Music
As usual, Monday started on a musical note, as the year 3 children learnt to hold their bows correctly. It was very tricky getting the finger positions just right. We also learnt lots of exercises to help us strengthen the muscles in our bowing arm. We also learnt three new words that will help us when we compose: pizzicato, arco and tremolo. Ask us what they mean!
Literacy
We learnt how to use a dictionary this week to find the definitions of interesting words. We learnt how to find the right section of the dictionary quickly, when looking up a word by using the four quartiles and the information at the top of the page. We looked up words, searching with the first three letters and corrected some that were written incorrectly.
We also started our new non-fiction literacy topic: instructions. We started by identifying the useful language used when giving successful instructions whilst we played barrier games. It was such a challenge! We had to make sure to include lots of details and use lots of accurate positional language.
Maths
What an exciting week we have had this week with maths! During our maths sessions we have had a week of inspirational maths with a strong focus on positive thinking and growth mind-set. Did you know when you make a mistake your brain actually grows? We have been making plenty of mistakes, taking our time, persevering, believing in ourselves and visualising maths as we attempted different investigations everyday.
In other news...well done to some of our year 2 children as they went out of school for an agility event. They hopped, skipped and jumped their way though twelve different challenges to earn themselves lots of sticker and a certificate.
Finally, there are a few places left on the year 2/3 evening reading cafe. Come and enjoy a story with Miss Palmer and Mrs Cryan in the year 2 classroom and a hot chocolate with friends before bedtime.
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