Summer 1
Week 1
In English we will be writing a nonsense poem based on the sublime, "The Owl And The Pussy-Cat" by Edward Lear. Here are the class looking at suffixes and matching them to their root word.
In Citizenship, the children looked at the importance of keeping your personal information private and not to be shared online. We did an activity where we decided what information was ok to be shared and which must be kept private. We also talked about how it is always so important to ask a trusted adult if you are not sure.
In PE we had a great yoga session today where the children impressed us all with their core strength, breathing and flexibility! We learnt 6 positions: The dolphin, the turtle, the seal, the boat, the jellyfish and the star fish! Afterwards, we had a bit of time for cosmic kids ninja turtle yoga which we all enjoyed!
In maths, we are doing statistics this week. We have looked at tally charts, pictographs block graphs and bar charts. Here is a great song we have enjoyed watching and listening to!
In English we have focused on some key grammar before beginning to plan and write our poem inspired by "The Owl And The Pussy-Cat." Here are the class using great oracy skills to explain opinions, discuss and work together to match rhyming words and decide if sentence are commands, questions or statements.
In DT we built paper prototypes of our hand puppet designs. We learnt that prototypes are used by designers to spot mistakes and to simplify designs. Many of us have realised that we will need to make the template of our hand a little larger to accommodate the stitching and that our designs may be a bit complicated to make in 3D. The next step for us is to learn how to sew a running stitch and then make our puppet for real out of felt and thread.
On Fridays in PE, our topic for this term is "Athletics". We will learn how to run faster, jumper longer, hurdle and throw javelins! In this lesson we focused on how to sprint by using the balls of our feet, using long strides and moving our arms from pocket to mouth. The children had a great time playing the run chase game!
