Month: September 2023

In maths we have been learning about ratios.

Ratios are really fun! you get to use shapes or pictures a little bit like algebra.

A ratio question could look like this :

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Then you would need to answer by saying what the ratio is. The answer to this one would be 3:2 or 3 to 2.

You can also use different images like this

🌷🌷  🌿🌿🌿🌿 What is the ratio of tulips to leaves ?  The answer is 2 to 5. Or 🙂🍩🍩🍩 What is the ratio of doughnuts to smiley faces ?  The answer would be 3 to 1.

On Friday after learning about ratios all week, we got to make fruit kebabs!

We had to decide what we wanted to put on them. Then we said what the ratio was.

We could chose between grapes, marshmallows, tinned pineapple and banana.

I chose grapes and pineapple.

My ratio is 3 to 2.

This week we did Fun Day Friday again!

This week the knitting group was a lot bigger than usual. We had nine people!

Last time we only had three of  us.

Because some of us could already knit and some couldn’t, we went into pairs and taught our buddies how to knit.

Here is a picture of me and my buddy.

At lunch after Fun Day Friday, my friends and I sat on the seats outside our classroom and worked on our knitting.

One of my friends even said she could show me how to finger knit! I thought it would be really complicated but turns out it’s actually really easy. You don’t even need knitting needles! My finger knitting is super long.

Have you ever knitted anything?

Or would you ever want to learn?

We have been learning about Ancient Egypt.

This week in reading, instead of doing our normal rotations, we have been doing activities around Ancient Egypt.

We pretend that we’re stuck in ancient Egypt and we need to get back to the present date.

Every day we have a new task to complete. There are eight tasks to complete. For every task we complete, we get a gold coin (a paper one, not real money). We need eight coins to get back to the present.

The activities are really fun! I’m on task five.

Today I did task four. It was about Sphinx.

A Sphinx is a statue that has the body of a lion and the head of a pharoh

This is a Sphinx:

Learning about ancient Egypt is really fun and interesting!

Would you want to learn about it too?

This term we have been doing persuasive writing.

Every week we do a new piece of writing.

This week we are writing about if we think our school should have a uniform.

I’m writing that I think we should have a uniform because we look smart and no one can be picked on for having different clothes.

Last week we wrote about whether we should have fitness every day. (I wrote no. I hate tagging games).

What do you think?

Would you write that you think yes or no?

This term my class has been doing Fun Day Friday activities!

For Friday Fun Days we split our class into five groups. Every group does a different activity. There’s a group that does gardening, one that does cooking, woodwork, science/languages and my group : Knitting. We do Friday Fun Days every other Friday for an hour. I love being in the knitting group! Last time, we learnt to cast on and do a simple knit stitch. This week we started learning how to pearl. It’s a bit confusing, but not too hard once you get used to it. I love knitting.

What group would you want to be in for a Friday Fun Day?