We’ve had fun this week studying the work of the illustrator Quentin Blake. Our challenge has been to draw ourselves in his style. We’ve worked hard to improve our drafts, critiquing our work with our friends.
In maths and P.E we had fun racing and learning about ordinal numbers.
We had a visit from the school nurse who reminded us how to keep ourselves safe.
In our history case study we have been using different ways to research our ‘Champion from History’ Rosa Parks.
We guessed the weight of the giant pumpkin in crew.
To finish a lovely week we had a visit from Class 1 who chose Class 3 to receive their ‘random act of kindness. They had been making crispy buns to celebrate being kind. We enjoyed them whilst watching a spooky cartoon as our reward for working hard this term.
We’ve been busy in maths comparing numbers and practically problem solving.
In English we’ve been practising our phonics skills, playing games and word building and we have sequenced events from our core text ‘Let the Children March.’
Exploring our text ‘Supertato’ in literacy this week, imagining what the characters might be saying, engineering supermarkets with lego and following instructions to create our very own Supertatoes.
Supporting our buddies in reading crew.
Representing numbers in different ways and playing games to practise counting on.
Putting great effort into our P.E lessons this week practising ball control and working together during our team games.
Class 3 have been amazing this week, I can’t wait to see what they will achieve next week!
In maths this week we began by investigating and sorting objects by different criteria. We then got active moving and counting with Spiderman before settling down to work hard; matching, ordering and writing missing numbers.
We are continuing to work hard to develop our ball control in P.E.
In phonics we have been word building and found that team work was they key to success!
We have all been so excited to show off our superhero costumes today and have enjoyed explaining in our crews what makes our chosen superheroes special.
We’ve been busy designing and making our superhero shields and completing our paintings to add the finishing touches to our classroom environment.
We’ve had a wonderful start to our new year with lots of smiles this week. We have met our new crews, had lots of fun developing our team work skills through competitions and games and have practised our listening skills in music.
We have been exploring fruit using our senses. We enjoyed tasting some fruits we haven’t even seen before and have produced some beautiful observational pencil and pastel drawings to fill Handa’s basket.