Living & Learning: being me
Living and learning this week was about influences and peer pressure…
…both positive and negative.
We discussed what peer pressure means to us and what might happen as a result.
Feeling confident means we feel like we can stand up for ourselves and say no if we need to.
We paid ourselves some compliments to remind ourselves how awesome we are.
Reminder: learning journey drop in
Learning Journey drop in 2 – 28.03.25 and 01.04.25 Times – 8.45 am-9.15am and 3.15pm-3.45pm
Wow reading records!
The children really impressed me with their reading records this week! The activity was comic strip which asks them to draw a comic of what they have read (which could be their current book club books)! These records are to help me keep track of the children’s reading progress so it’s always fantastic to see the children’s evidence of this each Friday.
A reminder of the reading record key info:
- I choose an activity for the whole class to complete on their book each Friday. More information on these activities are inside the record. If you are ever unsure which activity it is, please ask or choose a random one!
- The children need to bring it in every Friday for our Book Club lesson where we discuss their books and develop their love of reading.
- The children’s grown-ups also need to write a short comment sharing with us the lovely reading their child has been doing at home!
It gives the children ownership and responsibility of their reading.
Any questions, please ask!
Reminder: learning journey drop in
This is an opportunity to “drop into” school and share your child’s learning journal with them. This will involve looking through your child’s learning journey book.
Learning Journey drop in 2 – 28.03.25 and 01.04.25
Times – 8.45 am-9.15am and 3.15pm-3.45pm
DT Food: Overnight oats
This week Year 1 got into the kitchen and made some overnight oats. We used lots of kitchen skills, such as claw grip, snipping, mixing, measuring, arranging and the bridge hold. We really enjoyed making the recipe, although some of us were a little unsure when we tasted the final product!
We have discussed this week how we kept safe when cooking and what we would do next time if we made the recipe again.
Help at home by trying out the recipe for yourselves. What changes would you make? I will send the recipe home next week.
Guided Reading Week 4
Here are the target pages for this week’s guided reading. These need to be read by Friday 28th March.
Extra Time: up to chapter 38/page 177.
Flood and Fang: up to chapter 15/page 183.
Rooftoppers: up to chapter 17/page 150.
The Girl of Ink and Stars: up to chapter 21/page 186.
Kensuke’s Kingdom: up to chapter 8/page 117.
Spring 2: Week 4
This week’s book has been Jack and the Beanstalk. It has inspired us to plant our own seeds and observe them over time.
The children enjoyed doing this and writing some instructions for others to do the same.
We are still being inspired by the books we have read over the last few weeks-The hundred Decker Bus and The Hundred Decker Rocket.
The children enjoyed visiting our book fair and were discussing what their favourite books were.
This week we have started looking at the number 7 and the different parts it can be split into.
Help at home: by practising partitioning 7. You can do this using pasta, teddies or anything else that you can find at home that you have 7 of.
Thank you to all of those that came to the stay and learn this week.
Reading in the sun!
Today, we decided to take our reading outside to enjoy the sun! This was a great opportunity for the children to read a book they were enjoying and catch up on their guided reading pages.
Help at home: Make sure your child is reading everyday and is up to date with the guided reading book target pages.
Science: We are biologists!
In Science, we are currently biologists! Biologists study living things. In this unit, we are looking at life cycles. Life cycles are the series of changes in the life of an organism.
Take a look at our key vocabulary:
In our lesson, our enquiry type was ‘research using secondary sources’. The children used the iPads to find out about the life cycles of mammals and amphibians. Year 5 stayed safe online by looking for a padlock; checking the URL and the source is reliable; and typing ‘for kids’ at the end of their searches.
Did you know butterflies and frogs go through metamorphosis? This means that their young form looks nothing like their adult form.
We then discussed the similarities and differences between these life cycles. Can you spot any?
Help at home: Research the life cycles of birds, fish and reptiles.
Analysing Rugby
This half term, we’ve LOVED playing rugby. It’s been great for lots of us to try a completely new sport and get loads better at it over the half term!
We’ve been practising throwing, catching and kicking.
This lesson, we did some video analysis.
A member of our group filmed our technique for throwing, catching or kicking…
…before feeding back to the players.
It was really useful and definitely helped us improve.
Help at home by discussing some of our PE vocabulary: to evade, space and stamina.