Sticky learning!
PE
For our PE lesson on Thursdays, we are enjoying dancing to ‘The Carnival of the Animals‘ by Camille Saint-Saëns. It is a musical suite of fourteen movements where each movement represents an animal. We are learning to dance in response to the music. We know to do heavy-footed movements for the elephant music and not move like dainty butterflies!
This week, we focused on movement. We were thinking about how the different animals move and how we can show this with our bodies. We had fun playing games where we had to guess the animal and did some great dancing! Here are some pictures showing some freeze-frames and our animal movement guessing game!
The day the animals came…
29 January 2016
The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 03 February.
Learn your lines for our class assembly.
Remember to practise speaking slowly, clearly and loudly.
29 January 2016
The homework this week is talk time and is due in on Wednesday 03 February.
What does it mean to be alive?
This statement could be explored in a scientific or spiritual way… or both.
29 January 2016
Here are the spellings for this week:
29 January 2016
The week’s spellings are all singular and plural possessives. We’ve been looking at the role of apostrophes in the contracted form (can’t…don’t…won’t) and have started to look at how they are used to mark possession (the cat’s pyjamas are the pyjamas that belong to the cat).
For this spelling list we’re focussing on using ‘s for singular nouns (one cat’s pyjamas) and s’ for plural nouns (two cats’ pyjamas).
one girl’s (…house – the house lived in by one girl)
two girls’ (…house – the house lived in by the two girls)
one boy’s
two boys’
one owl’s
two owls’
one ferret’s
two ferrets’
one lady’s
two ladies’
29 January 2016
This week’s Practice Makes Perfect homework focuses on fractions work and is due on Wednesday 03 February.
To be able to work with fractions.
There is a booklet inside homework books this week that requires the children to practise the many skills required to confidently work with fractions. All of these skills have been used in our Maths lessons this week and will be used again next week. There is an explanation or example for each skill to help the children to work independently.
29 January 2016
This week’s Creative homework is due on Wednesday 03 February.
To be able to show what I know about life in the ocean.
Our Life topic will focus on life in the oceans next week as this is where all life began. Think about what you know already about the world’s ocean and the life it holds today, or has held in the past, and present this creatively.
Here are a few ideas to get you started:
- Information poster
- Draw and label diagrams
- Present the different types of animals you find in the ocean
- Create a quiz
- Create a ‘lift the flaps’ info page
Silk painting
We’ve all tried something new this week. Our art project, linked to our Life topic, has been to create a new hybrid animal and then paint it onto silk. None of us had ever tried silk painting before and we all enjoyed doing something new.
Once we’d designed our new animal, we drew it on silk before going over our design in ‘gutta’. This is an outline which hold the paint inside the lines of your drawing. We practised on paper before using the gutta on silk.
Once our outline was complete, we painted the silk and loved watching how the colours would merge and bleed into each other to create a lovely effect.
What do you think of our final paintings?