Just like that we are into the Summer Term! This week, we have began a new unit in English on Greek Myths and Stories. This relates to our new topic we are learning for this term, ‘The Ancient Greeks’. We came into our classroom to find bright coloured feathers around the room – this related to the myth Daedalus and Icarus! We looked at negative numbers in maths and conexts we may find these in. Finally, we had PSHE afternoons this week, and in PE we started tennis.
This week in Wonderland Class, we have completed our term’s topic ‘Guardians of the Planet’, by creating an animation of a food chain or a plant life cycle. We did this on a flip book first, then using the chromebooks and finally evaluated our creations. We made planting machines out of cardboard in DT – it was very fiddly, but we persevered! We also had a fun parent event on Wednesday afternoon, celebrating Easter with an ‘Easter Eggstravaganza’. Have a lovely break Wonderland Class and we will see you in the summer term!
This week, we have began a new unit on persuasive writing in English – we’re persuading Greenpeace to believe we have a whale in our pond! In maths, we have started looking at money as decimal numbers and how we can round 99p to £1! We finished learning about food chains and animal categories in science, and finished the week learning about Buddhism in RE. 1 more week to go!
This week in Wonderland Class, we finished our unit of ‘The Tale of the Whale’ by writing our own narrative based on the story. In maths we rounded and compared decimal numbers with tenths. In topic, we created our own botanical artwork inspired by Marianne North – a victorian artist who travelled the world painting new, undiscovered plants and pieces of nature. Finally, we also celebrated Red Nose Day by wearing something red on Friday.
In English this week, we began writing a narrative about ‘The Tale of the Whale’ and have used our knowledge about the sea and animals that we learnt last week on our sea life centre trip. We have started looking at decimal numbers in maths, focusing on tenths this week. We finished our science unit about plants and completed an experiment on how flowers and celery absorb water using food colouring. We had a fun end to our week, with World Book Day, where we dressed as our favourite book character.
What a fun first week back we have had! We began practising writing and performing a rap in English, where we had to rhyme words. We also took a trip to the Sealife Centre in Great Yarmouth, where we saw rays, turtles, sharks, penguins, starfish, seahorse and lots more. We also completed our topic authentic outcome by creating sculptures out of junk with the help of our adults from home! Safe to say. have a well deserved rest this weekend, Wonderland!
Wow, it is the last week of term, and how busy have we been! We finished writing our balanced argument about pollution, we recorded a podcast on climate change and performed the song ‘big yellow taxi’ all about the world changing. We also looked at numbers to 10,000 in maths by representing and partitioning. A well deserved rest, well done Wonderland Class!
It’s been a very exciting week in Wonderland Class! On Wednesday through to Friday, most of us went to Hilltop Outdoor Centre, and well didn’t we have a great time! We completed many fun adventurous activities and made great memories. The rest of us stayed at school and completed a climate change piece of artwork, which we were allowed free reign over – we produced fantastic pieces indeed! We also went swimming Friday as usual, which was lots of fun as well!
This week, we have started composing a podcast in topic, about the impacts of climate change. We used our topic knowledge and research skills to write a script on this, and we will be recording these next week. In maths, we have been learning to exchange when subtracting- this is beause we don’t have enough ones, tens or hundreds in the column to subtract, so we exchange from the column on the left so we can subtract. We also finished writing our letter to Greta Thunberg in writing.
This week, we have started a new unit in English – letter writing to Greta Thunberg! We were busy in art creating collages of the Earth, using 4 collage techniques – tessilation, mosaic, montage and over lapping techniques. In maths, we continued to find the difference between numbers and used bar models, part whole models and word problems to challenge our thinking.
