Week 2
It was our first full week back in St. Patrick's class and we have been very busy!
We continued with our unit of dance which we have been enjoying lots. We played lots of movement games around our topic 'Use the Force!'. We had a great time, grew in our confidence and took some great pictures too.
In maths we have just started looking at column addition. This has been very popular, and the children have been very resilient learning new methods. We have been showing off our high expectations by making sure our work is presented really neatly. We even had time to look at equivalent fractions too.
In English we have been continuing our work on traditional tales, and started looking at subordinate and main clauses. We found it really interesting, we didn't know that these parts of sentences had special names. We are determined to be aspirational and use them in our writing all the time.
We had our first lesson of Science this week, looking at how objects move differently on different surfaces. We used a toy car to help our experiment. The car moved best on the hall floor, but did not move as well on the grass.
We have also been working very hard to grow in confidence trying to perfect our pencil grip. Pinch it, flip it, grip it!
Week 1
What an amazing start to the term we have had in St. Patrick's Class. The children have returned well rested and ready to go - albeit in a very short first week back.
We have loved starting our unit of dance this week. We are going to be far more confident in all our skills as the weeks go by. Our REACH activity this term focuses on basic computer skills. This week we learned how to log on and begin typing in a document. This was fascinating, and we became very resilient.
In RE we began our new unit: Galilee to Jerusalem. We grew in our faith by focusing on the story of the journey of the Maji to Jesus. We thought it was really interesting how they studied the stars.
We also continued our work on fractions, learning that in unit fractions, the smaller the denominator, the larger the fraction. This was confusing at first, but we were very resilient!
Looking forward to many more great weeks to come - and some warmer weather too!