Last week Emily, Mina and Carys read a poem called The Kitty Ran Up the Tree. We made a connection that this poem matched the rhythm of a song from Alice in Wonderland.
Did you know that some words sound exactly the same, even though they're spelt different and have different meanings?
Mina, Carys and Emily L. have been learning about these words called homophones and started by matching them up in a game... now they're stretching themselves by playing homophone memory!
If you'd like to learn how to play, you might like to ask them to teach you!
Emily's been busy making good use of her spare time... she's been building her capacity in literacy!
Would you like to try the same activity at home? Write down all of the letters in the alphabet and see what words you can come up with that start with those letters. Good luck!
We have been learning how to type using Dance Mat Typing on the computers.
It is lots of fun and can be quite hard and stretchy.
Miss Holland helped us to make a video about it for you to watch. If you come to assembly tomorrow (and you should, if you can!) you might even see us up on the big screen.
Some of the other learners in the hub will be showing off what they've learnt in phonics too.
We'd love to see you at the assembly tomorrow at 9 o'clock!
Whilst our other fabulous learners are getting their teeth into phonics, Emily L., Carys and Mina have been building their learning capacity in a different way... they've been learning to type on the computer using Dance Mat Typing.
Over the past few days, Emily has been reading a book called 'Electricity Makes Things Work'. She showed a lot of determination in reading a scientific text and today we borrowed the electrical gear from LH3 and had a go at marking circuits ourselves. We had to use diagrams to find the different pieces we needed and we had to follow picture diagrams to put our circuit together. Then we experimented with making our own circuits and seeing what worked, and what didn't.
Today I learnt that electricity goes in a direction, because when I put the battery in the wrong way, it didn't work. When my circuit got really big it went down (the volts on the volt meter) and the light stopped working because it didn't have enough power. When I made a little circuit, it went bigger (the measurement on the volt meter) and the light was bright. The red bulb was brighter than the yellow bulb and the green one didn't work at all. I used a switch to turn the light on and off. It worked when I pressed down on the switch because it wasn't connected together, until I pressed it, and then it was and the light worked. When the light is going, it is a closed circuit and when the light is not going, it is a open circuit. It was exciting making circuits because I could find out about things. By Emily
Each Friday we get into our poetry groups and learn a new poem. This is something we look forward to! We've been learning about things like rhyming words and adjectives.
