We are continuing with our English work on Nelson Mandela. Our focus now is recount writing. We are focusing on the time in Mandela's life when he was held prison on the harsh prison island of Robben Island (between 1964 and 1982). We have been putting ourselves into Mandela's shoes, imagining what it was like to be him. We even have a cell marked out in the classroom to give us a visual idea of just how small his cell was! We will be writing diary entires and used role play to rehearse our ideas ready to write some amazing recounts, but firstly we have written poems imagining that we are Mandela in his cell. Performing our poems: | |
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We have been working hard on our French topic 'En Vacances' since the beginning of the year and today we put all the words and phrases we had been learning together to write postcards that included where we had been and what we had done on an imaginary holiday. The children worked really hard making sure they had spelt the French words correctly and also practiced saying these words and phrases.
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Good use of these Learning Gems:As it was Maths Week England this week, we decided to try some maths puzzles in STEM. The children were really excited about trying the puzzles out and showed great determination to find the solutions. By the end of the lesson we had only managed to solve one puzzle but one child was so determined to complete the other one that, whilst waiting for their sibling to come out of their class at the end of the day, they worked on the puzzle with their dad. Well done! Good use of these learning gems:Today we took part in a live lesson by EncouterEdu. The children listened to scientists based in Curaco and England talking about sharks and how their different adaptations allowed them to be apex predators. The class listened well and found out lots of interesting facts about types of sharks. Following the live lesson they carried out a short investigation to explore the shape of sharks, comparing how quickly different shapes can move through the water. Good use of these learning gems:For the last 2 weeks we have been working on producing a textile based patchwork quilt. The first week was spent dip dyeing our square of fabric and then this week we designed our own square on paper and then on a smaller prototype square. Once we were happy with the design we transferred it onto our final fabric square, making changes and improvements if needed. Our aim was to use permanent fabric markers to create a Hundertwasser style pattern or pictures over the top of the dip dyed fabric. Dip Dyeing Our Fabric SquaresAdding Detail to our Fabric SquaresHere is what our work looks like so far:Great use of these learning Gems:We started a new RE unit this week all about the teachings of Hinduism. In todays lesson we were finding out about Moksha and the different pathways Hindus aim to follow to reach this goal.
During STEM this week the children created pouncing animals by blowing up a balloon, creating static electricity by rubbing the balloon against their jumper and then putting it close to a tissue paper animal! After everyone had got their equipment ready we test them out to se how high up we could hold the balloon to attract the animals. Some animals were able to jump really high! Next time, we will need a ruler to investigate this more accurately.
good use of these learning gems:Today we explored some of the different ways remainders could be used in division calculations. The children practiced showing the remainders differently before exploring word problems where they had to work out exactly how the remainder should be shown in the answer. good use of these learning gems:In Guided Reading we have been studying 'Skellig' by David Almond. Today we used our interpreting and retrieval skills to sketch our on vision of what Skellig looks like. We retrieved passages from the text to help us and then interpreted what had been written to create an image.
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