We then learnt how to create one point perspective drawings and practiced the technique. | We enjoyed perfecting the technique. |
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This week we started our Mystery Book Club. Mystery Book Club is when Mrs Matthews wraps up a book she has especially selected for each group to read. Everyone was excited to open up and read their new books! Good use of these Learning Gems:We started our science lesson today by acting out the circulatory system on our playground. We then checked our understanding of the circulatory system by finishing off some sentence openers. Finally, we began an investigation into heart rates by making a pulsilogium (which was invented by Santorio Santorio). Good use of these learning gems:Today in DT we started practising our sewing skills in readiness for sewing our soft toys in a few weeks time. The main focus today was to practise threading a needle, tying a knot and then sewing a button on to a piece of felt. Hopefully the children will be able to use this skill to sew on any buttons that come off their clothes in the future! great use of these learning gems:This week in maths we continued to look at the bar model to help us solve addition and subtraction problems. Once we had got to grips with how we could use it to solve word problems - including measure and time problems, we used the same method to help us solve missing angle problems in triangles, on a straight line, around a point and in quadrilaterals. Good use of these learning gems:Some of our finished poems:Performing our poems:
GOOD USE OF THESE LEARNING GEMS:In PSHE we have been thinking about our wider community and considering what we are grateful for and putting ourselves in the shoes of others who are perhaps not as fortunate as we are. We read the book 'The Invisible' by Tom Percival which promoted lots of good discussions. GOOD USE OF THESE LEARNING GEMS:After lots of talk about what we had learnt in previous years about our body, we got started on learning about the circulatory system today - particularly focussing on the heart. We learnt some facts about the heart - identifying where it was in our body, what it is like inside and how it works in our body. The children then worked in groups to make a model of a heart, exploring how blood pumps in to the body through it. Good use of these learning gems:Today we started our first DT topic of the children where we will be making soft toys for our Reception buddies. First, we talked about the skills we would need in order to do make the toys. We then thought of some questions we could ask our buddies before looking at a range of soft toys, identifying the types of materials they are made from, the fillings they had as well as how their faces had been made. Good use of these learning gems:We started our maths learning a little differently this year by looking at bar models and how we can use them to help us solve word problems. First we looked at how bar models might look according to if they are representing additive, multiplicative or a mix of both of them. Following this, we then looked in more detail at additive problems. We talked about how, although a problem can be set in a different context or contain different numbers, they are often the same type of problem. The children came up with their own versions of problems before completing a range of questions that were all additive. Good use of these learning objectives: |
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