Spring 1
Happy New Year
The children impressed us by throwing themselves straight back into their learning after the Christmas break.
English
Our week started with the children becoming detectives and solving the clues to find out our new story for the term. The clues led us to the story of the 3 little pigs, but the story we are learning is called "The true story of the 3 little pigs" by Jon Scieszka. This is going to help us learn how to write using persuasive language.
Maths
This week, the children have been using their number bond knowledge and number facts to help them add and subtract within tens and bridging the ten.
Science
After learning about Charles Macintosh last half-term, the children performed some fair test experiments to find the best material to make a new waterproof coat.
Gymnastics
This half term we will be developing our skills and knowledge of how we can use our body to travel in different ways. This week we explored how we could combine last terms knowledge - high and low body parts, with changes of speed and balance to travel in a straight line. The children explored and came up with 3 different ways of moving and then practised moving between the 3 styles in a continuous movement whilst using apparatus.
Week 2
Computing
This half-term in computing, the children are learning how different types of music can be made for different effects using digital media. This week the children focussed on exploring rhythm and beats. By using Chrome music lab, the children were able to compose their own rhythms.
Gymnastic
This week, the children developed their knowledge of pivoting and the use of the tuck position to enhance their travelling pathways. The children were able to incorporate zig-zagging movement through the use of pivoting. We then looked at how the tuck position could be used to lead into doing bunny jumps and horse kicks. The children then incorporated these movements into their pathways.
English
What features are used in persuasive writing? This was one of the questions the children explored this week. We also explored the concept of writing from different viewpoints, being open to other people's opinions and how to use an apostrophe for contractions.
DT - Cooking
This week, the children developed their knowledge and skills by processing food. We recapped how to cut safely using the bridge, the claw, and the fork technique before learning how to dice, grate and juice different foods.
Week 3
Maths
This week in maths we focussed on time. We revisited telling the time by o'clock and half-past before developing our knowledge and learning to tell and show quarter past and quarter to. The children applied their fraction knowledge to help them and were able to solve some problems involving time.
English
This week the children have been working on planning, editing and publishing their persuasive letters to the Pig Prison where Alexander T Wolf is being held. The children have really captured the language needed to be persuasive and will be learning how to present their cases at the start of next week.
Computing
In computing this week, the children used Chrome music lab to explore how music can be used to convey emotions. The children drew their own pictures whilst listening to Gustav Holst's Neptune and then explored how placing different patterns and shapes composed different compositions.
Geography
Having learnt what classifies a desert last week, the children learnt where the hottest desert (The Sahara Desert) and the largest desert (Antarctica) are in the world in relation to their previous knowledge of the UK and other continents. The children learnt that the two deserts have contrasting extreme temperatures because of where they are in the world. To help with their understanding of the extreme temperatures, the children felt a warm cup of warm water, which failed to reach the 57 degrees Celsius of the Sahara. They then held an ice cube which recorded -1 degree Celsius, which made the Antarctic's -89 feel really warm!!
DT - Cooking
Ahead of the children creating their own recipes for our healthy picnic at the end of the term, the children compared different combinations of fruit and vegetables. The children thought about how the food looked, smelt and most importantly, tasted. There were clearly some popular options and some very unpopular options which I don't think will be making our menus!!
Week 4
Maths
This week we developed our knowledge of measurement by learning to estimate and measure mass using the standard units of grams and kilograms. The children used balancing scales to work out the weight of classroom objects. The children also learnt how to read measurement scales to work out the weight being shown of other items.
Christingle
On Wednesday, the children enjoyed learning about and making their own Christingles. The children learnt what each part signified as they made them. We then took them to the church, where the children stood at the front and lit their Christingles.
