Our week started with our weekly, calming yoga lesson. After warming up with the various postures of the ‘sun sequence’, the pupils performed new postures, such as the eagle and the butterfly. The session ended with the calming powers of the ‘rainstick’ and the ‘ladybird relaxation’ games.
After our yoga lesson, we were ready to listen and work hard. This was our second week which was full of Greek myths. In our English lessons, children had the opportunity to summarise the myth of King Midas using the SWBST method and write a diary entry full of powerful feelings and thoughts, inspired by the same myth. They also had the opportunity to compare two well-known myths and discuss the similarities and differences between them.
Through the myths, children gained so much knowledge about the religion of ancient Greeks. It was time to gain knowledge about the different types of government of the city states in ancient Greece, such as monarchy, oligarchy and democracy. Working in groups in their History lesson, the children sorted statements in advantages and disadvantages of two types of government. Which system of government do you think children found: monarchy, oligarchy or democracy? Interesting discussions took place, while children were debating and sharing their ideas and thoughts.
In Art, the children mixed the primary colours to create the secondary colours and then worked on creating tints meaning lighter variations of a single colour, by adding white to a base colour. The children are now ready to develop their ideas for an abstract work of art inspired by Kandinsky.
Time to be active again! On Tuesday, through various games and mini matches, children worked on sending and receiving under pressure. Children practised passing when there was a clear passing option and working on different ways to communicate with their team members, before passing the ball. At the end of the lesson, children reflected and shared how it felt being under pressure and what strategies they used to cope well.
Our week ended with very interesting science lessons. In science this week, year 4 have become nature detectives through understanding and creating their own classification keys. The children looked carefully at the features of different leaves and flowers found within our school grounds and focused hard on creating closed questions to identify each one. We were rather impressed by their varied questions and how they incorporated their prior learning on evergreen and deciduous trees. Impressive work!
Year 5 children explored the life cycles of some mammals using secondary sources; they learnt that humans are classed as mammals and that mammals are warm-blooded vertebrates, have fur or hair on their bodies, give birth to live young and have mammary glands to produce milk to feed their young. At the end of the lesson, children could explain what monotremes are and give examples as well as discuss the life cycles of specific mammals.
Thank you all for coming to our Learning Together Morning. You made our ERIC session such a wonderful, educational experience. Mrs Sassis was definitely impressed with your ideas and thoughts, which were given by your children.
