Geography, maths and instruments

This week, in English, we built on our understanding of the story 'The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch' by ordering and retelling the events. We also thought about asking questions to Mr Grinling. The children had a go at putting themselves into his shoes and answered each other's questions. Finally, we used our inference skills to think about how other characters in the story were feeling.

In maths, we have continued securing our knowledge of addition and subtraction and used the base 10 resources to help us understand the value of the numbers before correctly calculating answers.  Our maths has been very practical based to secure this skill and the children have then recorded independently using the Base 10 to support them.  

On Tuesday, Leopard Class used recycling to make their own musical instruments. They made shakers and had a go at playing them along with a piece of music. On Friday, the children named and played a variety of instruments, they fully enjoyed doing this!

This week, we began our new Geography topic ‘What do I know about my island home?’. We will be learning all about the four countries of the United Kingdom during this topic and already this week we have found out many interesting facts about England and Scotland.  We have looked at capital cities and landmarks.  Using google earth we travelled to the cities and zoomed into see what we could spot.  London in very busy but Scotland may have its very own mythical creature living in Loch Ness!

Miss McMillan and the Leopard Class team :)

NOTE:

• Mrs Rous will be teaching Leopard Class on Friday.