Last week, Year 3 started their topic of measurement in maths. They learnt how to measure in mm, cm and m by measuring lines on the playground.
Back in the classroom, the children then matched their measurements to the real size of different animals, using the books ‘Actual Size’ and ‘Prehistoric Actual Size’ by Steve Jenkins.
This week, to link in with our English work on Shackleton’s adventure to Antarctica, we have spent some time in the outdoor classroom learning about basic first aid. We have role played various situations, including asthma attacks, bleeding and calling for an ambulance!
The key points we learnt were:
Before the Easter holidays, children in Year 4 spent a number of weeks writing their own legends based on Blue Frog: The Legend of Chocolate. They designed front covers for their stories and made them into mini books.
Today, the children in Year 4 shared their stories with their Year 1 buddies!
This afternoon in Year 4, we have been thinking about the similarities and differences that we have with one another. As part of our lesson, we created a ‘web of similarities’ to discover all the things that connect us together. These included the types of families we have, our favourite pets and our hobbies.
We enjoyed learning something new about our friends!
This half term we have been writing our own legends based on The Blue Frog: The Legend of Chocolate.
At the beginning of our unit of work, we started by identifying the features of legends and considering what we needed to be successful in our own writing.
We have started writing the opening paragraphs to our legends, both as a class and independently. Since then, we have been thinking carefully about the writing process and how we can be like authors, editing, improving and redrafting our work.
We look forward to sharing our finished legends with you!
Today in Les Hiboux, the children used homemade percussion instruments to perform a rap in our school garden.
Gather round with your family and enjoy the many treats that our collection of talented individuals have to offer…
Just because we can’t be at Whitwell, it doesn’t mean we can’t have hot chocolate! Watch as Miss Hunter makes “the best hot chocolate ever” and then have a go at making your own Whitwell hot chocolate.
Grab a drink and a snack, gather round and follow the link to join in with our reading cafe linked to Charlotte’s Web: ‘Wonderful Webs’.
Cafe activities: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1q2ZFWWcx7iwRZP5YYCDDe5BUXHwdZAlA
Chapter 13: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1al5HZmXbNNzaceOO2s8w7YN7V9yruvR3/view?usp=sharing
Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aXljeyJ5ZQ30Sd1aSqDIb1MnCrcL7hWp/view?usp=sharing
We hope that you enjoy yourselves and look forward to seeing pictures of what you come up with! Mr Emmens and Mrs BM