Hello everyone!
As we approach the end of the first term, things are getting busier. Alongside continuing with our learning, we are also practicing for our class Winter Show performance. Don’t forget, next Friday is the PTA Thrift Market—I look forward to seeing many of you there! Here are some highlights from the week.
This week, the students planned their own historical stories inspired by our class text, The Stone Age Boy. This activity allowed them to incorporate knowledge from our IPC unit, Scavengers and Settlers, into their writing. After completing their plans, the children began drafting their stories.
In maths, we continued exploring different times tables and strategies to solve them. The children also used base-10 equipment to work on multiplication and division problems. Additionally, they practiced and reviewed their learning using Sumdog, which they thoroughly enjoyed.
During Guided Reading, the children have been engaged with The Iron Man. They’ve used this time to focus on key reading skills such as predicting, clarifying, summarising, and questioning. The children have done well to use evidence from the text to justify their ideas and opinions.
In our IPC unit, the children used their findings from the artifact investigation to answer questions about Ötzi the Iceman and created drawings of what they think he may have looked like. We then explored significant developments during the Stone Age, such as the transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers. The children also examined the famous discovery of Skara Brae and discussed what we can learn from the evidence left behind.
That’s all for the week, have a great weekend everyone.