Term 3

This term we have been looking at the question “Are all villages the same?” We have been comparing Wingham village to villages and life in Africa. We have had a very jam packed term and are all very sad to be finishing this topic.

In English we have studied two books, Lila and the secret of rain that was set in Kenya.  We also made fact files about Kenya.  Then we studied the book Meerkat Mail and 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 made and designed our own instruments. 

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 also used on our instruments.

In Science we have been studying plants and we are growing our own plants. We have been looking at the scientific enquiry of fair testing and observing changes over time and have placed seeds all over the classroom to see what they need to grow.

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. Some of us are getting very competitive while practicing our times tables on “Times tables rock stars”    

When the weather has allowed, we have continued with our forest school lessons and we made African huts and also looked at plants, 

In PE we have been learning Kurling and can push a stone onto a target.  We love our kurling lessons! We have also been doing gymnastics and has been great using the big apparatus in the hall.

In RE we have been thinking about why it is important for Jewish people to do as God asks them to do. We found out about the festival of Passover and the significance of the Sedar Meal.

In RE we have been thinking about why it is important for Jewish people to do as God asks them to do. We found out about the festival of Passover and the significance of the Sedar Meal.

In Geography we have learnt about the continents.  We can identify the continent of Africa and have learnt a lot about Kenya.