Holly Hill Primary and Nursery School
Spring 2
This half term we are learning....
This half term's spellings:
28.03.24The finished cave!
28.03.24 How amazing are these Easter Bonnets!!! Can you guess who the winner is?
28.03.24 Our final Art lesson for this topic and we worked in tribes to make our cave paintings!
22.03.24 In Art, we created a wash with water colours and then used a template to make a negative hand print.
18.03.24 - today we became insect experts. 🐞 🕷️ 🪱 🦋 🐜 🐝
15.03.24 We explored creating tints, shades and tones when mixing paint. The range of browns will help mimic the natural colours used in cave paintings. 🧑🎨
15.03.24 For morning work today, we continued our sketches of the anatomy of a woolly mammoth. ✏️
14.03.24 Alex and Ralph were so inspired by our archaeology lesson, that they carved some microliths over lunchtime! 🤩
14.03.24 In History, we became archaeologists and excavated so me stone tools, deciding whether they would be from the Palaeolithic or Mesolithic period of prehistory.
🗣️‘It could be from the Mesolithic’
🗣️’It doesn’t really have a barbed edge.’
14.03.24 In Maths, we used Numicon to demonstrate how to subtract a fraction from a whole number. 🤓
13.04.24 To celebrate British Science Week year 3/4 had a Science day today. Our activities were all related to ‘time’. ⏰
Session 3- With Miss Ward Falcons created their own bug hotels, over time we will explore which creatures have come for a visit! 🌳 🐜
Science Day with Mrs Ward: The theme this year was time, so we linked it to our Jigsaw learning about being healthy and exercise, and had timed activities on a circuit. We had to estimate how many we'd get done in a certain amount of time. Then we measured our pulse in a minute half way through and at the end. We found that we under estimated how many we could do in the time given. ⏲️⌛️
12.03.24 subtracting mixed fractions today. 🧮
11.03.24 some great writing this week from our oracy lessons - writing from a different characters point of view. 🖊️
WORLD BOOK DAY 07.03.24
07.03.24 We started the day with a COSTUME CATWALK! They were challenged to walk in character, so any grumpy faces are all part of the act!
WBD session 1: Falcon began with Mrs Cordon and MC Grammar! We listened to the World Book Day song and highlighted the books mentioned. We then created the reading journey by putting the books covers in order. Finally, we played ‘musical books’, where we got chance to move around and read the books we heard about. It was amazing! 📕📗📘📙
WBD session 3- With Miss Ward we explored different comics and then created our own!! 👽 🍩
6.3.24 Using our imaginations this afternoon in RE. 🌸 We listened to ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’ and then used painting to expressed how it made us feel. 🖼️
5.3.24 Working together to talk about what we have read in ‘Stone Age Boy’ 👦
5.03.24 Great work by Carson and Miller in English today! 🖊️
01.03.24 How artistic are these sketchbooks looking!? Today we experimented with different types of line and pencil grades to practise shading ✏️
01.03.24 Falcon class are making such great progress in times tables and have found the flash cards particularly useful 🤗
29.02.24 In Hisory we looked at the chronology of prehistoric Britain and some of the changes that took place. (Have you ever heard of Doggerland?!)
29.02.24 Today Falcon class created a best version of their Stone Age poem for their Wow Write books all about life in The Stone Age🤩
28.02.24 Working as a team to create the funniest potato in JIGSAW. 🧩
27.02.24 One child in Falcon asked “How do you know if a living thing is an insect?” So we all enjoyed looking at a wasp (dead) through a magnifying glass to identify the different parts of an insects.
27.02.24 Following on from last week’s Science lesson, we sorted the living things into a variety of groups. 🧬 🐞🐝🦋
26.02.24 A great start to the week with tennis out on the playground 🎾
23.02.24 In Art, we looked at 40,000 year old statute, Lion Man, and presented our learning in sketchbooks. It’s fabulous to see all the different layouts 🤩
23.02.24 In SPAG, we added actions to the direct speech song, to help us remember the rules in our writing 💁♂️🙆♂️🙅♂️🙋♂️🤷♂️
22.02.34 Falcons LOVE fractions! They couldn’t be stopped when writing numberlines of mixed numbers!
22.02.24 In History, we used an interactive timeline to see how long ago the Stone Age was; our minds were blown!🤯
22.02.24 In English, we worked in pairs to act out the scene from or class text where a modern child meets a Stone Age child.
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22.02.24 In French, Falcon wowed Mrs Cordon with their ability to read the name of an animal in English, then correctly write it in a French! 🇫🇷
20.02.24 A great start to Science this half term - bug hunting in Whispers Woods. We found some great mini beasts. 🐞 🕷️ 🐛 🪱
