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This week we have continued out Literacy unit on Animal Poetry. For the first few days we concentrated on tenses in poetry, specifically looking at past and present progressive (continuous) and present perfect tense. The students have been reading a selection of different animal poems before choosing their favourites to write in their very own poetry anthologies.

The students have become 3D shape experts, understanding the properties of shapes, including faces, edges and vertices, and identifying 3D shapes out of the classroom. We are now learning about angles, with the students practising turns of 90, 180 and 360 degrees.

Our Topic lessons this week have taken us to the ancient Egyptian pyramids. The students learned about how the structures evolved and then had a challenge to design and build their very own pyramids using only two materials: toothpicks and clay. The students showed really great teamwork and built some very interesting structures!

Our class plants for the experiment are thriving….well, some of them! The students are enjoying taking care of their group plants and observing the changes. They are already starting to notice the ones that are growing the healthiest (the control with sunlight, soil and water) and have been surprised to see that the seeds with no sunlight have germinated quickly, but certainly don’t have a healthy colour! We’ll continue the experiment before concluding what factors seeds need to germinate healthily.

Have a great weekend, everyone!