In celebration of pancake day, class 4 have been exploring why we celebrate pancake day and how it is celebrated around the world. We learnt that in some countries such as Sweden, sweet pastries are eaten rather than pancakes. We then discussed what our favourite pancake toppings were and used this to design our ‘Dream Pancake’. It was then only right that we were able to try some and just as we predicted…they were delicious!

In Year 1, we have been learning all about Chinese New Year. We learned about how people get ready for Chinese New Year and how they celebrate. We then used our new knowledge to teach our adults and other children in the school all about it in our class assembly!

This week the adults of children in class 4 were invited into school for a very exciting maths morning! The children thoroughly enjoyed showing off their super maths skills through a range of different place value activities!

In Class 4 this week we have been reading ‘Handa’s Surprise’ by Eileen Brown. Today we tried some of the fruits that Handa puts into her basket for her friend, Akeyo. We tried;

🍌banana

🍊tangerines

🥑avocado

🥭mango

🍍pineapple

Some of the fruits we had never tried before but we really enjoyed some of them – others not so much! We then described the taste and textures using a range of different adjectives like smooth, soft, juicy and sweet.

In computing this half term we will be looking at ‘Grouping Data’. As an introduction to this, we started by looking at labels. We discussed where we might find labels and why we use them. We then used labels to help us group objects together🍎✏️🧸

This week Class 4 performed our Christmas show for our adults. We did such an AMAZING  job and the children did so well remembering their lines, songs and actions. Well done Class 4!!🤩

This week the adults of children in class 4 were invited into school for a reading morning! The children really enjoyed showing their adults some of the phonics activities we do in class and showing off how amazing their reading skills are!!📖🌟