As part of our Mantle focussing on Horton hears a Who, we ventured outside to find our own specks that could possibly have its own Who-ville! We used our iPad skills to take pictures zooming into the speck as much as possible.
Finding some specks
Poetry
Today it was our turn to work with Cheryl. We thought about who we are, what makes us us. Then we explored cinquain poems and the rules around them. We worked together to write a class cinquain about Refuge.
Finally we explored the idea of sanctuary…how we offer it when someone needs refuge.
Mindfulness mandala drawing and creativity and some baking with Y4 and Y6- As part of our RVE work on Buddhism this half term! We thoroughly enjoyed our afternoon and the biscuits were very tasty!
Circus Skills with Peter Duncan
We enjoyed a super Circus Skills session yesterday with Peter – great development of fine and gross motor skills, thinking and problems solving skills. Well done to all of of our resilient learners who persevered and kept trying! Da iawn!
Aharsi: The Bengal Tiger
We celebrated International Mother Tongue Day by joining other schools in Powys for a Live event retelling the story of ‘Aharsi: The Bengal Tiger’. Pupils enjoyed listening and joining in with the story and developing their language skills. They listened carefully and were able to answer lots of questions about the story. Da iawn Pawb!
Circus Skills with Peter Duncan
Such fun this morning developing our collaboration and physical skills through lots of great circus activities.
Goodlands and Badlands
We have worked with Sharon Ginnis (Story Teller) to create our story about ‘Good Lands and Bad Lands’
In our story there is a Good Land where everyone is happy and it is a pleasant place to live. There is also a Bad Land. A wall separates the Good Land and the Bad Land. No one from Good Land has ever been to Bad Land. Bad Land is dark with smoke billowing from it.
A resident from Bad Land came to the Good Land and explained that the smoke was from a volcano and that lots of residents of Bad Lands would need shelter. So the Good Land residents decided that they would take a vote and think of some rules that they could put in place to ensure that everyone was happy and safe.
To be continued……
Rounding to the nearest 10
Children have been working really hard rounding to the nearest ten this week. They have collected natural items such as sticks and they have measured them. They have then rounded their measurements to the nearest 10. We have also used number lines to support our understanding of place value.
Poetry Residence
We have been really fortunate to work with poet, Cheryl Moskowitz. (http://www.cherylmoskowitz.com/published-works.html)
Cheryl is a leading practitioner in the field of writing and well-being and has been working in schools for 30+ years, supporting teachers and enabling children to explore the magic of words and poetry.
Cheryl worked with us to write a cinquain about places that we find are places of sanctuary (noddfa)
Cheryl is also helping us to produce a Poetry “Zine”.
Poet in Residence
Yesterday, we had the pleasure of working with poet Cheryl. We thought about ‘Sanctuary’ and what that means to both humans and animals. We then went on to thought shower chosen animals, from ladybirds to wolves. Cheryl then went on to put our ideas into a wonderful poem, ‘Not that Different From You and Me.’