Everyone is so delighted to be back in school and to be among their friends! We have had such a fun week and we have got up to a lot since coming back to school. We cannot wait to show you all that we have been up to in our wonderful school building 🙂
First up: St. Patrick’s Day
We celebrated St. Patrick’s Day by learning about our Patron Saint of Ireland and our beautiful island. We did a general knowledge quiz on Ireland and we learnt a lot! We then decided to make some shamrocks to decorate our classroom. Have a look at them below.
Secondly, as it is now Spring, we wanted to get some art up to represent the season we are now in. Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring! We decided to do a collaborative piece on birds in a tree. We used oil pastels for this and learnt how to blend them together. Have a look at our finished piece. Aren’t 5th class such talented artists?!
Thirdly, we made some optical art cubes. Optical art is a style of visual art that uses optical illusions. I’m getting dizzy just looking at them!
As we were feeling great to be back in school, we decided to make a motivational wall that is full of quotes to inspire us and others as well. We put it up in our entrance way so we can read the inspiring words every morning as we arrive to school. We hope they inspire you too!
We also had a super busy week reading aloud our fantastic novels! We wrote these before the Christmas break, but never managed to draw a cover for our stories. Our stories are now bound and hanging proudly on our wall. We LOVED listening to each other’s stories. We have some amazing story-tellers in 5th class!
In 5th class, we decided to refresh our memories on some math topics we completed a while ago. One of these topics was perimeter and area. We had such fun being archaeologists for the day, measuring the size of each excavation plot. We even decided to find the area and perimeter of each letter in our own name. Have a look at some of our work below!
Last, but not least, we celebrated World Down Syndrome Day by wearing odd socks and we also made ourselves more aware. We learnt about some of the perceptions linked with Down Syndrome, while also reading a story about a boy with Down Syndrome written by his sister. We really did learn a lot! We then made our own pair of odd socks and wrote about what makes each one of us unique.
We hope you enjoyed having a look at all we have been busy doing this past week. Thanks for reading!
