Walk the plank!

Our theme for English over the next few weeks is Peter Pan! On Tuesday we were writing a character description of a mean, vicious pirate! We came into our class to be greeted by Captain Groves and she had a plank in the classroom! 

She was a little bit mean and scary, we described her character and personality - she even recruited some of us to be in her pirate crew! 

We wrote some fantastic WANTED posters on our characters.

So if you see any of these revolting pirates...let us know! 

Fractions!

This week in maths we've been learning all about fractions. We can recognise halves and quarters and can write them as a fraction. We have even started to solve practical problems on fractions.

On Tuesday year 2 used Smarties to help them with their fraction work. We counted them, halved them, quartered them and then even worked out the fraction of the blue, red and brown Smarties!

Year 1 were working on pizza fractions. We worked out what fraction of the toppings on a pizza was pepperoni and mushroom!

Today, some of us are going to start finding equivalent fractions!

Tasting bread

Our Design and technology topic is making sandwiches. Today we tasted some different bread and discussed their appearance, texture, smell and taste. We tried wholemeal bread, write bread, French baguette and wraps. They were very tasty!!

Here are some pictures of us trying the different breads!

Sorting shapes

WALT: Sort shapes.

Today we recapped the vocabulary used to describe shape. We then used hoops to sort our shapes. We tried to sort in a variety of ways.

 

Being bossy!

Our new English topic is 'Instructions' and today we were being very bossy!

We were learning all about imperative verbs which are bossy verbs. For example: put, don't and give.

Today we played a class game of ‘Simon Says’ to show that we can listen and follow simple instructions.  We then discussed the term ‘Imperative verbs’ and decided they were words that sounded very bossy.  As a class, we created a thought shower of all the ‘bossy’ verbs we could think of. After that, we wrote our own sentences on whiteboards using an imperative word to start.

These were some of our sentences:

Go to bed now.

Put your books away.

Give me your money

Capacity!

In maths our current topic is measures and this week we are focusing on capacity.
Capacity is when we are measuring liquids such as water.
Today we explored different capacity containers. We discussed and estimated how many of one container would fit into another.

We learnt that big containers could be measured in litres and small containers could be measured in millilitres.  Did you know a teaspoon holds just 5mls?!

Here are some photos of our learning.

Drama Workshop

Yesterday, we were really lucky to have our second drama workshop with Sophia! We did lots of funny and exciting warm ups to get our bodies and voices ready for learning a poem.

We learnt a poem all about someone wanting to be a dinosaur! We learnt actions to help us remember the lines!

We had such a fantastic time, thank you for organising it Mrs. Lilley!