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Friday 23rd February 2024
Posted: Feb 23, 2024 by: Megan Eastwood (MEastwood) on: Class 5
Our first week back to Spring 2 term has started off amazingly.
We have dived straight into our new English topic where we have written diary entries from the viewpoint of the main character of one of the books we have been reading in class. We completed lots of role play exercises to get into the mindset of the main character, Bradley, before writing out different diary entries from events we had read in the book, imagining how Bradley REALLY felt about them. I am so excited to read the finished pieces of work over the weekend.
In Maths it has been angles and measurements central! We learned about how many degrees are in a right angle, straight line, ¾ turn and a full turn and then applied that knowledge to work out missing angles of rectangles and regular polygons. Not only that but we learned how to use a protractor too.
We started our brand-new Science topic too, ‘Animals including humans’ where we started to look at the life cycle of humans by checking out some rather embarrassing photos of myself from my childhood until now to see how much I have changed so far in my life cycle. We then went on to learn what the gestation period means and how this differs for many different mammals.
We are continuing our work on Rainforests this half term and this week we extended our knowledge to learn about different climate zones around the Earth.
The children have also been well under way practicing for their Strictly Pennine dance performance next week. Having watched them perform it through from start to finish this week, I must say I am extremely impressed and cannot wait for the actual performance next week!
Finally, we were treated to an incredible pantomime production this week at Holmfirth High. The children represented the school fantastically, walking very sensibly all the way to the school (in the pouring down rain!) and sat amazingly well during the entire performance. It was a great show, and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone.
Thank you,
Miss Eastwood
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