We are surrounded by 'Living Things'

Hello everyone, 

I hope you are enjoying the sunshine!!

Straight after the Easter break with got into a week of maths: we problem solved, measured, worked on graphs, made our own math board games, played different math games and of course all of Primary were involved in the Set tournament. It was a wonderful week of learning and putting what we already know into practice.

In literacy we have been learning all about prepositions, prefixes and comparatives through songs, actions and of course by doing exercises.
Climate change is a huge issue and with Earth Day in April we focused on the effects climate change is having on our world and what we could do to help. We watched interesting videos on this subject, brainstormed ideas on how to help and then 'put pen to paper'. The interesting results can be seen outside our classroom. The children also spoke about this during assembly to make other pupils aware.

In numeracy we have been measuring, weighing and learning about capacities. We have also started to relate division to fractions.

Our new IPC project is called ‘ The Nature of life’. We are, and will be looking at, life cycles from frogspawn to frogs, caterpillars to butterflies and the life cycle of a sea horse. We will also review the cycle from seeds to plants. The children will learn how all living things grow and change, feed and reproduce, and the effect that the environment has on them.
Geffen's Dad, Oren, joined Middle Primary to speak about his job as a biochemist and how it connects with life cycles. We learnt about evolution and Charles Darwin, how different species are similar because they share a common ancestor, how embryonic development is similar among related organisms and we learnt about genes.  We learnt so much!!!

Ine, who is almost a qualified teacher, is finalising her studies with a programme called 'Empowering Education in Europe’. We are very fortunate to have her in our class for the next two weeks. She is actively involved in giving some lessons, guiding the children and helping out in all other areas. 

We celebrated Yumiri and Ediz's birthdays, a lovely time was had eating delicious cakes, thank you!!

Alma and Hector have received the student of the week award for their incredible writing skills. Hector also received the Headmaster award for his huge interest in reading and therefore general knowledge. Well done to both of you!

With Mother’s Day on the 14^th of May, we have been busy with an art activity…..a little surprise is coming your way!!

On this note, I wish all you Mummy’s a lovely Mother’s Day.

Take care

Miss. Rebecca, Miss. Ana and Miss. Ine

Now handing over to Miss. Anelda for your update on Year 3.

Year 3 had a lot of fun during our week of Math. We made a number portrait of ourselves and we had a “ figure me out” quiz where students had to write about themselves using numeracy functions covered in class. We played Math memory games and we did a playground survey which evolved all of middle and upper primary.

Furthermore we have been focusing on weighing objects around the classroom this can be tricky but year 3 is doing great at estimating the weights of different objects. We have been learning about different charts and everybody loved working with Pictographs. It is amazing to see how much progress everyone is making!

During our literacy lesson, year 3 looked at writing poems, the typical features, format and vocabulary used when writing a poem. All poems are on display in front of our classroom on our Poet-Tree, please come and have a look. They did a brilliant job!

Have a great Mother's Day.

Miss. Anelda