Week 3 of our Great fire topic

This week we have added details to our buildings that we started last week.

We practised our best me habit 'TEAM' - together everyone achieves more!

We also decided to bake some bread like the baker in the Great fire of London!

Yummy yummy, the bread was delicious!

Miss Rogan encouraged the children to think of words to describe the taste of the bread. We have been trying to improve our writing by thinking of interesting and exciting describing words, so hopefully the children will use these in their writing!

Morning Meeting

This week in morning meeting we have started a new share topic!

If you owned a shop, how would you stop people from stealing things?

These are some of the answers that the children gave.....

Charlie said lock windows and doors.
Taylor said make traps on the floor that tie you upside down, with circles made out of rope.
Curtis wants a machine at the door. If someone steals something an alarm would go off.
Leigh thought about putting a sign up saying 'do not steal'.

We also played a game called 'families'. The children pass folded pieces of paper between them until the teacher shouts 'find your families'.

The children open their paper and match their family name with others in the room.

We have also practised TEAM in our reading activities.

The children are working together to find single words to make sentences.

These children played a game to see who could create words when they picked out an upside down letter tile.

Science Challenge

Mrs Wood has put together 4 circuits and challenged the children to work out which are connected correctly and which are not.

Can you work out which circuits are connected correctly and which are not?

The children also had to record the reasons why each circuit was right or wrong.

The other challenge was that they had to do this all in silence!

Homework Menu 3/5/13

• Make up some problems with weight or length, for example, how much does 1 tomato weigh, how much does 4 tomatoes weigh? How long is the sofa, how long would 6 sofas be?
• Write an acrostic poem about the Great fire of London

                    F                         L
                    I                         o
                    R                        n
                    E                        d
                                              o
                                              n

• Make a model of St.Paul's cathedral which is in London.
• Make a map of London, showing the river Thames, Pudding lane, London bridge, the tower of London.

Have fun!

Homework Menu 26/4/13

•  Create a poster to remind people what to do in an emergency.
• Tea stain some paper and write a diary entry as if you are Samuel Pepys.
• Record some halves of shapes and number.
• Find out about how the fire service started after the Great fire of London.

Have fun!

Week 2 of our Great Fire topic

This week we had 2 main jobs to complete about our topic.

First we painted a scene from London during the fire.

Most of our paintings are not finished because we were being so careful with our drawings and detailed painting.

The second job was to write a diary entry as if we were the baker that started the fire in 1666.

Next week we will write another 2 diary entries to carry on the story of what happened.

Building Learning Power

Today for our best me Friday, we have been practising our painting skills using fine paintbrushes.

Whilst doing this, we have been practising many of our building learning power muscles.

These include:

Absorption
Managing distractions
Perseverance
Imagining
Interdependence
Collaboration
Imitation

These paintings are going to be used to help us learn our number sequences. We will be putting them up in the corridor so we can practise counting as we walk to and from places!