Review and preview

English	This week we watched video footage of the floods that Pattaya recently suffered and took notes, drafted and edited before writing our final copy this coming Monday.	Next week we will complete our final copy of our newspaper report and then begin our study of Jacqueline Wilson's book The Suitcase Kid
Maths	This week we developed our understanding of how to read a 24 hour clock and timetable. We also used doubling or halving twice to multiply or divide by 4 accordingly.	Next week we will continue to look at measure by converting metric measurements, as well as calculating the perimeter of shapes.
Art	We focussed on adding texture to our drawings of dinosaurs using coloured pencils.	Next week we will be making 3D flowers from different materials.
PSHE	We discussed what a good friend can do to help us remain calm in stressful situations	This week we will talk about what strategies we can use to help remain calm in uncomfortable situations.
Humanities	We have been thinking what can we learn from fossils. For example, how the dinosaurs may have lived or died and what they may have eaten by looking at their teeth.	Next week we will be looking at how dinosaurs protected themselves and going on a fossil hunt.
Science	This week we look at what a seed needs to germinate and what a food chain of a dinosaur may have been like.	Next week we will be carrying out some experiments on seed germination and learning about photosynthesis.
Notices and Events	We have PE on Monday. We have Swimming on Tuesday. We have Library on Thursday (remember to bring your books) We have Golden Time on Friday (remember to bring a toy)

Adding texture to drawings with coloured pencil.

The children have done really well developing their ability to add texture to their drawings as well as keeping the perspective appropriate.

Circle time

Last week in circle time we discussed what makes a good friend. This week we thought about how we can help our friends when they are upset. We came up with three questions to ask our friends in this situation to try to help them.
1. What happened?
2. Are you ok?
3. What can I do to help?

What's in the blurb?

Today, during Guided Reading, we talked about who reads the blurb on the back of a book before deciding whether to read it or not. Interestingly, a large number of children admitted to not reading the blurb before picking their books. Hopefully after today, when we identified all the interesting words contained within a range of blurbs, along with all the clues to the type of genre, that will now change!   

Pollination - a hive of activity!

We have been actively learning about the pollination process this week. The children took on the parts of the stamen ( the male part of a flowering plant), the carpel (the female part of a flowering plant) and various pollinators such bats, shrews, butterflies, bees or humming birds, travelling from plant to plant. Ask your child what is the difference between self pollination and cross pollination, which one is best for the plant and why. The photos will hopefully give you an insight in to how much the children enjoyed the activity.

Review and preview week

English	We continued our work on recounts and looked at a video of a news report,  focusing on how direct speech and reported speech are recorded.	Next week we will be focusing on news recounts of real life events, incorporating who, what, when, where, why and how.
Maths	This week we developed our understanding of how to apply our mental calculation strategies for multiplying by 20, 25 and 9. We also learnt how to multiply and divide decimals by 10 and 100.	Next week we will look at measure including time and converting metric measurements. We will continue to develop our mental calculation strategies including multiplying and dividing by 4 using doubling and halving.
Art	We used our knowledge of sketching to draw a dinosaur focusing on perspective.	We will be focusing on adding texture to our drawings of dinosaurs using coloured pencils.
PSHE	We discussed what makes a good friend.	We will be discussing what we can do to remain calm in stressful situations
Humanities	We have taken notes and recounted how fossils can be formed, including a labelled diagram	Next week we will be thinking what can we learn from fossils.
Science	This week we acted out the process of pollination and found out about seed dispersal.	Next week we will look at what a seed needs to germinate and what a food chain of a dinosaur may have been like.
Notices and Events	We have PE on Monday. We have Swimming on Tuesday. We have Library on Thursday (remember to bring your books) We have Golden Time on Friday (remember to bring a toy) It's also House Colour's Day on Friday.

Well done done in assembly!

A great big thank you to all the class for a great effort in assembly today. You spoke very well and helped give the Primary School a better understanding of just how long ago, 252,000,000 years was,  when the dinosaurs lived. If one year on the time line is the same as 1cm on the ground, then how far away from Bangkok would the dinosaurs be? They would be an amazing 2520 km away in Indonesia.