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In Art we have been working with clay and designing and creating our own Viking amulets. We will be wearing these for our mini production Viking play.
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In English we have been writing our own retelling of the short animation of Broken - the story of Rock, Paper and Scissors. We have been using our Vocabulary Ninja and DADWAVERS! skills to help us retell the story in our own words. After planning, drafting and editing our work we then completed our final draft and completed our picture books. We are so please with the finished results! Here are a few examples:
Great use of these Learning Gems:This week was the end of our topic on light and I asked the children to present what they had learnt in an expert video. It was great to see how the children chose to present their learning, using models and pictures to help them. There was a lot of nerves during their presentations but most were really pleased with themselves after they had done it! We hope you enjoy watching the examples below: In STEM this week, we continued with the theme of light and experimented with how light rays travel through water and glass. The children made videos of their own experiments.
Great use of these learning gems:As part of our maths lesson today, I set the children an 'I see reasoning' challenge of finding how many ways they could make fractions which had a decimal equivalent of between 0.5 and 0.75. The children had worked on using division to find the decimal equivalents of fractions during lockdown earlier in the year and it was great to see them working confidently to use the short division method to find the decimal equivalents. Great use of these learning gems:Like last week's STEM, this week the children used pictures created by Vincent Bal to make their own shadow pictures. They were all inspired by the range of equipment they had to create some imaginative pictures! Great use of this learning gem:In English we have been writing our own retelling of the short animation of Broken - the story of Rock, Paper and Scissors. We looked at how the story was broken into scenes and when creating our first draft we tried to include different elements of DADWAVERS! for the scenes, making sure our sentences started in different ways. EditingOnce we had written a first draft we worked hard to edit our work using the 3 different Editing Stations. We spend time at each Editing Station to help us focus our editing, but Mrs Matthews gave us each one Editing Station that we individually need to especially focus on. PublishingNow we have finished editing the first draft we are working on creating our finished picture books. Watch this space for the finished books! Good use of these Learning Gems:
Clay work sculptures
Our Finished SEMI-ABSTRACT SCULPTURESWe painted our completed clay sculptures on strong old colours favoured by Henry Moore. Good use of these Learning Gems:Each week, whilst half the class are learning guitars with Mr Butcher, the other half are completing STEM activities. This week, as we have been looking at light and shadows in science, the children were tasked with creating their own art work using shadows. First we looked at some work created by Vincent Bal, (a shadowologist) before creating our own. There was lots of creative thought going on throughout the lesson, working out what the shadows of the objects reminded them of. I'm really looking forward to seeing what next week's group comes up with too! Great use of these learning gems:We started a new topic in French at the beginning of this half term. So far we have learnt about the names of rooms in a house and ways they can be described using colours and sizes. Below, you can listen to some of us practising speaking these words and phrases in French. This week, one of the task was to practise writing sentences in French, we used an activity called Writing by Numbers to do this. The children were given some numbers, each of which matched to a different word. They simply had to work out which words they needed to complete the sentences. The children were very quick to identify what they needed and also good at spelling the words correctly as they wrote them down!
We have started a new story writing unit based on images and short films. We have been learning about DADWAVERS! to help us improve our descriptive writing. DADWAVERS! is an acronym which helps us to improve the quality of our narrative writing by starting our sentences in different ways.
PlanningWe will be using this technique to help us write about other images and short films. Watch this space for more high quality writing. Good use of these LEARNING Gems: |
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