Richard Heywood

Our new topic is Hot and Cold.  We have been learning about the different countries that are hot and cold.  To help us we have been practising our map skills. We have looked at maps in an atlas.  We now know that there are 7 continents and 5 oceans in the world.

In our challenge time, we made snow globes and snowflakes to decorate the classroom.

In maths we have been resilient and resourceful.  We have learnt how to partition numbers and used this to help us add.  We have been resilient because we have continued to keep trying until we have got better at this. We also have worked collaboratively to solve sums together. Today we were able to solve word problems using what we had learnt and were all put on silver because of our continued hard work.

In English we have been reading poems.  We have worked collaboratively to write our own spine poems about a snowflake.  Later in the week we worked independently to write an acrostic poem.

We have been very creative and have made lots of animals for our rainforest display.  We used pastel, collage and paint to draw and decorate these. For our Inuit display, we sketched people and animals and then used water colour paints to decorate. Miss Davenport thought our displays looked great!

In maths we have been learning how to recognise which number is greater than another.

32 > 15

15 < 32

We also have learnt how to add ten to a number. We have been resourceful using numicon and number lines to help us.  We have been resilient by practising how to add a 2 digit number using a number line.

In English, we have continued to write instructions.  We have worked collaboratively to think up ideas.  We have been creative writing our own instructions on how to wash, train or look after our mythical woodland creature.

In PE we have been resilient trying and trying to improve our exercises.  Mrs Ash has set us a challenge to complete in 2 weeks!

On Thursday, we had the fire service visit and we learnt how to escape from  a fire safely.  We also learnt about tools and equipment on board the fire engine.  We have been reflective  using what we learnt from the day to help us with our instruction writing.

We have been learning about 2D shapes this week and have been very creative by turning some of them into firework pictures using black paper and pastels.  Some shapes have straight sides and others have curved sides. We also looked at the shapes to see where their lines of symmetry are and then used paper shapes to find fractions of the shapes.

Earlier in the week we were curious learners discovering lots of facts about Guy Fawkes.  We found out that he wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament because some people did not like the King, King James I. We celebrate the event on the 5^th of November which is when the plot failed in 1605.

We have also been practising our retelling of How To Wash A Woolly Mammoth and were very creative in the actions we used to remind us about the order of the instructions.

This week we have tested our bodies with exercise activities to see what happens to our bodies.  We found out that running faster makes us sweat, breathe quicker and makes us thirsty. (Amber and Riley) We also learnt that some items are dangerous and some are safer. We talked about how dangerous things need to go on a top shelf so that we cannot touch or spray them.  These include: calpol, bleach, deodorant, tablets, medical spray and razors.

In English we have written our own version of Little Red Riding Hood.  We changed the characters, setting and who was being visited.  We have written some amazing stories.

Today we had the Garlic Puppet Theatre visit to tell the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff.  “It was funny,” said Isaac, “ It was cool,” said Amelia, “ I found out that the goats sounded different because they wore different kinds of bells on them.” Esme

In maths we have been learning division.  We have practised sharing by 2, 5, 10.

In music we listened to a song and hummed or clapped the beat back. (Amelia)