Current Word: Hopeless

Previous Words: Inspired

Our Class Reading Log:
In Geckos class, we have a reading log that will come home Friday-Monday or Monday-Friday, accompanied by our class dragon, Star! Children are encouraged to read with/to Star and record their reading habits into the book.

Thursday 23rd October

The final outcomes from our Art unit on drawing & painting, focusing on colour and Fauvism, were a great array of contrasting colours in bold landscapes and portraits!

Take a look at our art display!

 

13th-17th October: International Week 

Today we delved into South Africa, by learning about its location and geography, its flag and some of the languages spoken there. In imitation of the Springboks, we played some Rugby, practising our throwing & catching and scoring tries!

This afternoon, we learned about some of the wildlife in South Africa, looked at Miss Honour's Safari photos and created our own sunset silhouette images. Take a look at the photos for examples of our creations. 

To finish International Week, today we watched traditional South African dancing and practiced some dance moves to imitate. We stepped in rhythm to African drumming and extended ourselves by using a variety of arm movements too.

Friday 10th October: Our Class Assembly!

We were very impressed and proud of all Geckos today in our class assembly, as everyone remembered their lines and delivered them confidently to the audience. We hope you learned lots of facts about our Solar System and paid attention to the detail in our song (what is the geocentric model of the Solar System, and is it the one we hold today?), as well as admiring our pastel drawings of the planets! 

*Photos to come*

 

Thursday 9th October: Chiltern Chalk Streams Visit

This afternoon, Year 5 had a visit from Laura from Chiltern Chalk Streams, who told us all about our local river, the Ver, and the rare chalk streams nearby 🏞️ We leaned about the 

We also investigated how much water there is in the world and how to save water in our everyday lives 💧

Check out the last photo for our reconstruction of a chalk stream - what features can you see?

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6th October: Our assembly artwork!
To get ready for our assembly on Friday, we made space-themed pastel artwork of the planets and the other objects in our Solar System!

 

30th September: Maths
During Maths this week, we have been investigating decimal numbers, looking at 2 & 3 decimal places (so using tenths and hundredths!). We played a game against different partners, using a dice to create the smallest decimal numbers we could!