What a busy term we have had!  We have continued learning all about dinosaurs and thinking about our topic question ‘Could a dinosaur live in Wingham?’  We have looked around at the fields and large trees around school to see if there was food, space and opportunities for a dinosaur to live in Wingham. We decided that a small herbivore could potentially live here.

In English we looked at the book ‘Katie and the Dinosaurs’ and we wrote some amazing stories based on the book.  We found out about Mary Anning and wrote a biography about her. We also researched all about dinosaurs and looked at all the features of non-fiction texts.  We made our own fact files about a dinosaur of our choice.

In maths we finished our work on addition and subtraction and we have also been looking at shapes and we looked around the school to see how many 3D shapes we could find.

During Cultural Diversity week we looked at why some people move from one country to another, and what are some reasons families might decide to live in a new place. We thought about how we might feel if we had to move and what we would take with us to help us feel safe and happy.  We bought in special objects from home and wrote about how they make us feel. We planned and designed a pebble that we could keep with us to help us feel safe.

We continue to love our outdoor learning  and we have made dinosaur skeletons from sticks, and dinosaurs using any resources we could find.  We have looked at how the season has changed and we made Autumn inspired art work from the changing leaves.

n art we have been looking at Charles Knight who was a paleo-artist and we have sketched dinosaurs and then painted them in water colours.  We also made some lovely firework pictures.

In DT we researched and designed dinosaur puppets. We have been practicing our sewing skills and it was really wonderful to have our adults come in and help us sew them. 

The last few weeks we have been busy practising and performing our Christmas Nativity, “Angel Express” and it was great to see so many parents come and watch.

In RE we have been learning about advent and the Christmas story.  We went to St Mary’s Church and found out about the nativity and learnt about the lovely stained glass windows. We made stick puppets of the nativity characters and had fun acting out the story.

We have also been learning British Sign Language and we can all sign our names and are learning a few words or phrases every week.

We loved our FLOURISH day and came up with amazing ways to show our understanding of our topic question for this term.