Term 3 has been very productive in Dormouse Class! We began by looking at the four countries of the United Kingdom in our Geography lessons. We tasted food from the different countries, learned about different landmarks and even learned some Welsh! We have been also looked at what makes a city and how it is different from a town and a village. We have carried out fieldwork in our school grounds, looking at different human geographical features such as the school, fire station, houses and village hall.
In English we have enjoyed reading Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett. In this book, Sunny the Meerkat goes on his travels, sending a postcard home from each place he visits. We thought about how Sunny felt at different points during his travels, and sequenced the main events before and rewriting the story ourselves. We are planning to write back to Sunny at the end of term, after we have been on our school trip to Canterbury. As part of our topic Bright Lights, Big City, we will be comparing Canterbury with London, which we will investigate more next term.
We have applied our knowledge of positional direction to programming the Beebots in ICT, working with a partner to give them instructions and making them travel from different starting positions. We have programmed Beebot to travel across a map, making predictions about its finishing position after reading directions.
In Art our topic is Rain and Sunrays. We have used loose parts to make pictures of weather symbols and will move on to learning about collagraph printing, including how to make develop a motif to make single and repeated prints.
In PE we have enjoyed our Gymnastic lessons with our new Coach, Mrs Linda from Take Pride. We have also enjoyed dancing to songs from The Lion King in our dance lessons.
Our topic in PSHE is goals and dreams. We have been thinking about setting ourselves goals, and then working out the small steps we would need to take to achieve them. We have also thought about working with friends, and how we can work together to achieve our goals.
In RE this term our theme is Gospel. We have been learning that gospel means ‘good news’. We have been looking at some stories from the bible, and some of Jesus’ teachings and thinking about why they would be good news to Christians and how we can learn from them.