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Thursday 26th October 2023
Posted: Oct 26, 2023 by: Megan Eastwood (MEastwood) on: Class 5
Well, we have officially completed our first half term in Class 5 and what a half term it has been!
I have absolutely loved getting to know my new class over the past 8 weeks and have thoroughly enjoyed each and every day of teaching them.
We have learned all about Earth and Space in our topic this half term by looking at why we have day and night, the planets in order from the Sun, the phases of the Moon and time zones. My particular favourite lesson was when we created our very own versions of the 8 planets in our solar system using paper mache. The results were phenomenal!
We have completed SO many different pieces of writing this half term from a setting description of the planet Mars, a poem, a biography and even a fantasy narrative. I have been SO impressed with all the class’s hard work, incredible use of vocabulary and overall general efforts in our English lessons, especially our Litz Blitz which is fast becoming a fan favourite in our class!
Maths has been another very exciting topic this half term. We have covered numbers and place value, negative numbers, Roman numerals, fractions, decimals, division, long multiplication and MORE and again, I have been SO impressed with the hard work put in my all of our classmates in our maths lessons. I have been particularly impressed with how so many children have helped each other with tricky topics and really encouraged a positive growth mindset throughout the classroom. Just WOW.
PE, Music, Art, PSHE, Mandarin and Computing have also been very fun this half term. From drawing our very own chalk pictures of the Moon, to learning about computer systems and search engines and even learning our own Chinese names in Mandarin, the learning and the excitement just hasn’t stopped!
I am so excited to see what next half term brings. We will be starting our brand-new topic ‘It’s All Greek To Me’ learning about modern and ancient Greece, we have tonnes of amazing genres to discover in our English lessons and we will be gearing up for a Christmas production (it will be here before we know it!).
I would like to end by saying a MASSIVE well done and a HUGE thank you to all of the children in class 5 this half term. You have made it an absolute joy to come to work each and every day.
I hope everyone has a great half term break!
Miss Eastwood
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