Team AC love their art! The children have produced some amazing artwork this term so far. They have looked at how we can develop our drawing skills by looking at how portraits can be changed from simple line drawings to more detailed work by adding shade, tone and colour. The children have also been introduced to the artist of the term, Barbara Hepworth. They found out who she was and why she was famous. They learnt about the type of art she created and talked about which pieces of her work they liked. They gave reasons for their choice and said what they thought each piece looked like. The children then made their own sculpture and said what was the same and what was different about their work and Barbara Hepworth's work. We've also managed to link our artwork to our history topic - looking at life in prehistoric times. The children found out about how Stone Age people communicated their ideas through cave drawings. They learnt how important these drawings were as evidence of the past. They then had a go at creating their own drawings.
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This week we have talked about why we have bonfire night. We looked at the history of bonfire night and why we celebrate every year. The children then acted out the gunpowder plot to retell in their own words. They used vocabulary including, history, parliament, plotters, evidence, treason and torture.
Children were asked the key question
Children watched a video of the events surrounding the Gunpowder Plot. They were given chance to make notes and discuss further key question
Children acted out the different parts of the story showing their ability to recount the gunpowder plot. We have listened to ‘Sparkle in the Sun’ and have learnt to sing this using the on screen words – the children are particularly good at the chorus. We have moved to the beat and discussed how the beat is ‘Steady’ like a heart beat throughout the song. We have discussed how the long notes are on the end of the lines in the chorus and we have used actions to show understanding of short notes (tap tap tap with fingers – jumpy notes) and long sounds (we opened up our hands wide to the length of the note). We have used the Glockenspiels to play a G drone, a simple GA pattern and a GAB pattern to accompany the chorus of the song. We have looked at the instruments and discussed how the higher pitched notes are smaller in size and the lower pitch notes are larger in size. The children were also made aware that there is more than 1 G note on the instrument and we played them to find out how they are different. We have been learning: Literacy - how to use adjectives, nouns and wow words to paint pictures with words and create some imaginative Halloween poems. Maths - how to work out the difference, counting up from the smaller number to the larger number. Music -how to play a simple tune on the glockenspiel involving the three notes GAB. Spanish - how to say stone age, bronze age, roman empire and iron age in Spanish (this is hard!) to fit in with our history learning. We have also revised simple greetings and learnt how to ask for a ham sandwich on the dinner register (sandwich de jamon por favor) Gymnastics - how to link some of our low level shapes into a short sequence and perform with a friend mirroring each other. RE - about Diwali the festival of light. What a busy week its been in Team AC! Here's a round up of some of the things we have been doing. Maths - addition and subtraction by rounding up or down to the nearest 10. As well as our weekly times table practise - this week focusing on 2x table. Literacy - Autumn List Poems - we had fun looking for signs of Autumn in the school grounds before returning to the classroom to write our ideas using nouns, adjectives and verbs. We then started to list our ideas as a poem. Keep a look out for our completed poems! We've also taken time to work on our oracy by presenting our work to to others and sharing books and poems.
History - we've been learning about the three different periods in the Stone Age with new vocabulary to learn - Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic. We looked at how life changed during this time and answered questions about why these changes occurred. Computing - in computing we have learnt about digital devices and compared different digital devices looking at what they can do for example; take pictures, create sounds, send messages etc. We looked at input and output and what these words mean - creating our own human input/output machine. Art - In art over the past few weeks we have thought carefully about the basics of art and what the words 'shade, line, tone, colour' mean. We have investigated this through a series of self portraits. RE - In RE we have looked at Judaism - what it means to be Jewish. We looked a special words focusing on the Torah Scroll and why it is important to Jewish people. PSHE - we have reminded ourselves about what 'feelings' are and why they are important. We have looked at what we can do to change negative feelings into positive ones and how what we say and do can effect others feelings. This week we have been... In Maths - learning how to compare numbers using < > and = and partitioning/combining numbers (e.g. 49 = 40 + 9) In Literacy - learning how to write a playscript about the killer cat and his family (these were really funny!) Science - learning how we see things with our eyes and how some materials are more reflective than others. check out the following links for the science videos and activities that we used in lessons: How does the eye detect light? - BBC Bitesize |
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