3,4 A Class News
In Writing this week, we’ve continued looking at features of a promotion such as alliteration, questions and commands. We’ve started to plan our own around the artwork we’ve been creating in Topic and will be writing these next week.
In Science, we’ve continued our learning about sound and today enjoyed a talk from a sound technician who works in theatres. The children listened really well and had lots of good questions for him.
We’ve also been looking at some more different styles of architecture and in particular, focusing on the architect Zaha Hadid who designed one of the stadiums in the current Men’s World Cup. Many of us are very excited about the football! Well done 3,4 A on all your super learning this week.
Talk to a scientist
Today, we engaged in a wonderful Zoom talk with ecologist Tim Body.
The children were really fascinated about bats so we researched their sounds and species here. Why not listen and read with your child?
Later in the afternoon, we also had a chance to join with STEM science to learn about Symmetry in Snowflakes. Watch this space to see our learning …
3,4B: Book Club
Every week, we enjoy our ‘Book Club’ session. This is an opportunity for us to share what we’ve been reading at home, celebrate this and explore different books / authors.
This half-term, we’re reading books as part of a group. This means we can all discuss the same book. We enjoy this and get a lot from having a shared experience of reading.
In our ‘Book Club’ session, we discuss what we’ve been reading…
And celebrate the great work we’ve done in our reading journals…
Help at home by…
- asking your child about what they’re reading
- reading every day with your child
- being a reading role model yourself
- encouraging your child to engage with their reading record
We know it’s busy at home. But, equally, we know how important reading at home is!
Living and Learning: Mental health
Mental Health
We’ve started a three week block of living and learning lessons around mental health this week. Being able to identify and talk about feelings and emotions is an important part of mental health. In our living and learning lessons, we have shared our feelings and emotions and talked about how emotions can change and that they don’t stay the same forever. We can look after our mental health by doing this regularly.
3,4B: writing
We’ve been enjoying our writing in 3,4B recently. During our history topic, we wrote some recounts. We imagined we were an Ancient Greek warrior returning to our homeland (Athens) after a long battle.
Check out these examples…
Throughout all our writing, we’ve been learning lots of grammar. In particular, we’ve been focussing on securing our knowledge of word classes.
We’ve learnt about lots of word classes:
nouns – a person, place or thing
proper nouns – the specific name of a person, place or thing
verbs – a doing or being word
adjectives – a word that describes a noun
It’s important to remember that the word class of a word can change. A word isn’t just a noun all of the time. It depends what it’s job is in that particular sentence.
In this sentence, walked (from the verb ‘to walk’) is a verb because it’s the action that’s been done by the dog.
The dog walked to the park.
In this sentence, walk is a noun because it’s the thing that’s being done. The verb would be ‘went’ coming from the verb ‘to be’.
The dog went for a walk.
Help at home by…
- asking your child about their writing learning
- asking them to spot nouns around the house
- practising their spellings
- reading with, and to, them (ideally, every day)
3,4 A Class News
Week 3 of this term has come and gone in a flash!
In Writing, we’ve been looking at expanded noun phrases and using them to write interesting character descriptions.
In Reading, we’ve been focusing on the skill of retrieval across three different winter poems.
In Maths, we’ve been working on column subtraction and continuing to practise our times tables.
In P.E (pictured), we have been creating sequences of different static shapes in groups and then incorporating a variety of movements between each shape.
Beyond our usual lessons, we also enjoyed our themed anti-bullying day and preparing for our upcoming class assembly!
School Charity
The classes have been busily discussing who we would like our school charity to be this year. All the ideas were brought to the Junior Leadership Team meeting and we discussed which one we would like to support. It was a unanimous decision in support of Cancer Research UK. The JLT will be busy thinking of fundraising ideas for the year and we hope you will support us in this.
If you’d like some more information about the charity, please visit their website.
3,4 C Living and Learning Anti-Bullying Day 14.11.22
Today, we have been wearing odd socks for Anti-Bullying Day.
Through group and class discussion and activities, we have talked about:
- what bullying is
- our Child Friendly Anti-Bullying Policy
- the different kinds of bullying including cyber bullying
- how someone being bullied may think, feel and act
- the negative impact bullying has on mental wellbeing
- how to get help including who we can talk to about bullying
- the acronym STOP
STOP
Several Times On Purpose and Start Telling Other People
This year’s theme is REACH OUT. How will you Reach Out today?
PE with a difference
On Thursday, the whole of 3,4 had the chance to participate in some excellent football training by local coaches affiliated with Leeds United Football Club. Our plan is to use these skills in our PE sessions in the coming weeks too. As ever, the behaviour and attitude of our children was positively commented upon by the coaches. Well done 3,4! The coaches advertised some sessions that children from 5yrs and upwards may attend. Please see photo.
Here are a few photos of 3,4 B enjoying some of the last warm sunshine during a skipping challenge. We aim to improve the amount of skips we can do in one minute. Skipping is such a great way to improve our fitness and make our ‘legs feel like jelly!’-Zara
3,4 B Please see our photos from Science learning this week. (Follow on from previous post).
Science: Sound
Our Science topic for this half term is Sound (physics). Last week, we went on a sound survey and assessed the noisiest place in school. It was the playground because this is near the road.
This week, we’ve been learning all about how sounds are made.
Here’s a summary …
When any object vibrates, it causes movement in the air particles. These particles bump into the particles close to them, which makes them vibrate too, causing them to bump into more air particles. This movement, called sound waves, keeps going until they run out of energy.
Using instruments, drums and beaters, rice and lentils against plastic, we explored the sounds we could make. We also tried aking sounds with our bodies. It’s such fun exploring music and sound!
Finally, we discussed making sounds louder and quieter depending on how hard or soft you hit them.
