🌟What an amazing and exciting week of learning we’ve had!🌟
✏️ English
In English, we have been expanding our vocabulary in creative ways. We watched a spooky clip of a dark, mysterious forest and worked together to create a class word bank filled with exciting new adjectives. We even explored emotive language, coming up with phrases like heart pounding and body tensing to bring our writing to life.
➗ Maths
This week in Maths, we explored the world of shapes. Using sticks, we created a range of 2D polygons and then constructed 3D shapes such as pyramids, cubes, cuboids, and prisms. We investigated how many edges, vertices, and faces each shape has—it was fascinating to see the connections between them!
🔬 Science
Our new Science topic is Cycles. To begin, we looked at the seasons and discussed how the Earth orbits the Sun. We discovered that our planet’s tilted axis plays a big part in why we experience different seasons—it’s all to do with our distance from the Sun and how much sunlight reaches us throughout the year.
🌍 Geography
In Geography, we started our new unit on Settlements. We learned that a settlement is simply a place where people live. We explored our local settlement, Elm, and discovered it is classed as a village. We made a list of all the facilities we have here. Then, we compared Elm to Peterborough, which is a city, and discussed the wide range of facilities it offers.
🏛️ Latin
Our Latin lessons took us back to the world of Ancient Greece as we studied the famous story of Achilles. We then faced the challenge of translating Latin words into English and used our artistic talents to create a comic strip retelling the story.
