Summer 1 Groovy Greeks
Week 5
Well done to our Golden Book winners of the week. You are all super stars and we are extremely proud of you!
In English, we have started writing character descriptions about Medusa. We worked together to unscramble sentences to help build our understanding of sentence composition and punctuation.
In maths we have been learning about mass. We used the scales to weigh objects in our classroom.
In citizenship, we have been discussing E-safety and how to be safe online and in the wider world. We worked together to discuss every day responsibilities and who we could trust to help us with them.
Week 4
Well done to our Golden Book winners of the week. You are all super stars and we are extremely proud of you!
In art this week we learned how to make relief prints. Use this link to try it out at home.
The Borrowers have been honing out tennis skills ready for Wimbledon season! We have been practising our forehand and backhand techniques in particular.
Week 3
Well done to our Golden Book winners of the week. You are all super stars and we are extremely proud of you!
We received a reply from Cadburys from our letter asking them to stop using palm oil! We are very proud of ourselves for making a change and we used the £2 voucher that they sent us to buy some palm oil free cookies! We enjoyed these in the forest during our class wide reward celebration.
Our class wide reward was a lovely celebration in the sunshine! We enjoyed what felt like the first day of spring and took our books up to read in the orchard. We also played some role play games in the forest and had lots of competing restaurant chains.
in art this week we have been learning more printing skills. We made block prints using different materials. We also did some leaf printing in forest school.
In guided reading we have been continuing to read the Greek myths. This week we looked at a graphic novel style of book. We summarised the 12 tasks of Heracles in our own comics.
In writing, we have been working on writing persuasive letters to the fly to try and convince her not to enter the Spider's parlour. We worked together to make sure that we were sharing ideas and keeping our sentences clear and accurate.
GREEK DAY As part of our Greek Day, we looked at examples of Greek pottery and what they told us about the Olympics. We then created our our own Greek inspired pot designs using chalk, black paint and pastels!
We had a lovely time in the forest school taking part in a quiz about Greek Gods and Goddesses! We are now experts!
Week 2
Well done to our Golden Book winners of the week. You are all super stars and we are extremely proud of you!
We have started printing skills this week for our artwork focussing on printmaker, Delita Martin. We started with monoprinting and linked this with our work on Greek Myths by using images of the ferocious Minotaur!
In English, we used Thesauruses to help us learn synonyms to describe the devious Spider in our Poem, The Spider and the Fly. Can you think of a synonym for devious?
In history we learned about the Trojan war and acted out the main events. It was fun using our bodies to make the horse!
Use this link to learn more about the Trojan War.
Week 1
Well done to our Golden Book winners of the week. You are all super stars and we are extremely proud of you!
This week in maths we have been learning about perimeter. We measured the perimeter of some of our classroom equipment using centimetres and then we went outside to measure the perimeter of our playground using metres. We looked for efficient methods to help us calculate the perimeter of a rectangle or a square.
In computing, we have started using Scratch to learn about coding. We learned how to import and new sprite, make our sprites move and change the background on our dashboard. Use the link to have a go at home!
We have started learning 'The Spider and the Fly' in English and worked in teams to perform the poem using expression and emphasis. We then bravely performed to the class!