London - What is it like in a city?

 This week our focus on London and what it is like in a city. We started the week listening to the story “All Aboard the London Bus” by Patricia Toht. This book introduced us to England’s capital city and it’s well-known landmarks like Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and the London eye. We were then able to answer ‘what’, ‘why’ and ‘where’ questions and what we had heard. The next day we were able to name some of the landmarks which we had seen in the book and learnt names about different landmarks. We then looked at aerial views of London and Wombwell and explored how they are similar and different. We discussed how London had lots of tall buildings and flats, how the streets were always busy and how London had an underground. We said this was different to Wombwell because Wombwell has housing estates and woods and it doesn’t have lots of skyscrapers!
We have had the opportunity to create our own London bus books about what is in London. We have had the opportunity to make Busby Guards and use the construction resources to build some of the landmarks we have learnt.

We have also enjoyed listening to "Paddington's Post' and "The Bear and the Piano".

Here are some photos of this weeks learning: