Performance Poetry and Painting

This week we have started a few new mini topics/units as we have finished discussions and looking at the geographical points of Madagascar. In English we have started poetry and the children were tasked with performing a poem to the rest of the class. The children were split into groups and had two lessons to prepare and perform. These turned out really well, we have a lot of potential drama students in the class....

We have continued our work on fractions in maths and have started looking at adding fractions. We will complete a hot task for fractions next week.

During theme we have been preparing to create an art piece centered around the baobab tree from Madagascar. The children have already practiced different artistic mediums (such as water colours, pencils and pastels) and have sketched the tree ready for the final piece next week. This is what we are attempting to replicate....