Term 3

This term our topic is 'Food'. We have been learning about where the food we eat comes from around the world and finding the countries on a globe and map of the world. We brought food packaging to school to help our discussion and then it was displayed on our classroom wall.

In Art, we made a food plate collage of our favourite food. Don't they make you feel hungry?

In our Literacy lessons, we have been comparing stories and deciding a favourite. We chose to look at 'The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch' and 'The Lighthouse Keeper's Catastrophe'.

We explored the characters through freeze-framing - a drama strategy used for creating a still picture to illustrate a key point in a story.

We explored the feelings of Hamish the cat. We thought about how Hamish was feeling as he travelled in the basket down the wire to the lighthouse. Our words were recorded inside an outline of Hamish and, around the outside, words describing how Mr Grinling was feeling were written. This is called 'Role on the Wall'.

We acted out a 'Conscience Alley'. We discussed whether Mr Grinling should send Hamish in the basket down the wire to the lighthouse. We divided into two groups and lined up facing each other to form an 'alley'. One of us played Mr Grinling and walked through the alley whilst the rest whispered arguments for and against sending Hamish in the basket. 'Mr Grinling' then made a decision when he reached the end of the alley.

We acted out 'The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch' using voices for characters.

In Talk Partners, we shared our ideas suggesting how characters might behave and what they might do next.

We hotseated the character of Mr Grinling. One of us was Mr Grinling and the others asked him questions. 'Mr Grinling's' answers had to be in character.
We explored the feelings of characters in 'The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch' again by moulding statues of Mr Grinling when he was about to travel down the wire to the lighthouse. We worked in pairs - one as the sculptor, the other the clay. The sculptor 'moulds' the clay into a character at a given point of the story. The sculptors then walked around the classroom to look at all the statues. Then roles were swapped over.

We then wrote our own versions of a story about the Lighthouse Keeper. They were fantastic!

We decided to name our cafe in our role play area 'Hamish's Cafe' after Mr Grinling's cat. We serve all kinds of tasty dishes and are open all hours!

In Numeracy, we have been learning about data-handling. We have learned how to use a table to record information using tallying and we can show information in a pictogram. We created a pictogram physically by sliding pictures of fruit onto string.

We then recorded our information as a vertical pictogram.

In groups, we asked different classes in the school which was their favourite healthy snack.

We then used the data to make a horizontal pictogram, using one picture to represent two people.

We were able to look at the pictograms and find out easily which was our favourite healthy snack.

On Shrove Tuesday, we had a class pancake race. It was brilliant fun!!

On 8 February, we celebrated the Chinese New Year with a party. We made Chinese lanterns and New Year Posters to decorate our classroom. We were shown how to use chopsticks and used them to eat a delicious Chinese stirfry. We even had traditional Chinese music playing in the background! We were given a fortune cookie to take home.