High Jump and Athletics day

This week we have been practising high jump for Athletics day. We have been practising our scissor kicks over the mat. 

We have our Athletics day on Tuesday. Remember to wear house colours! 

Kendall- Red

Hillary- Green

Devoy- Yellow

Blake- Blue 

Was that an Earthquake?

This week we read a story called, "Is that an Earthquake?" This is a story about a family who hear lots of noises and think there is an earthquake. The reason we read this story was because we need to know what to do in an earthquake at school. We wrote out some instructions titled: What to do in an Earthquake. We then made posters to describe to people what to do in an earthquake and then we had lots of earthquake drills. Can you remember what to do if there is an earthquake? Check out our posters and practising! 

Buddy Time

This week we were on "Environment" 

We take turns at Discovery School to garden, pick up rubbish, water the plants and clean up the school. We got to do this with TD Class- our big buddies! We had lots of fun and we did a great job! 

Writing and Reading

We have been doing some fantastic writing in MR. Our last story we wrote was about having a super power! Our title was... If I could have any super power it would be... because.... 

We then published our writing and displayed it on the wall! 

We read the big shared book called "Number One" We read this as a whole class, then some of us took it home to read. We also listened to the story on the I Pads. After we discussed the story and the punctuation in the story we did some amazing artwork. We were learning to use details and patterns. 

Check out some of our art..

Reading Celebrations

A BIG congratulations to these five children who have now reached their 25 nights reading! You guys are super stars! Miss Rowe is so proud of you! 

Discovery Time

This week our focus for Discovery Time was- Using Our Initiative. This is our School wide social skill at the moment. We talked about different ways that we can show our initiative and what this word means. We decided that it is all about solving problems and thinking about things carefully. 

At Discovery Time all the activities were based on problem solving. Here are some of the things we did: 
-Making something out of newspaper or toilet paper 
-Puzzles
-Building
-Classroom Scavenger hunt  
-Dominoes 
-Marble Run 
-Lemon/baking soda/dish washing liquid mix 

and many more! 

At the end of Discovery Time we shared what we made and did during Discovery Time and talked about how we solved some problems. 

Maths

This week we have been continuing to look at numbers. 

We have been identifying the difference between a 'ty' and 'teen' numbers. It's really important when we count that we pronounce the 'teen' and 'ty' numbers correctly. We sorted the numbers into 
'teen' and 'ty' groups and then played a game. In the game we had to read out numbers correctly. 

At the moment we are also learning to skip count. Check out this game.. It has lots of different activities about number sequences. Click on the medium level to play. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/number_sequences/play/