Buddy Reading With Kindergarten

The children were super role models as they read to the children in Miss Myshi's class. A good time was had by one and all.

Review & preview

English	This week we have begun looking at stories from different cultures around the world. We did some great research on our visit to the Bat Cat Museum for our subsequent comic strip story, that we will be writing to share with the children of Camillian House, next month.	Next week we will continue to read and analyse stories from around the world and begin to write and edit our own stories.
Maths	This week finished off our equivalent fractions work and continued to use mental methods for multiplying by 10 and 100. We began to use written methods for multiplying 3 or 4 digit numbers by single digits.	Next week we will continue to develop the use of written methods of multiplication and division.
Art	Last week we listened to different types of music and thought about how it makes us think or feel. We recorded what those thoughts and feelings in our sketch books	This week we will begin to represent how sounds and music can be represented by shapes and colours in our painting.
PSHE	This week we thought about how we enjoy ourselves, keep safe and get the most out of our museum trip.	How we can help others by communicating through our Literacy work.
Humanities	This week we have begun learning about the different continents and oceans of the world.	Next week we will be researching information about the Antartic and presenting it as a travel brochure.
Science	This week we discovered how sound is created.	Next week we will be learning about how sound travels and how fast it travels.
Notices and Events	Next week is Book Week. We have PE on Monday. We have Swimming on Tuesday. We have Library on Thursday (remember to bring your books). Golden time is on Friday. Don't forget to dress up as a book character also.

Halloween

Thanks to Logan's parents for the group photographs.

Bat Cat Museum

The children were a real credit to themselves and our school, with the way they applied themselves on our trip today. They were all actively engaged researching and recording characters that will be their spring board for creating their own comic strip story.

Kandinsky and Synesthesia

Linking to our Sound work in science, Kandinsky used Wagner's music to inspire his art and represented the sounds as shapes, colours, lines and repeated patterns. We listened to the music below, discussed and recorded what shapes, colours, patterns or emotions it made us think of. 

Wagner
Trumpet
Violin
Piano

We will begin painting our pictures , inspire by the music next week.

The Science of Sound

The children wanted to know how sound is created. So we discovered how things vibrate to make a sound feeling our voice box, observing how sand bounced around inside a plastic box placed on a speaker as a drum beat and experimenting with a ruler.