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Volcano Vocabulary

We are moving on with our learning to investigate the answer to the question:

How do natural disasters shape the Earth?

We have started to learn about the make-up of the Earth. We watched this great video clip to help up us to understand. 

 To help us with our writing over the coming weeks our home learning task is to learn some of the vocabulary and spellings that we will be using. Mrs Measures talked to us in assembly yesterday about symbolism.

Can you use the BSL system to help you learn some of the vocabulary?

Click here to see your home learning.

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Marvellous Maths

Today we have been introduced to our first Mental Maths Home Learning task. Click here for a link to the myimaths website. Don't forget - you'll need to log on to access your task.

This week in Maths we have been recapping and developing our knowledge and understanding of shape.

Can you remember what the following words mean? Can you give a definition?

polygon

regular

irregular

side

vertex

vertices

parallel

quadrilateral

Have a go at the following to identify shapes by their properties:

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Drop Pins!

This week we have started our new learning theme, "Drop Pins". Through this theme we will be learning about landmarks and landforms.

Our key questions for this theme are:

•  What are the features of different places and how are these being protected for the future?
• How have natural disasters shaped the Earth?
• How do natural disasters affect people's lives? 

To start off our theme we began to investiate different landmarks, starting with some that we see regularly around our school. We had a year group quiz to see if we could recognise them all.

After that, we watched a clip of the seven ancient wonders of the world. Can you remember which of these still remains today? Next, each class took one of the new seven wonders (as well as the last remaining one) and investigated these different landmarks.

 Our "wonder" was Christ the Redeemer, a 38m tall statue that stands on Corcovado Mountain overlooking the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We enjoyed trying to make scale drawings of the statue, creating a model and researching answers to questions that we had asked about it.

 We had a really fun day and are excited about and ready for our new learning theme!

HOME LEARNING

Our Home Learning project has begun and is to be completed by Friday 12th October. Click on the image for details. 

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