Spring Term Learning Journey – Our World Through Time

Reception: This week we have become scientists to learn about other good habits that we need in order to keep our bodies healthy. We have done a couple of science experiments: one to demonstrate the importance of washing our hands properly, and another one where we used eggs to investigate what different drinks (milk, water, cola and orange juice) do to our teeth! We have really been using our making links tool to create some great posters promoting good habits for kids to grow strong and healthy!

Year 1 have been using their imagining and making links tools to start writing their own stories based on the book ‘The Sea Saw’. The children have used their plans from last week to help them write an interesting beginning and middle of their story. They have been great at remembering to use the correct punctuation and have been challenging themselves to add adventurous adjectives to their work. We can’t wait to read the final stories!

Year 2 used their imagining tool to complete an obstacle course around the playground, thinking about all the skills a fire fighter might need. We then used the pictures we took to describe our skills and what we did at each station. We have been writing some amazing recounts using time adverbials and adverbs to keep our reader interested.

Year 3 have been making great use of their planning and imagining tools to write the story of Mary Anning’s amazing fossil find. We have also been having fun with money in maths, playing shopkeepers and working out how much change to give when buying things.

Year 4 used their imagining tool to come up with amazing similes and personification related to the new Literacy book, ‘Varmints’. They also collaborated to make oobleck, a physics-bending non-Newtonian suspension of cornstarch and water, which behaved like a solid or a liquid depending on how much pressure we applied!

Year 5 have been using their reasoning tool in science to discuss how they know that the Earth is not flat! They also used their making links tool to connect different pieces of information and evidence, then used their imagining tool to think about what it might have been like to ponder the same questions thousands of years ago.

Year 6: the Y6 team would like to say a massive CONGRATULATIONS to all the children for completing their SATs! They used their whole tool kit to complete their assessments with confidence. The hard work is not over yet! We have some exciting projects coming up and more engaging learning to complete!

House Points Total this week!

175

166

164

Coming Up

Friends of Dulwich Wood

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