Moon class

  Our Geography topic this half-term has been mountains. We used play dough to create mountains and then labelled the different parts.

  In PSHE, we had the learning objective: 'To consider future jobs and careers'. The children firstly completed a quiz which told them what jobs they may like based on their answers to various questions. We then compared these jobs to what we actually would like to do in the future and discussed what skills we thought we would need. Everybody then had 5 minutes of research time before we began our interviews. The children had a checklist of what makes a good interviewee, including good eye contact, manners and answering questions in detail. We then paired up and had our interviews. Moon class took these interviews very seriously, and most children got the job :) 

  In DT, we are working on our own spanish inspired pizza. We have tried different toppings and decided what we do (or definitely don't!) want to use on our final version, considered who we are making the pizza for, discussed different allergies and drawn up our final design. Yesterday, the children had a go at marketing their own pizza brand, which began with making our own logos. They used canva to play around with text and images to come up with their own designs.

 In Writing, we are creating instructions on how to catch a monster. To help the children generate ideas, they were given a picture of a monster and a location. In groups, they had to act out how they would prepare and catch the monster. The children considered what they would need, what order they would carry out the instructions and how they would do it successfully. We finished with a performance from some of our groups, which we were all very impressed with!

  Recently, we have had a focus of Oracy in our classroom. We decided to combine this with Commando Joe and challenged ourselves to give clear and concise instructions to successfully complete an obstacle course - blindfolded! The children had to make sure they used their oracy skills to direct their partner around the course, safely and in the correct order. The children had to dribble a football, jump hurdles, throw a ball into a hoop, walk along the benches, army crawl and finally complete the hoops. All of the children were able to communicate effectively and help their friends around the course. We had a great time seeing how fast we could make our way to the end and lots of laughs in the process. Myself, Miss Jackson and Miss Jones are really proud of how everybody communicated with one another and worked as part of a team :)