This week, we looked at the beliefs of the Ancient Greeks as part of our current topic about the Olympics. We researched the different Gods and Goddesses and then made them into Top Trump games by deciding their strengths and weaknesses.
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Our five tiny
Canute Caterpillars arrived this week ! The children are going to look after
them in the hope we can release them as butterflies at the end of this half
term. They are currently in a pot with their food and once they spin
their chrysalis they will be moved into a netted home…we will keep you updated
!
In English the children edited their story map and created their own characters following the plot of Little Red Riding Hood, we had some really interesting replacements for the wolf – a crocodile ! a bull ! to name a few, they all used some fantastic adjectives to describe their villians. Reception children have been enjoying writing about Superworm in Drawing Club.
In Maths, Reception children have been doing doubling and odd & even activities, year 1 have stormed their way through the multiplication and division unit and enjoyed being outside practically sharing and grouping everyday objects, year 2 have been weighing classroom items and estimating what measurement would be most appropriate, grams or kilograms?
We took full advantage of the sunny weather on Wednesday and did our mini beast hunt in forest school. We then used our mini beast data to digitally create some bar charts for ICT, showing the quantities of the five most popular creatures.
In RE we have been discussing the Five Pillars of Islam and comparing activities Muslims do that we also do, like celebrating key events with our families and giving money to charity.
In PSHE we discussed the qualities of being a good friend and relied on some of these qualities in PE when the children worked in pairs. One had to direct their blindfolded partner to move items around the playground, clear communication was key, they all succeeded and had a lot of fun!
We hope you
all have a lovely long weekend, hopefully with abit of sunshine!
Best wishes The Canute Class Team
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A jam packed week in Penhallow this week!
We started the week by learning all about how to group animals based on what they ate and whether this made them a herbivore, carnivore or a omnivore (like us).
In English, we are beginning to research our minibeast, ready to write a plan for our fact file.
Maths has been full of activity this week where the Reception children are learning what happens to numbers when we add more or take some away. Year 1s are flying through their multiplication and division topic where we are learning to count in 2s, 5s and 10s as well as understanding that it is easier to count in groups if they are equal. We also learned what makes up an array, recognising lots of new maths vocabulary like row and column.
Kai received his 33 badge this week in 99 club, well done! It is getting tougher to achieve these badges now but I know with plenty of practice we will get them in no time! There are plenty of chances to practice these maths skills on twinklGO! Ensure you are also keeping up with your KIRFs that were attached in last week's blog.
We have enjoyed two really important assemblies this week. The first was on Tuesday when we learned what it meant to be sun safe. Please send your child in with some labelled sun cream, a named sun hat and a drink every day now that we are finally seeing some brighter days! In Penhallow, we love to take our learning outside! It will also be very soon that we take our PE sessions in our wonderful school swimming pool! Remember that our PE days are Wednesday and Friday so please make sure your children have their PE kit in school for these days. Our second assembly was on beach safety with the R.N.L.I. Sam and Harry taught us all about what to do to stay safe on the beach this summer.
PSHE was so much fun this week where the children learned that it is ok to say no to physical touch as a greeting, there are lots of other ways to greet each other and we enjoyed making some new ways of greeting our friends.
Music was fantastic fun! We leaned all about the keyboard and what different sounds we could make with them.
Well done to our 'People of the Week' this week, all showing us how to be 'Excellent' in their learning! Sonny, Dexter, Evie D and Kai, well done to all of you!
Enjoy a wonderful, longer weekend! If you get the chance, pop onto TwinklGO! where you can play lots of games which will help you with your learning. We will see you on Tuesday morning for another week of fun!
Mrs Taylor, Mrs G, Miss Colton, Miss Cullingford and Miss Hodge.
We have started our learning about our new focus story book 'We're going on a bear hunt' and when we went to St Anne's we listened to the story together before creating some bear faces.
The bear faces had to have one wet, shiny nose, two big, furry ears, two big goggly eyes; we're not scared!!
Fortunately, the Grannies and Grandads at St Anne's weren't scared either!
We have finally completed our city life enquiry and have moved on to studying the Ancient Greeks. This gives the children a chance to become historians again to ask questions about the past, explain how we can find answers and use their natural curiosity to link previous history learning. The children have already discovered that the Ancient Greeks were advanced architects building palaces and temples compared with the Celts in Britain.
Writing
This week, we have used knowledge of the city to produce poetry. The children have enjoyed the freedom of playing with words yet following some strict rules to produce poems in the style of The Sound Collector by Roger McGough. Year 5 and Year 6 children have explored balanced arguments and produced their own considering whether city or village life is best. We will share the work with peers in Friday’s recital session.
Swimming
We have another 2 sessions left of this block, next week 8th May and the final session 22nd May. 15th May we have no swimming as this is SATs week.
Enjoy the long weekend.
Mrs W
Today we learnt all about invertebrates and how to classify them. We went on an exciting 'invertebrate hunt' around the school grounds where we observed characteristics and then drew precise labelled diagrams!
Our new enquiry question is 'Was the Great Fire of London really that great?'.
We have become historians understanding the key event which happened in London in 1666. The class have loved learning about this and in 2 weeks can already impart so much knowledge where they have even applied it within their writing in both English and the curriculum.
We are going to be linking this in our DT next where we are going to create Tudor houses before recreating the Great Fire ourselves with help from the local fire service.
We have a trip planned to the fire station this half term (date to be confirmed) where we will look at how fire safety has changed from 1666 to now.
Reminders:
PE is on Thursday so please ensure kit is in on this day.
Reading records are also to come in on Thursday ready to be changed over for the following week.
We have reached
the end of our latest topic, ‘What’s so special about clouds’. We have focussed
on a range of themes including erosion, human impact on the coast, how clouds
are formed, their influence on the weather and how to read maps. We finished this
week by completing some personal research into questions we still had on the
topic. We recorded our findings in our books and on a few clouds too!
We have reached
the end of our latest topic, ‘What’s so special about clouds’. We have focussed
on a range of themes including erosion, human impact on the coast, how clouds
are formed, their influence on the weather and how to read maps. We finished this
week by completing some personal research into questions we still had on the
topic. We recorded our findings in our books and on a few clouds too!
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