In reading, we have started our new book called: The Firework Maker’s Daughter. Before we started to read this book, we completed an observe, wonder and infer lesson to spark our imaginations about what might happen in the story. To observe, we used the front cover to write down all the things we could see. …
In Red Kites this morning, we have been working on tracking and editing our writing. To do this we worked in pairs to edit a WABOLL (what a bad one looks like). We looked for missing capitals letters, full stops and commas between adjectives. We also identified the prepositions used within the text and tried …
This week we have been looking at some different volcanic art. Woodpeckers have now created some of their own artwork. Some of the children used felt tips and other used paint to add colour to their volcano artwork.
In Woodpeckers this morning, we spent some time focusing on our three times tables. As you can see, we got a bit carried away and it turned into a times tables party! We listened to some catchy times tables songs and showed off our best singing and dance moves. After, we played a few games …
This week in Woodpeckers, we have turned into news reporters, reporting on the latest volcanic eruptions happening on Earth! To begin with, we learned all about how volcanic eruptions happen, discussing each step from the beginning in the magma chamber, to the final eruption out of the main and secondary vents. Then, we set off …
Today, we read Chapter 3 of the Chronicles of Narnia and discussed how the characters in our story might be feeling so far. In groups, the children were given a picture of a setting which they had to study. The children had to consider the following: What might you see here? What can be heard? …
Today, we have read the third chapter of our reading book, Captain Crow’s Teeth. In this chapter, our main character, Will, went to the Sprats’ Jig with his brother Marty even though he ‘hates dancing!’ Woodpeckers task was to analyse our main character by considering Will’s appearance and external feelings and his internal feelings. We …
This morning we have been using rulers, tape measurers and metre sticks to measure different objects in the classroom. Lots of children were even keen to measure themselves and their partners to work out their height! The children have written these measurements down on their whiteboards using the correct unit of measurement (mm, cm and …
Our new topic this term is Planet Earth. In this topic we will learn about volcanoes, earthquakes, tectonic plates, the Ring of Fire, rivers and the water cycle. To kick our new topic off, this afternoon we created our own volcanoes. We watched a short video to learn how to create a volcano using black …
In our class, we have been looking at the digestive system. We labelled an image of our digestive system and discussed how it works. We discussed new vocabulary such as Oesophagus, Pancreas, and the small and large Intestines. There was another new word which the class found very funny – why don’t you ask them …