Mental Maths

This week we are looking at our mental maths skills! Sumdog has lots of games to practice our SMIRFS on, and so does this fun website...

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/mental-maths

Art!

In our art sessions we have been sketching and painting Sekura trees as well as making lotus flowers using origami. We are very proud of our work!

China Day!

We had a fantastic day on the last Friday of term! We celebrated Chinese New Year by making money wallets, shadow puppets and even tasting some Chinese food! Here we are making our money wallets...

Subtraction and music

This week we have been learning how to do column subtraction! We used dienes blocks to help us at first, and now we can do it independently! 

Here is a website to practice on http://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/48/column_subtraction

We have also been learning to improvise and read music. Play this music game - how many can you score?

http://www.vicfirth.com/education/keyboard/speednotereading.html

Science!!!

Next week we are having an exciting science week. We will be doing lots of  investigations involving rocks and soils. We have found some fun games to play on!


http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/materials/rocks_soils/play/

Community

Our new Christian value for this half term is Community. What can we do to make our community a friendly group to join? Which communities do you belong to?

Our cliffhanger story!

We have started making a story map for our new topic today. We had great fun putting the actions to it too. Here is a copy of our map...