No Way! Not drawing on the tables again!

In numeracy we are now looking at strategies we can use to help us with division calculations.

We have spent a lot of time looking at groups of and numbers of groups. It’s quite tricky to work out the difference between the two. We also learnt some new mathematical vocabulary like quotient, divisor and dividend.

Stay and read a Dragonologist report

Thank you to everyone who came in and stayed to read and listen to a Dragonologist report at the end of last half term. What a fantastic job your children did. I was so impressed with their determination to show you their very best work and to apply to their writing and presentation all of the tips and skills they had been learning about. Well done everybody.

Painting in the style of Angie Lewin

Angie Lewin is a print artist who uses simple geometric shapes inspired from plants and flowers to create her pieces. We looked at her work and at the water colour flowers we had drawn and then created our own pieces. We used mixed media, which included oil pastels, black pen and water colours. We looked at the colour wheel and chose either complementary or harmonious colours to complete our pictures. This time we were working on a much larger scale than our first piece. So, we have been practising our skills of working on a variety of scales, identifying where colours fall on the colour wheel, choosing the right brush for the task and finding out about and exploring the work of an artist. Take a look at some of our work.

Adding…..

This week in numeracy we have been revisiting addition. We can now rename in the ones and tens column, with some of able to rename in the hundreds and thousands column too! We have been solving lots of problems that use our addition skills. It made us think quite hard.

The Explorer

Our whole class guided reading text is “The Explorer,” by Katherine Rundell

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It’s a very exciting story. We have just left the children in the story trying to navigate their way down the river on a raft made by themselves, hoping not to come into contact with piranhas again. Will they get to Manus and finally make there way back home?

Silver stars are being given out for all who read aloud to the rest of the class with expression, fluency and use of punctuation. Well done everyone, you are amazing and reading a difficult text extremely well.

Water Colour Outdoor Painting

In Meadow 4 we have been sketching the plants we can find outside in our school grounds. We had to look extremely closely to make sure we were drawing what we were actually seeing and not what we thought we could see.

Our next step was to practise using water colour paint. We explored painting with wet on wet paper and then wet on dry paper, looking carefully at how the colours merged. We picked the right paint brushes for delicate and small paintings.

Dragons?

Today we had a surprise package delivered. When we opened it we found a dragon’s egg! With it, a set of instructions telling us how to keep it safe so that it could hatch. We were asked to guard and protect it with our lives as it’s mother had been killed by dragon hunters.

Who sent it? We don’t know. Why was it sent to us? We don’t know. Who are the dragon hunters? We don’t know…………

We went outside to see if we could find any evidence of dragon activity. We found scratches on the logs that could have come from claws. We found an upturned compost bin, large footprints in the forest school area, feathers and fluff and some netting that could have been used by the dragon hunters. Surprisingly we also found pieces of chess!

We are going to keep on looking for the dragon hunters and protecting our egg.

Welcome to Meadow 4

Welcome everyone to Meadow 4. We have a very exciting year planned and can’t wait to get started. I’m looking forward to spending time with you and getting to know you all.

This term numeracy begins with place value, looking at numbers up to 10,000. In literacy we are revising nouns and verbs an then we are developing our knowledge of expanded noun phrases and prepositions. In guided reading we have started reading a very exciting chapter book called “The Explorer,” by Katherine Rundell. It is an adventure books that begins with a plane crash in the Amazon jungle. Our history project for this term is the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. In science we will be investigating the digestive system and teeth.

In addition to all of that we will be walking to Thomas Hardye School to listen to a visiting author, have a music workshop from musicians from the Benedetti Foundation and hold a carol concert in the church for Christmas and not forgetting the X-Mas Factor. Who will get through to the finals and be the 2023 winner? Phew! How busy will we be!