Weekly Update – T2W4

Firstly, I would like to say how nice it was to meet many of you this week. Thank you for coming in/meeting online. Please do feel free to contact me anytime if you ever have any questions, concerns or are curious about anything at all. No matter how big or small I am always happy to hear from you. 

We have had a good first week back after the Seollnal Holiday and lots of learning took place. 

In IPC, we started our new unit ‘Buildings’. We began the week with our ‘Entry Point’ where I tried to get the children to think about how things are built and what materials are used to make them. We started off by trying to make our own houses out of playing cards. It was very tricky to do but the children persevered, and with the help of some tape managed to create their own buildings! We realised that the cards were not strong enough and fell over very easily so we used our brains to think of another way. I brought in 1000 chopsticks and we tried to make a masterpiece out of chopsticks, elastic bands and tape. These were much more impressive 🙂 We also researched buildings and homes from around the world. We cut out pictures and created our very own ‘buildings and homes’ posters. This was to check the students prior knowledge of buildings and the materials they are made from. We then finished off the week by going outside and looking at our school building. The students drew sketches of the building and had to write down all the different materials it is made of. Next week we will use these sketches to complete a pastel drawing of the school. 

In English this week we have been learning about the suffixes ‘ed’ and ‘-ing’. The students were already familiar with using the past tense, however, the rules to using ‘ing’ were new and so we spent some time practising using each one. 

We will be starting a new unit on rhymes next week and I am excited to get started with this one. It is always lots of fun!

In PSHE, we reviewed different types of jobs and discussed what we would like to be when we grow up. The students practised using the connective ‘because’ to let everyone know why they wanted to do a particular job. It was great to hear about their dreams. 🙂

We ended the day with some great team building activities in games!