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In English we wrote a letter to Ms Davenport to say whether we like wearing school uniform or whether we could stop wearing it. We had to persuade Ms Davenport to agree with us.  (Evie, Madeline and Charlie)

On Tuesday we listened to different genres of music and we thought about the different rhythms, for example short, short, long sounds.(Can you demonstrate?) We listened to an African sung at weddings, where the singer clicks in their throat to make some of the sounds.  (Isla, Evie and Isabella)

In maths all week we have been learning how to deal with different amounts of money, adding and taking away.  (Evie)  We had pictures and went to a ‘shop’ to buy different items.  We had to add the amounts together to find the total.  (Primrose)  Today we had to find change, by taking amounts away.

In IT we practised logging on to Purple Mash and used Science and Geography apps. (Madeline)

Yesterday and today, we have been designing a new pizza restaurant,  to help out Pippa Pepperoni who wants to open a new restaurant in King’s Lynn. (Blake)  We had to make a poster about the restaurant (Peter).  We had to think about all the facilities that the restaurant should have (Lacie D) and design some of them including a menu (Alfie)

During guided reading some of us have been learning about Russia. Frankie says it has the deepest lake, the longest river in Europe and it is the biggest country in the world. 

Today we have been out on our bikes (Harry) and we have been learning how to overtake (Ruby) and some of us have been practising how to bike with one hand! (Thalia). Some people were a little bit wobbly!

I loved it when we did maths with the coins and numicon. We had to make an amount shown. (Lacey T)

I liked writing sentences using the power of three. (Evie)

I liked it when we saw Miss Riddington who visited for a while and using the i-pads to log onto Purple Mash.(Isabella)

I liked it when we wrote our own stories. My idea was a Sonic story. (Frankie)

I liked it in PE when we had to find different ways to travel around hoops. (Lacie D)

We celebrated World Book Day. I liked dressing up as magical and clever when I dressed as Hermione Granger. (Isla)

I liked making cards. (Reggie)

We enjoyed going on the bikes and practising balancing and steering. (Lily-Rose and Kaia)

We liked listening to different genres of music and picking out different instruments used and the rhythm. (The whole class)

I liked answering questions in the booklets when we read in guided reading. We read about Mary Anning. (George)

We have enjoyed learning about Mongolia and reading a book about Erdene who lived in a ger. (whole class)

In geography we have been learning about the world and its continents. We looked at maps and labelled the continents. We learnt a song to remember the 7 continents.

Lily-Rose and Zach enjoyed learning about getting a good night’s sleep and how to calm before going to bed. Evie said that she uses a special spray that smells nice and helps her relax and go to sleep. Charlie listens to calming music through his headphones.

Eriks liked the maths lessons where we learnt about 2D shapes. We have used geoboards and i-pad apps to make shapes and then drew shapes on dotted paper. (Frankie)

In English Ella S liked writing a description of a jungle setting using adjectives, nouns, similes, verbs and adverbs.

Ruby and Madeline liked learning about habitats and how there are different food chains. We learnt that a food chain needs to begin with the sunlight and a plant. The plant is the producer and then consumers (animals) then follow in the food chain. (Dexter, George, Reggie) Henry liked sorting animals and plants into a food chain and drawing out his own for display.

In PE, Isla liked using the apparatus to complete sequences that we had practised the week before. We had to use a jump, a balance, a roll and a shape. Prim’s favourite part was walking on the bench and balancing before jumping off.

Harry liked watching our gymnastics team show their sequence in assembly. Well done to Ella T and Isla who represented the school and came first in the competition. Ella liked going to use the apparatus at Eagles gymnastic club.

In Art, Thalia said that we had to paint a background using hot or cold colours. We had to mix the paints to make darker and lighter shades. We painted in stripes getting lighter as we worked down the page. We then had to add animals and plants using colours that were camouflaged onto the picture.

In PSHE we had to think about our goals for the future and what we want to do when we grow up. We wrote these ideas on some log discs and decorated them. (Bella)

In Science we have been learning about animals and their habitats. We went on a mini beast hunt searching for them in different habitats. We went in the forest area and searched under leaves, bark, logs, twigs, on trees and in the hedgerow.  (Reggie)

Isla, Thalia and Ella S found a slug on a log.  Madeline, Kaia and Bella also found a slug on the play area. Lacie, Charlie, Henry and Alfie found four worms underneath a log.  Charlie saw a fly.  Isabella, Eliana, Ella and Ruby found 5 worms and two spiders. Alfie saw a millipede We had to think of words to describe the habitat that they were living in. These words included dark, damp, cold, wet, moist, dry, light. Later on in the week, we learned about camouflage.  We then had to place different coloured paper somewhere in the classroom where it would be easily camouflaged. We repeated this by putting it somewhere it would be easily seen.  We then played a game to show how species evolve and become camouflaged in their habitat.

