Save the Rainforest!

During thelast week of our topic we have been learning about the destruction of the world's rainforests. We have thought about why they are in danger, why it is so important to save them, and some ideas of how to save them!

As we are now expert film-makers, we decided to make some "Save the Rainforest" news stories/adverts.

Here they are for you to watch at home...

Jungle Day Films

We all had a fabulous time at our "Jungle Day" last Friday, and all looked fabulous in our jungle explorers gear!

During the day we worked in groups to plan, film and edit our own films. We used our school nature area as our filming location-it made a great rainforest for the day!

We also made our own cheesy snakes, and looked at some tropical fruits, which we made into fruit kebabs.  Emre had also baked some delicious monkey cakes for the whole class! It worked out well because after filming in the sunshine we were ready for a delicious jungle picnic!

Here are our jungle films, and a slides how of "behind the scenes" photos from our day!



 

Our Rainforest Poems

In literacy this week we have been busy reading, planning and creating acrostic poems.

For our own poems we used either the word "Jungle", or "Rainforest." First we thought of as many words and phrases as we could to describe the rainforest-using everything we have learnt so far. Then we used these ideas to form lines for our poems. Once we were happy with our first drafts we wrote them again on special Jungle paper! Finally we recorded ourselves reading our poems, so that people can enjoy them at home!

Let us know what you think of our Rainforest/Jungle Poems...

Our Rainforest Picture Books

Last week in literacy we were inspired by the book "Where the Forest meets the Sea" by Jeannie Baker. It is all about a boys real, and imaginary journey through the Australian rainforest.

We really enjoyed the book, and found it very though provoking, especially the ending where the boy wonders what will happen to the rainforest in the future.

We decided to focus on using all our senses to imagine and describe our own journey through the rainforest.

As we were so impressed by the illustrations in the original book, we decided to use the ipads to create our own picture books, with words and illustrations. They took a while to complete, but they were definitely worth it!

Click on the names below to read that child's book. We are very proud of our work, so please let us know what you think!

Ella                    Luke                   Callum               Hannah               

Vincent             Malacie               Millie M             Michael              

Jack                  Leah                    Louis                  Millie F 

Evie                   Lucie                  Ryan                   Emre 

Eve                    Sam                    Aimee                 Olivia                   

Owen          

 

Geometry Hunters!

Today in maths we decided to use the school grounds to practise our geometry skills. We looked carefully at our school building, field and playground, in order to find examples of:

• Symmetry
• 2D and 3D shapes
• Right Angles

Once we found an interesting view we took a photo using the ipads, and recorded our explanations of the geometry features.

When we got back to the classroom we watched our recordings, and discussed what we had done well, and what we need to practise more! Each group chose one recording to share on the blog. Here is the link to our favourite recordings!

Our Geometry Hunt

Athletics

For the last few weeks of the year we are lucky to have an athletics coach coming in to work with us on Thursdays. We had our first session last week, and had a great time!

Measuring Scavenger Hunt

In maths this year we have done lots of different types of measurements, including:

• Length
• Direction
• Mass
• Angle
• Capacity
• Perimeter

While the weather wasn't too bad, we decided to practice our measuring. We went outside for a measuring scavenger hunt. We had to find things that were a specific length, height, perimeter, mass, number of right angles or even faced a specific compass direction.

Here we are during the challenge!

Willow Weaving

In art this term we have been doing lots of different weaving.

On Monday we were lucky to have an expert weaver come in to work with us. With his help we created some fabulous fish, just by weaving willow branches!

Zumba!

This week at school we are having a "Culture Week." Each class will be learning about a different country. Ours is India!

To start off the week we were lucky to have a Zumba session with Mrs Jenkin. We found out that Zumba was created in Columbia, but uses dance elements from many different countries, including India!

We all really enjoyed ourselves, and had some fabulous moves, as you can see in the video...

  

Thanks again to Mrs Jenkin for a great experience!

New Topic

This term we will be...

Adventurers!

 We will be going on a journey through jungles and across deserts!

We will be learning...

• Literacy-Stories from Other Cultures, Poetry &  Information Texts
• Geography-Rainforests & Africa
• Science-Plants and Habitats
• ICT- Jungle Photostories
• Music- Jungle Raps
• Creative- Weaving
• RE - Wonderful World
• PE- Games & Dance
• PSHE - Changes

Let me know what you think about our new topic. What questions would you like to find the answers to?