This week has been busy as always with the class taking on their final assessment week in Team CB. It has been truly delightful to see how well our children have performed - attacking anything that has been put in front of them and ultimately showing what brilliant learners they have become over the course of this year. I hope each and every member of the team feels proud of themselves for giving their all at all points this year - I know all staff in Team CB certainly are feeling very proud! Elsewhere in our learning, we have been busy this week exploring capacity. We have taken our learning outdoors and created our own human scales of 1, 2 and 5 to help us understand how we can count and calculate smaller intervals on a scale. The class thoroughly enjoyed this and it really supported their visual learning back in class when asked to read and interpret scales. We have worked hard on finding missing values and also adding and subtracting volumes. Over the coming weeks, we will begin to look at shape in more detail for our Maths learning. In our writing we have been working towards writing a letter to Boris Johnson to demand change and prevent plastic pollution in our seas. This is something that the children have shown a huge passion for within their writing and they are just in the process of constructing their letters which I am sure will make a fantastically compelling read when they are completed. We have also been busy in our Science this week, we have been looking closely at classification and how we can classify things in different ways. This week we have spent time classifying sea creatures using a classification key and understanding the way these work. Our physical observations helped us decide what was a marine mammal, fish, shark, mollusc or crustacean. We have also investigated herbivores, omnivores and carnivores and what each of these animals consumes as part of it's diet. Check back for more updates in the coming weeks!
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What an amazing start to the second half of Summer term we have had! As always, Team CB have been incredibly busy with all that we have been working hard on in our learning. Here is just a brief summary of some of the magical moments during our first week back.
In Maths, we have started a new unit focussed on measurement. Over this week, we have been looking specifically at mass. We discussed what mass is, how we measure it and how we can compare it. We explored this practically using balance scales to see which objects were heavier/lighter. We then made comparisons using < and >. From this, we looked at different types of weighing scales, including digital and traditional weighing scales. The class looked at how we can identify the small intervals a scale moves up in and how to read measures accurately in g and kg. In our reading, we have continued our work on the Chocoplot, learning what happened to Jelly next and using our understanding of the text so far to make simple, plausible inferences. From this, we further refined and developed our justification for these views by using "because" to explain our thoughts. On Monday, as a class we spent time using drama techniques to retell the story of Boudicca's rebellion, which draws our history topic to a close. We used scripts to act out a scene following the King's death and Boudicca's decision to fight. We used imaginative acting to recreate the Battle of Colchester. The class were great at using the music to support their understanding of how it would have felt to be fighting for their freedom at that moment. On Tuesday, as a class, we visited The Deep alongside Team AC as a hook into our Science topic. I must say the class' behaviour was absolutely impeccable and they had so much fun over the day. The class were particularly excited to see a sawfish and catfish all in the same tank! They were enthusiastic from the get go, absorbing all the learning opportunities that came their way, including becoming a coral reef expert in the workshop they did! Later in the week, the class enjoyed building their Roman chariots. We used carboard to make the structure, which we designed, cut and secured in place, before paper-maching. Wheels and axles will be attached early next week before the class paint and decorate their fully functioning chariots and evaluate their work. As you can see, its always full steam ahead! Check back soon to see what else we have been up to! |
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