Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Our New Maths Challenge

We have a new maths challenge in class today where we have to solve the number problem and then unlock the padlock with the correct answer key.... We have to use our partitioning skills and our understanding of hundreds tens and units.


Big Write Star of the Week


Kacey
Kacey produced a fantastic story with a wonderful imagination. She always has a clear sequence of events, uses all her VCOP skills and includes a wide range of high level punctuation. She also has fantastic handwriting!


Monday, 27 January 2014

PSHE - Circle Time 'Push Up' Web!

Today in our PSHE lesson we had a circle time session as a class. We began by singing our circle time song and passing around a friendly hug, before making our 'Push Up' web. In class our target is to give each other a 'Push Up through the day.

A 'Push Up' is where you say something kind to somebody else to lift them up through out the day... for example, Ben told Edward 'When you were writing on the independent table your writing was really neat!'. Shannon told Maddison 'You look really nice today especially with your pretty headband'.

All these things can make other peoples days better and lift their spirits. Our 'Push Up' web was made by one person starting with the ball of string and rolling the string to another person while giving them a push up. This person then holds the piece of string and then rolls it to another person and gives them a push up. This ball of string goes round the whole class until everybody is holding a piece of string and we are all tied together with the web!

We enjoyed giving each other push ups and it made each of us smile!! Can you give someone at home a push up too? Here are the pics...










Sunday, 26 January 2014

Visual Literacy - Bubbles by Gabriela Zapata

Next week in literacy we are going to be watching this piece of visual literacy called 'Bubbles' by Gabriela Zapata. Well will look at the story and then have some real bubbles in our classroom that we will imagine we can float away on. You can watch the story here and think of some ideas ready for our lessons!!



 

Learning Logs - Setting Sail on a Galleon

Our last learning log was to use your imagination and VCOP skills to imagine you were setting sail on a pirate ship, where would you go and what would happen? There were so many interesting and exciting ideas, I really enjoyed looking at them all!! Here they are!!!

Big Write Star 24th January 2014



Rose D
Rose never fails to produce a fantastic piece of writing, she is really trying to get her level 3 VCOP words and punctuation into each piece, her handwriting is always beautiful and she has a great imagination.

Thursday, 23 January 2014

Tu B'shevat

In topic this week we have been learning about Tu B'shevat as part of our R.E work on the Jewish religion. Tu B'shevat is a celebration of the new year for trees and we planted our own trees, tasted the fruit of the trees and wrote our own wishes for the trees in Israel.

Here are a few photos of us learning all about the celebration.
 
 
You can explore this website that tells you more about Tu B'shevat and other Jewish traditions and celebrations... click HERE