This week in maths we are learning how to answer questions using information in graphs and plotting our own graphs.

Some examples of questions you could ask…

How many taxis went past in one minute?
How many more cars than lorries went past in one minute?
How many motorbikes and buses went past in one minute?

Making Hand Puppets

A big thank you to all the parents who came in to our class on Thursday to lend a hand with our D & T lesson. We are making hand puppets and the sewing and cutting part was very tricky! We will be continuing this project every Monday afternoon until half term and your help would be very much appreciated!

Paddingon Art Competition

Well Done Amina and Rina!

Amina and Rina attended the prize giving ceremony at Paddington for the competition they entered a few months ago. Amina got first prize for her pastel landscape drawing and Rina came second using the same materials. Amina's card can now be bought in the Paddington Art shop so she really is an artist!

Amina proudly shows her framed, winning design.

Rina holds high her Runners Up certificate.

Wonderful Work

Wonderful Work!

Please feel free to have a peep around the door of our classroom and have a look at the wonderful work board. Work is changed about once every 2 weeks and all kinds of wonderful work is used, from Art to Maths.

Look at our Burglar Alarms!

Science in Literacy

We have been making circuits in Science whilst learning about Electricity. In Literacy today we use our knowledge about circuits and switches to make a burglar alarm! First we built a lego house and then added our buzzer circuit. You can see pictures of our finished burglar alarms below:

Next week we will write an EXPLANATION text explaining how our burglar alarms work. We will also add diagrams and flowcharts to make our explanations even clearer. We will draw a circuit diagram like the one above with labels. Instead of a light bulb we used a buzzer to make the burglar jump!

Explanation Texts - Literacy Learning

In Literacy next week we will be looking at Explanation texts and flowcharts.

Look at the explanation text and flowchart above and ask your child to spot the features of explanation texts. These are listed below:

Can you find: introduction, heading, technical words, diagrams, photographs, labels and captions.

Well Done Amina!!!! Amina has won the Paddington Waterside Art Competition, and will have her wintery image produced into a Christmas card. All th children entered the competition but Amina was the lucky winner. She used pastels and chalk to create her winter waterside scene.

Maths on the Internet:

We are currently learning about data in Numeracy and there are lots of wonderful websites that your child can use to practice things such as Bar Graphs, Tables and Carroll diagrams.

Click on these links below to have a look...

http://http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/publications/mathematics/12874/nns_useict026000carroll.swf

http://http://tlfe.org.uk/interactive/ - lots of different interactive activities on here for you to try.

You should also be practising your mental maths, especially odd and even numbers, more and less than and bonds to 20.