We have explored new poetry, classified animals, sang lots of songs and learnt some new rhymes!

In Learning Means the World this week we have finished our topic ‘Children’s Champion’. We have explored the work of Thomas Barnardo this term including everything he did for children in the past and everything the charity does for children in the present. We reflected that we felt very luckily to have clean clothes, food and water as some children don’t have these very important things.

In English we have been exploring the poetry book ‘Zim Zam Zoom’ by James Carter. We have been looking at a kenning poem 'Beware', which is about a bear. We have written our own class kenning poems about a dog which included lots of brilliant hyphenated nouns like… fast-runner, rabbit-hunter, mud-roller, bone-eater and fur-scratcher!

In Maths, we have been looking at how to describe volume and measure capacity. We had a mathematical investigation to find out the capacity of different containers using cups of water as our measurement. Isaac made a fantastic prediction and Thomas K spotted that some of the containers needed half cups!

We have been classifying animals in Science this week. We learnt the Vertebrate song which has really helped us to remember the five different classes -  mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians and fish! We pretended to be different animals and classified ourselves. Arlo chose to be a snail, we found it really hard to classify him until we learnt that snails are not vertebrates because they don’t have a backbone!