This term we have started looking at the question “Are heroes Worldwide?” We have been focussing on Africa and particularly Kenya in our Geography lessons. 

In English we have studied two books, Lila and the secret of rain that was set in Kenya. We wrote the story in our own words using language from the text.  We also made information books about Kenya.  Then we studied the book Meerkat Mail.  We received a very old suitcase from Africa with facts and scary creatures in it! We had to guess who it was from.  It was from a Meerkat! We had great fun acting out the story and finding out lots of facts about all the different mongooses.

In DT we have been looking at African musical instruments, and we have designed our own instruments and will be making them next term. 

In our art lessons we looked at an artist called “Bibi” who is from Nigeria.  We recreated some of her paintings and studied all the different African patterns which we included in the painting. 

We then looked at the work of the Asante people of Ghana and learnt how to weave paper. 

Finally, we made lion pictures using a variety of skills and techniques.  We used pencil to draw accurate lion faces.  We then explored the use of oil pastels to create patterns and texture in our drawing.  Finally, we learnt how to cut and fold accurately in different ways to create the lion’s shaggy mane.

In maths, we finished learning about money and are still working on multiplication and division.  We have used numicon, arrays and numberlines to solve division and multiplication problems. We have also started practicing on times table rock stars!