We have been writing a persuasive text about deforestation. Before we started writing, we held a debate where we argued for and against deforestation in the Amazon rainforest....
In Reading this week we have been writing our own stories and then creating our own ‘test its’ to see how well our partner had read what we’d written. We wrote 5 different questions to see what our friends knew about our creative stories. We...
In our History lessons this term we have been learning about Ancient Egypt. Our enquiry question this week was ‘How did Ancient Egyptian civilisation end?’ We made breaking news reports explaining the decline of Queen Cleopatra and recorded them on our iPads....
This week, we will begin writing a newspaper report based on a tale from the ‘Tales of China book. In preparation, we worked in groups to create our own news reports....
We have made a large spider web in our outdoor area for our minibeasts topic! We know that spiders make silk and some use this to spin their webs to catch food. We have also been using our web to practice positional language....
We have had lots of fun exploring the plants and insects we have around us in our environment. We have found some snails, spiders, butterflies and ladybirds and have created signs and habitats to keep them safe. We have learnt about things they need to survive,...
We have been playing board games to strengthen our understanding of 'counting on' and following rules when participating in activities. The children really enjoyed turn taking and they noticed the importance of also being happy for the winner of the game too....
As part of our English unit we have been learning about adverbs of manner. Here we are playing a game of charades where our partners job was to guess the verb and the adverb of manner....
We have had so much fun enjoying our outdoor theatre! We have created lots of different shows, including retelling stories, creating our own and even hosting a dance party! We used our mark making skills to create signs and song request sheets, and took turns to be...
We've been looking at the signs of Spring. In RE we've been exploring life cycles and had a go at completing the frog and butterfly life cycles. We know they start as eggs!...