It has been a very busy first week back with lots of wonderful learning taking place!
In English, we have started looking at our unit on poetry where we have had to identify the shapes/features of the poem. In groups, children worked together to identify these, and then had to order the poem we were looking at. We then looked at shape poems and why poems do not need to all be the same but can be shown in various ways.
We began a new topic in History looking at the Anglo Saxons and the 7 Kingdoms. The children identified the 7 areas on a map, and we discussed where these people came from and the new kingdoms created.
In Religious Education, we have started our new unit of work where we have looked at Hinduism and discovered interesting facts about their beliefs.
In Geography, we started our unit on rivers where we discovered the different parts of rivers and what the names of these places are. The children then labelled their own maps and had to tell us why they would build a house or a village on the map and why.
In maths, we revisited some methods we've previously used to work out answers to questions, including the column method and number lines before we move onto our next unit. We used whiteboards to recap our previous learning, and shared and discussed these as a class.
In science, the children began a unit on Light. Children were asked to separate natural light objects and artificial light (man-made) objects. Children came up to the board and drew a line to match the side they felt these items belonged too. The task was then to draw a diagram showing light and then write how it could help humans, animals, and plants.
