Micro habitats

During our Forest Schools session we looked at micro habitats. We went on a hunt to look for micro habitats and made a tally chart of the living things we found in these micro habitats.

Music

This week in music we have been learning about pulse and tempo. At the beginning of the lesson we moved along to the pulse of the music following the penguins and we also warmed our faces up ready for singing. We sang a song and our partners tried to play the notes along with it on the glockenspiel.  Part of the lesson was listening to the music Bolero, we watched an orchestra playing this piece of music and tried to identify the pulse.

Habitats in our school ground

This week we have been learning about different habits of living things. We have identified the habitats that we find around school on a simple map.

Team building in PE

This term we are focusing on team building in our Thursday afternoon PE sessions. This week we took part in some Pirate activities, starting off with the game “Captains Coming” and then working as teams to help all the pirates in our crew move from one “island” (side of the hall) to the other “island” (the other side of the hall).

Facts about the 7 continents

This week in geography we learnt about the 7 different continents and learnt facts about all the 7 continents. We used fact cards, atlases and topic books to help.

Photography

Last week and this week during our computing sessions we have been developing photography skills, thinking about keeping the photo in focus and deciding whether a photo is better taken in landscape or portrait.

Music

This term we are having a break from penny whistle lessons, this week we explored the glockenspiels. We identified the pulse in a piece of music and then tried to play along with a simple piece of music.

Moving around the apparatus

This week in our gymnastics session we explored different ways of moving over the apparatus

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Climates around the world

This week we have been learning about hot, cold and warm climates around the world. We located North and South pole regions in relation to the equator. Children then used an atlas to locate countries in a cold, hot and warm climate on the map. Some children completed world jigsaws and some children traced a world map.