Summer Term

Today in Art, we used the work of Marcus Coates to inspire us to create nests. First, we gathered natural resources and then thought about how we could make them look like a nest. Some of us started to think about how we could combine our materials without using traditional resources like glue or tape and some of us decided to keep our nests 'messy'. 

Today we listened to the song 'Count on Me' by Bruno Mars. Lots of us already knew it, which made us very excited to be learning to sing it and compose our own recorder accompaniment. We have recorded our first draft of the song and can't wait to notice how much we improve each week!

We challenged ourself today in maths and completed a range of open learning activities to revisit learning in maths and make sure it feels sticky. This week, the main focus of our stations was number. We completed challenges all about place value, halving, adding up to 3-digits, multiplication and number facts. We also started to think about our learning for the week ahead and had our first go at measuring different lengths of string by using a ruler accurately. 

In Art today, we have been exploring the work of Marcus Coates. We learnt that he took his inspiration from birds and after expressing our opinions on his art work, we also took inspiration from birds and created some nests using charcoal. 

In English, we have been exploring explanation texts. In our table teams, we decided which features should belong in an explanation text and which shouldn't. After that, we created a toolkit that we can use when we create our own explanation texts.