It has already been a very busy term. We started swimming on Fridays in week one and are loving our time at the pool as part of our PE for this term.

In mathematics we are enjoying our exploration of mass and capacity. This has included us doing interesting things like weighing many things in the class room on our balance scales to see which is heavier. Some things were surprisingly heavy considering their size and weighed more than bigger things. It is also very interesting to visit the sandpit and explore how many different sized containers of sand we needed to fill bigger containers. After about 12 full spoons of sand barely covering the bottom of a bucket, we decided that a milo tin might be better to fill it with, we were glad we swapped as it took 22 milo tins to fill it. We then checked and it took 18 spoons of sand to fill the milo tin. You can work out how many spoons it would have taken to fill that bucket, we did and it was a lot!

We have been hard at work learning how to write an information text in English. To help us with that we have continued to explore information texts during shared reading and have learned some more amazing things about animals. For instance, did you know that female brown bears give birth while they are sleeping during their hibernation time? We also had a fantastic time visiting Wildlife HQ to see some of these animals and took photos to use in our texts. Then the year 5 and 6 students had a lot of fun camping at school and if they tell you Miss Jo snores, it is absolutely not true!