Week ending 21/10

On Monday we enjoyed a mini volleyball session at Thomas Keble where we were taught by GCSE PE sports leaders. We all had a good time and hope to go back again in future.
We were joined by the Y4 for the afternoons this week. They helped us with a science investigation. We wanted to find out which was the warmest place in school using ice! On Monday we planned what we needed and how we were going to do it and on Wednesday we got busy! We were working in groups and each group chose where we tested so we ended up with the warmest places being the staffroom and Mrs David's office. We are going to repeat the investigation between these places another time.
It was great to have the older children to work with us as we had to plan what to do and how to do it ourselves.
On Tuesday we had a go at Zumba which was good fun and very energetic. That took most of our dance lesson so we only had time for a quick game of the action maker afterwards which of course we all enjoyed although we were quite tired by the end of it!
We made use of the year fours to do some French with us. We had conversations where we introduced ourselves and said how we were feeling. We are getting good at this now!
In literacy we were very busy this week. We wrote some brilliant non-fiction posters about dinosaurs, some of which are displayed in the classroom. The idea is that they will all be put into a book after we take the display down. We have really enjoyed finding out about dinosaurs.
Also this week we wrote our 'writing journey' stories which were inspired by dinosaurs. These stories  will be available to see at our book look on the 7th November.
Well done to Elliott for being this weeks worker of the week and to Molly R for being awarded our spelling trophy for October.

Week ending 7/10/11

Measuring fun!!!

We measured a huge rectangle in the playground. The length was 6m and the width was 3.5m.

No they were not making a hat they were measuring heads!

We measured lots of different books.

This week the children have been busy learning and rehearsing their harvest poems. Their homework is to learn more words as they will be taking part in a year group poem and then a group/paired or individual poem also.

In numeracy we have had lots of fun learning about measurement. There were lots of practical opportunities to practise measuring so we should all be experts now!

In literacy we were very excited to begin a new block of work on dinosaurs. We will be creating non-fiction posters which answer our own questions about dinosaurs. Thank you to those people who sent in books for us to use. We will be continuing with this project until after half term so would be glad to keep them for a little while.

In ICT we are busy typing up our modern versions of traditional stories. We will get some on the website soon. They are definitely worth a read!!

In French we have been working hard at learning greetings and have moved on to 'Ca va?' and responding to say how we are feeling.

We enoyed exploring ice in science this week. We looked at a number of different sized lumps of ice and watched what happened over the day. We will be carrying out investigations with ice soon.

Well done to Oliver Hunt for being pupil of the week last week and this week to Sydney.

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