George liked learning about the leaf bug and how it can camouflage like a leaf. 

Blake liked seeing how a frog can blend in with some brown leaves. 

Evie liked it when we searched for different coloured lolly pop sticks (representing snakes) in the grass and had to see which ones were easier and harder to find.  We plotted it on the graph and saw that green was less easy to find. 

In maths, Charlie liked making a graph with our bodies to show our class favourite colour.  We then also made a block graph to show this.

Prim enjoyed going on a traffic survey. We walked to the main road and had to complete a tally to show the number of vehicles that passed by in ten minutes.

In PE, Frankie liked doing a warm up playing red, amber, green game. We had to balance when we stopped for red.  George and Isla liked making a sequence of 4 in gymnastics. The children had to include a jump, a balance, a roll and a shape.

In English, Madeline enjoyed writing her own quest story. We have also started to learn and study a story called Lost in the Jungle.  We have put the story into 5 parts, The beginning, build up, problem, resolution and ending.  In drama, we created freeze frames for the different parts of the story.

We have had another busy week. Mrs Kimber has taught all of our maths lessons this week. We have learned about tally charts and pictograms. (Isla)

I liked counting up the pictures and creating a tally chart to show the results. (George)

I liked our science lesson where we recognised what makes something living, dead and never lived. (Evie)

An example of a living thing is a bee,(Harry)  something dead is a dry leaf fallen from a tree (Lacey T) something that has never lived is a lamppost. (Thalia)

In English we have been learning how to follow and write instructions. We began the week making a fruit salad as part of our DT objective.  We were shown how to use a knife safely to cut up pieces of fruit. (Frankie) We cut up the fruit and placed it in a cup. Before we made the salad we had to wash our hands and make sure that the cup was clean. (Prim) Afterwards we wrote up instructions to make a fruit salad.

In Art, we continued to learn about Lowry. We then created our own city/town paintings to show buildings and matchstick people. (Lacie D)

We also had to create secondary colours when colour mixing. (Reggie)

In PE, we have been listening to music about the ocean and then creating dance sequences to represent dolphins, whales, turtles, fish and seaweed. (Charlie and Kaia)

In PSHE, we were thinking about our long term goals. We had to thinka bout jobs we would like to do when we grow up (Blake)  Ella wants to be a hairdresser, Isabella wants to be an accountant, Ella T and Prim want to be a teachers, Madeline wants to be a midwife, George and Dexter want to be footballers, Frankie wants to be a designer, Blake wants to play guitar in a band, Lacey T wants to be a you tuber and Evie wants to be a rock star. Alfie wants to be a builder and a dad.

In Geography we thought about what is good about where we live and what we would like if we lived somewhere else. (All)

We have come back after a very enjoyable Christmas holiday to find out that our new topic this term is “Changing Landscapes” This will be very much focussed on geography and science. 

This week we designed, drew and coloured in topic book covers, showing different landscapes. (Isabella)

We have been using new handwriting books and trying very hard to form and join our letters properly and neatly. I enjoyed my handwriting lesson. (Lacey T)

In maths, I liked using the bar method to help me divide. (Charlie)

I enjoyed our PE lesson where we had to create dance movements and sequences pretending to be waves in the ocean. (Thalia)

I liked learning about what a settlement is. It is a place where people live and work and there are buildings and facilities there. (George)

We have found out what the difference is between a city, town, village and hamlet. A city is the largest and a hamlet is the smallest settlement.(Harry)

I liked writing instructions for how to collect and put our coats on. (Lacie D)

I liked following the instructions for putting our coats on. (Madeline)

In PSHE we had to work together as a team. (George)

Today we will be looking at our science investigation to observe what has happened to different materials left in salty water. We will then record our findings and discuss how ocean waves can impact on how materials degrade. (Mrs Buckley)

Dexter – I loved learning about Anderson Shelters.

Frankie – I enjoyed swimming.

Evie – I enjoyed making poppies for remembrance with Mrs Child.

Lacie – I enjoyed Maths. I liked showing the working out when we add 10’s together.

Isla – I liked learning the times tables. I am good at 10’s.

Prim – I enjoyed when we had to take out the ‘o’ in our spellings and learnt a rhyme.

Alfie – I liked watching the film of tanks and ww2 aeroplanes.

Lacey –

George – I enjoyed measuring with rulers. I liked drawing the lines longer and shorter. In Centimetres.

Lily-Rose – It was fun to write thank you letters to the people who showed us around last week on our trip.