Mrs McInroy and the School Council launched Anti Bullying Week at assembly as the children explained this year's theme 'One Kind Word - or phrase'.
All children will be engaged in doing lots of kind acts next week and hopefully beyond. Children have been asked to wear odd socks to school on Monday to celebrate their individuality. The children made an observational drawings of St Pauls Cathedral dome. We looked really closely at the detail on the dome. Using pencil, we applied pressure to add shading and thick and thin lines for detail.
This week the children had a very special safety session all about carbon monoxide (CO), understanding what it is and how we can keep ourselves safe. Safety Seymour (a superhero bear) and his safety assistant virtually visited our class, on a mission to rid the world of CO poisoning but he still needs our help!! During Science this week we thought about what already knew about materials. We distinguished between an object and the material from which it is made We identified and named a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock The children were given a tray containing a mix of objects and samples of materials and allowed time to explore and discuss them. Then they wrote down anything they knew about materials and how they might describe them. In small groups the children were then given two hoops and asked to think of different ways they could sort the objects/materials and explain how they had sorted them. In English we have been studying the poem ‘The Candle Flame’ by Pie Corbett. He uses similes to describe how the flame moves. We wrote our own simile poem about the Great Fire of London, thinking about how the fire moves. During our trip to St Pauls we
During religion this week we looked at the celebration of Diwali. We read the Rama and Sita story and discussed the festival of Diwali. We learnt that Diwali is a festival of lights and Hindus celebrate it with joy. During this festival, people light up their houses and shops with Diyas (small cup-shaped oil lamp made of baked clay). They worship the Lord Ganesha for welfare and prosperity and Goddess Lakshmi for wealth and wisdom. We made our own Diya lamps out of clay and decorated them. To introduce our topic ‘The Great Fire of London’ we started by drawing on our existing knowledge of London. We discussed the questions:
We made a list of all the things we know about London and the places that we had visited. We then thought about any other famous landmarks in London we know and discussed:
During history we looked at the events of the Great Fire of London. We looked at how and where it started and what happened during the days that followed. We used books to help us sequence the events. In small groups the children recapped all they had learnt about the local area. After we investigated our local area through short walks, we also looked at aerial photographs, used Digimaps, talked about what we could see on much larger scale maps and discussed the human and physical features of the area. They we used classroom objects to represent places or features of our locality and created a map of the local area. |
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