. In our…
English - Instructions
Our English lesson on Halloween was to listen to and follow instructions to draw a bat and a pumpkin. It was great fun. We will now be learning the features of instructions and learning to write our own instructions.
Online Safety
This week we have been talking about how to keep safe online. We completed a questionnaire where we had to answer how we go online, what we watch and share and what we play and see.
Athletics
We enjoyed starting the new half term with our first Athletics lesson.
Music
We really enjoyed our music lessons this week. We talked about the difference between sounds and music. We listened to some music and talked about how it made us feel. Our favourites were - The Lions Sleeps Tonight and Three Little Birds by Bob Marley. Check out the links to listen to them at…
Printing in Art
This week we looked at the artist William Morris. We then turned one of our drawings of the trim trail into a print, by using Quickprint technique.
Home Learning Challenges
We had some super entries to our home learning challenge to design a new playground. We love to see learning that has taken place at home.
Computing
We enjoyed our first multimedia lesson, with some of us using the computers and some of us on iPads. We were set a challenge to use Busy Things publisher to present some information on pirates. We had to use the keyboard to type and the mouse to draw. We learnt how to save our work to continue…
Geography
This week we learnt how to make a map of our route to the park and we even had some Ordnance Survey symbols.
PE
In PE we continued with our different warm up activities before working in small groups to try to represent different items through dance. We had to be stars and chocolate.
Geography
We have been learning how to read a map. We worked in pairs to label a map of Tanhouse.
Maths
We have been working on our adding this week. This is something you could work on at home. First children need to be able to add single digit numbers e.g 4 + 3 = 7 + 6 =. Then two digit numbers and 1 digit numbers e.g 12 + 4 = 14 + 5 = 13 + 9. After that we move onto adding tens e.g 24 + 20 = 35 +…