Straight back to it in our class with a Geography topic of Poles Apart, we have started our Geography lessons learning the names of the seven continents and 5 oceans around the world. We learnt that the equator is an invisible line that runs round the centre of the Earth and continents and countries nearest to these are the warmest places to be - unlike Europe this week with the snow, rain and sleet!

We have begun our research on the North and South Poles, including what animals live there, what plants grow, who visits and what you'd need to wear! Next week we move on to the Kalahari Desert in Africa, before we present our findings to each other for an oracy based outcome.

In maths this week we have begun looking at money - coins, notes, adding and making amounts - 

Why don't you have a play at home this rainy weekend and play shops!

In English, we looked at leaflets, their features and purposes of these. Over our writing cycle we will be planning and writing our own leaflets on African animals, and in our grammar lessons this week we have recapped expanded noun phrases, learnt spelling rules linked to singular and plural nouns and used simple subordinating conjunctions to build complex sentences:

Today we researched animals:

 

In Science, we have started our topic on Materials. Today, we looked around the classroom and found different materials - glass, wood, plastic, metal and fabric for example!

Our focus this half term in PSHE is Dreams and Goals - I set the children a realistic goal to pass the tambourine around without it making a noise.... we did it!