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The Fire of London 1666
 

This week we have combined history and literacy to learn about the fire of London in 1666. We are using a Magic
Grandad CD Rom to take us back in time.

So far we have found out:
 
What London was like in 1666.                                                   How the houses were different.
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Thomas Faryner was a baker in Pudding Lane.                 How the fire started and why it spread so quickly.
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Next week we will be comparing the fire brigade in 1666 to that of today, learning about Samuel Pepys, and finding out what changes were made in London after the fire.
 

World Book Day

On Thursday we celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as our favourite characters from books. Take a look at us in the presentation below:

 

Fun on the apparatus

This   week   in   PE  we  had  fun  on  the apparatus.  We had  to bend our legs and put our arms up to finish when jumping off  the  box. On the climbing frame we practised making shapes.  We used our arms to help us balance on the upside-down bench. On  the mats we learnt how to do different rolls.

By  Evie  and  Oliver.
 

The feeding of the five thousand

This week we have been learning about Jesus. We heard a story about how many people were following Jesus so that they could hear him speak. Everyone was getting hungry because it was lunchtime, but nobody had any food to eat. There was a boy who had  five loaves of bread and two fishes but that wasn't enough to go around. Jesus told the people to pass around the food anyway, and miraculously there was enough food for everybody. After we heard this story, we coloured in a basket, two fish and five loaves of bread and then we cut them out.
 

Space

Over the last couple of weeks we have been exploring the theme of space within literacy.

We started by finding out factual information about Neil Armstrong, and watching a clip of him landing on the moon! We then wrote some factual sentences, each starting with a bullet point.

Through re-telling a space dream story, we have practised writing in clear sentences, with each one starting with a capital letter and ending with a full stop. Then we wrote our own space story!

Finally we have written our own space countdown poems. We had to think of different describing words. Here is Kelly's poem:

       I went into space one day,
       Everything there came out to play.
       There were:
          10 twinkling stars
            9 brave astronauts
            8 mean aliens
            7 huge flying saucers
            6 sparkly shooting stars
            5 floating asteroids
            4 strange galaxy's
            3 yellow planets
            2 dangerous booster rockets
            1 shining sun.

We will be finishing off our space work next week by describing aliens and making space rockets!


 
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