Ruby class have been busy using their sewing skills to make a cushion this week. We started off by evaluating existing products by exploring a range of cushions and focusing on their purpose and design. We then moved onto designing our own cushion before making a template and cutting it out of fabric. We then sewed them together, turned our cushion inside out and began to stuff it. We completed our cushions today by adding the finishing touches on them using a hot glue gun.
Last week was busy in Ruby class. The children were busy baking and making craft items. We also finished length and perimeter in maths and conducted a science experiment looking at magnetic and non-magnetic items/materials. At the end of the week the whole school joined together with St Pauls for our federation science day, where the children completed a range of exciting and different science activities.
This week is assessment week and we will be making mini cushions as part of our DT project. If you have any spare materials, such as tops, old bed sheets or cotton shirts, that can be donated to help us make our cushions, would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Next week is assessment week and therefore, there will be a DT project that runs along side that.
We will be making small cushions and for this we will be using a range of materials. If you have any cotton shirts or old t-shirts/bed sheets available to donate that would be greatly appreciated.
There has been a lot of snow overnight and the school is shut today. Here are a few tasks for you to complete whilst at home on this snowy day.
Maths
We have been learning about measuring using the units mm, cm, and m. Today, I would like you to find items/objects from around your house to measure. See if you can use all three of the measuring units. You don’t have to record your results, but if you would like too, you may wish to present it like this.
Item/Object
Estimate
Measurement in mm, cm or m.
Also, please continue to practice your 3-, 4- and 8-times tables at home. You can use TTRockstars as a platform to test your knowledge and speed.
Geography
This term we have been learning about villages, towns, and cities. Today I would like you to design your town. Think carefully about what you would like your town to include. You may wish to include places to eat, work or live, shops, a church, theatre or garden centre. Please draw and label your town.
Have fun!
Please do wrap up warm and enjoy some time in the snow!
Are you going to make a snowman or an animal? Will you create a piece of art work by using a stick or other items/ojects to draw in the snow?
Last week we started looking at our new class text ‘The Pebble in my Pocket’ by Meredith Hooper and we planned to write a non-chronological report. In PE we are doing dance this term and the children thoroughly enjoyed putting together a small routine. In science we are looking at forces and magnets and the children investigated how well a car can travel on different surfaces. We also went to church for our Ash Wednesday service and started looking at length and perimeter in maths. Another busy week!
Last week the children were busy baking, creating and learning in a variety of ways. We wrote our pre-historic essay on the Stone Age and finished our unit of multiplication and division in maths. Children should be overly confident on the 2, 5 and 10 times tables and please continue to practice the 3, 4 and 8 times tables at home. These are the ones we have been learning in school. The children enjoyed the visit to the library and also loved the red disco after school on Friday.
Have a great half term everyone and see you in a week all recharged and ready for the new term ahead!
Over the last week and a half, Ruby class have been really creative!
We made fossils out of salt dough to link in with our science learning about what fossils are and how they are formed. We made Stonehenge out of biscuits which links in with our Stone Age learning in history. We have also been sketching prehistoric animals in art and there has been a lot of children independently baking!
We have been working hard on multiplication and division in maths, looking at our 3, 4 and 8 times tables! We wrote a set of instructions in English for Ug to help him make new trousers based on our class text ‘Ug – Boy Genius of the Stone Age’ by Raymond Briggs. There has been lots of creativity this week using different art mediums and textures to make animals from the Ice Age linking in with our History learning.
I hope you’ve all had a lovely Christmas and New Year and are well rested and ready for the new year and term to begin.
The Ruby Class team would like to thank you not only for your continued support but also for your generosity and lovely cards and gifts we received before the Christmas break.
This term:
PE will still be on a Thursday this term so please come dressed in appropriate PE kit.
A very busy week we’ve had! In maths, we started our new unit of multiplication and division, we planned to write an essay about volcanoes in English and finished off our DT electrical poster projects. We also began to create Christmas gonks and wrote our recipes for next week where we will make a festive treat.
Looking forward to next week:
Monday – Christmas jumpers can be worn under school uniform (including blazers)
Tuesday – Pantomime PM – see email. Full uniform.
Wednesday – Christmas jumpers can be worn under school uniform (including blazers)
Thursday – Christmas lunch and Christingle – Christmas jumpers can be worn under school uniform (including blazers)
Friday – Last Day of Term – Christmas jumpers can be worn under school uniform (including blazers)
