This half term we celebrated Book Week, with a whole school focus on developing our vocabulary and how to use powerful words in our writing. All the children looked at different images of stars and thought of powerful words to describe them.  We also thought about how we could describe the images using our senses, by writing poetic sentences and by writing very simple similes.  We then put all our ideas into writing a special shape poem. 

In Geography, we have been learning about human and physical features and maps. We started off by walking around the playground, identifying human and physical features, before heading on a local area walk, which included Beverley Park and other local features. While on the walk we identified our location on a map and when we returned we drew our own maps showing the route that we had taken.

We also become materials experts over the last few weeks! We began with a classroom hunt to identify which objects used which materials, after that we  looked at the properties of the different materials. Working scientifically, we classified and grouped different materials and compared them to say how they were the same and different.  After all that hard work we decided to carry out an eggs-periment… Looking at a variety of materials, we predicted which material would best protect an egg when dropped from a height. I think a lot of us were quite surprised by the results.

In Maths, we started off by looking at one more and one less with numbers up to 50. We compared numbers using the correct vocabulary, greater than, less than, and equal to. Over the half term we also completed several problem solving activities, using different skills to help us find the answer. We also learnt how to measure length and height, using both standard and non standard units of measure.