Getting to grips with time! The Magpies showed some fantastic team work to find the matching pairs. They were all related to time, for instance 60 seconds and 1 minute or a month and about 4 weeks. Can you remember any other matching pairs Magpies? In our theme work we have started creating background for a sea life animation. We used a computer coding programme called Scratch. We had to change the size and colour of our pens as well as use the shape and fill tool to create detailed seascapes. We will add sprites (characters) and write our own code to make them interact. Great start Magpies! We have started fundraising for our class trip to the Wilderness Centre in Mitcheldean where we will make dens and build and cook on campfires! We're holding a cake sale and lucky dip in the coffee break of Learning Together Tuesday 28th February and after school on Wednesday 29th February. Please bring in cakes or prizes if you can and we'd love to see you there to buy some cakes!
We're excited about our Learning Together session next Tuesday. It will focus on how to teach reading in school and how you can help your children at home. There will be more details in the newsletter. See you then!
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Lots of exciting learning has been going on in Magpies... In Maths we're learning to tell the time! We're getting down to the knitty gritty of it by learning to tell the time to the exact minute! We're also becoming familiar with the 24 hour clock. Remember to practise telling the time at home Magpies - that will help you become experts! We're also really excited about the 99 club (a fast-paced fantastic way of learning our addition and multiplication facts). Lots of the Magpies are moving up clubs..."Moving on up, moving on up, nothing can stop us now!!" Have a peek at our Science board. You'll see a collection of all of our fantastic work on volcanoes. We learnt about the different types of volcanoes, the parts of a volcano and what happens when they erupt! In DT most of us have finished our 3D models of an island. We used a range of materials to create the geographical features found on an island. We had to think of creative ways to cut and stick the materials and we used some of our skills in colour mixing. Our new topic in Science is sea animals and we have already made a good start to this by classifying different sea animals. Can you remember which animals we researched that were part of the mammal, crustacean and mollusc groups?!
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