What a wonderful first week back the children have had. We launched our new topic - Beast Creator - by conducting a mini beast hunt on the common. The children found numerous species of creepy-crawlies, including spiders, woodlice and centipedes. When we returned to school, we created a key of where these were located and analysed our findings. On Thursday afternoon, we were visited by some mini-monsters. Ed shared his knowledge of them, expertly answered our questions and enabled us to get close to these magnificent creatures. In our other Topic work, we looked at the different groups of mini beasts and used their characteristics to make a flowchart to help us classify some of the creatures we found on the common. In Maths, we have begun to explore angles. We have learnt about the different types of angles and have mastered using a protractor to measure them. In English, we have looked at a range of stories which explain how animals got their signature ...
We have been channeling our creativity in Polar Bears this week. We used Paint on the laptops to design exaggerated cartoon mini beasts, some of which were quite comical and book-worthy illustrations! The children had continued to enjoy exploring the 'Just So' stories and had great fun performing poetry where the class had to explore a rather disgruntled camel... They have planned their own stories for how mini beasts obtained their distinguishing features which they will write next week. We have been super proud of the class in Maths this week. We have experimented with new types of activities, including Silent Teacher and Reflect, Expect, Check. The children have listened carefully and secured their methods for calculating missing angles before attempting some tricky quiz questions and reasoning. Keep it up Polar Bears!
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