In Maths this week, Robins have been comparing and calculating amounts of money.
Recap the learning below.
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Adding Money
Digital Media
In Art, Robins have been learning about Joe Cornish, a landscape photographer and Ansel Adams.
Today, they learnt about how to use an iPad to capture images. Mr Lo mentioned about focus, brightness and how to use the zoom. He also showed how to ensure the device is held properly to avoid shake.
After taking the photos, Robins learnt how to transfer the photos onto our school shared area wirelessly.
Next week, we look forward to editing them in the style of Joe Cornish or Ansel Adams.
Mountain Formations
In Geography, Robins carried out activities to help them understand the various kinds of mountain formations.
This included:
Pushing materials together to make a fold mountain. (Fold mountains are created where two or more of Earth’s tectonic plates are pushed together)
Pushing Chocolate Krispies together to observe what happens; just like a fault block mountain. Fault-block mountains are formed by the movement of large crustal blocks when forces in the Earth’s crust pull it apart. Some parts of the Earth are pushed upward and others collapse down.
Finally, Robins researched more information about them and created their own booklet guide to mountain formations.
Share and tell – circle time
During circle time Max shared a letter he wrote about the importance of the environment.(persuasive letter) He also shared a poster (Information text). Both have made use of skills learnt in English.
Max
As Part of PHSE and circle time- Mr Lo gave Robins a challenge to prove they could work together. Many thought it would be easy but found it more difficult. The task was to think of a move in your group and then perform the move in-sync with the others in your group. This presented many challenges including
- What to do when you all come up with different moves?
- Who should we follow? Can we follow them? How can we ensure our move is also synchronised to the music?
- Can we work together to synchronise without conflict?
Take a sneak peak below!
Classification of living things (Taxonomy)
Robins have been learning that over 300 years ago, a Swedish scientist created a system for grouping living things, called classification or taxonomy.
Watch the video to recap.
Some then went outside with Mr Crooks to look for living things in the woodland walk. What have they found?
Putting skills to the test!
Eason enjoyed the lesson on shading.
At home he decided to put his new skills into action and luck at the result!
Quelle est la date?
Savez-vous comment écrire les mois de l’année?
Understanding Shading Techniques.
Continuing with pencil drawing skill development. This week, Robins had a ago at different shading techniques.
Finally, we also studied the artist. Joe Cornish. We look forward to taking our own digital art next week!
Athletics competition at Kings Heath Boys School
11 Rocking Robins went with Mr Gill and Mr Crooks to take part in an athletics competition against 5 other schools. The events were 30m, 50m, 300m, 600m, 4x50m relay, 4x50m hurdles relay, tennis ball throw and standing long jump. We finished 5th but were only a point off 4th and four points off 3rd. The children enjoyed the experience and represented the school well.
Money, Money , Money
This week in Maths we reviewed and explored our knowledge of money!
We looked at British currency and reminded ourselves of how many pence are in a pound.
