In science we have been looking into fossils and how they are made and who discovered them. We have learnt that when an animal dies and is buried by sediment, and then the soft parts of the animal decay or decompose, followed by more sediment and compression until its forms rock. Bones start to be dissolved by water underground and the minerals in the water then turn to rock. We made some imprints of shells into salt dough to recreate how a fossil looks. Team AC have really enjoyed their learning today in science. We also looked into Mary Anning who discovered fossils.
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Literacy - Letter writing, learning subordinating conjunctions. Writing poetry with Conrad to celebrate Nation Poetry day.
Geography - Fact finding about South America. Maths - more fraction work, recapping what we already know, and adding and subtracting fractions. 4 times table practice. Art - Starting to make tie dye t-shirts and designing rain stick (please send in any tubes you have at home, thank you) Introduction into sewing starting with a running stitch. R.E - Ramadan - looking into the festival and what it means for the people who celebrate it. Colouring in prayer mats and writing something we are grateful for. We also gave up our jumpers or cardigans for an alternative we would usually wear on Wednesday. This was the first day of Ramadan where they give up food (fast) between dawn and sunset. P.E - continuing skills in hockey and cheerleading. Science - re capping the rock cycle. Looking more in depth into fossils and how they are made. Researching Mary Anning the lady who first discovered fossils in Lyme Regis. This week to celebrate the National poetry day we had a very special visitor in school to work with all the children in each year group.
Conrad Burdekin - a creative writer, poet and friend of park street came in to create wonderful poems with our children. It's safe to say the children thoroughly enjoyed it and created some amazing poetry. Year 2 children's poem Pizza Get the pizza from the shop hold it tight and do not drop! Take it home with a STOMP! STOMP! STOMP! Gobble it down with a CHOMP! CHOMP! CHOMP! Year 3 Children's poem Let's go to the globe Watch a play William Shakespeare Here today Juliet spoke from high above "Romeo! Romeo! I'm in love!" Amazing poems team AC, Well done! Well Red nose day at Park street was an absolute blast. First thing in team AC we took a photo of every child pulling their silliest face! (This made us all laugh) what we did with them will be on show soon...watch this space. Throughout the rest of the day children had some juice, made their own red nose day biscuit and played some games. After dinner the most exciting race since the Olympics happened with teachers and TA's taking part, votes were cast by the children and Mr Smith and Mr Davidson were the favourites.... but to level the playing field they had some extra clothing to wear... haha be sure to spot it on out photos or ask the children if they haven't already told you all about it. What a wonderful day we had! In our ICT lessons this half term we have been learning how to programme out beebot with instructions to get it to move in the directions we want them to go. The children are all really enjoying the topic and getting the hang of it.
This week KS1 were lucky enough to have a visit from an animal workshop!
Team AC had an amazing morning looking at some lovely animals and creatures, we got to see: lion haired rabbit chinchilla tortoise lizard millipede hedgehog skinny pig and a snake. The children had a really good time touching, stroking and holding them and we got to learn lots of new things about them too. As we were snowed off Thursday and Friday last week this will be the last two weeks learning:
Maths - assessment practice, 4 times tables, fractions and knowing how to apply this to both numbers and shapes. Last weeks focus quarters this weeks recapping quarters and learning thirds. I.C.T - using the beebots, programming and creating commands to move the beebot around the map. Key vocabulary: sequence, order, algorithm and commands. P.E - Tuesdays: Hockey, learning how to dribble and pass, lots of partner practice work. Thursdays: cheerleading, learning individual moves, putting moves into a sequence to perform a cheerleading routine. Literacy - Creative writing, expanding noun phrases. Introducing new vocabulary and learning the meaning of the words. Creating sentences using our new vocabulary. Reading a new book 'A planet full of plastic.' Geography - looking at the physical and human features of Brazil. Science - setting up experiments overtime, watch this space.... Art - Making cards for special people. International Women's Day - researching and writing about influential women throughout the ages. Celebrating women and understanding they can achieve the same as men and the fight for equal rights. Red Nose Day - Celebrating and raising money to support Red Nose Day. This half term we are learning hockey skills. We have been practicing passing the ball between partners, and some dribbling and control skills passing the ball through cones. The children are really enjoying learning a new game and new skills and seem to have a flair for it. Here are a few photos of what they have been doing.
Geography - recognising and understanding human and physical features of another country (South America) Label a continent map using their knowledge and using an atlas.
Literacy - working more on noun phrases to help our creative writing. Spanish - saying different vegetable names in Spanish. Maths - working on 4 times table. Work on finding quarters of numbers and shapes, three quarters of numbers and shapes. Looking at fractions and symmetry. P.E - looking at a basic cheerleading routine. World book day - Learning about new books, writers and characters in books. KC - My favourite lesson is maths, because it's fun, interesting and I learn new things all the time.
I like art, colouring and sketching are my favourite things to do, I enjoy colouring people with coloured pencils. I don't like science because we had to learn about rocks and I found it a bit boring. I love feel good Fridays we get to wear sporty clothes and I feel comfortable. ER - My favourite lesson is History because I like learning all about people I don't know about in the past. I like quiet reading time, I like that it is quiet and I can concentrate. My favourite grown up in school is Miss Hodgson because she is always so happy and really helpful and helped me a lot. I have good friends at school, Eva, Holly and Millie make me happy in school, we have friend handshakes. |
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