Leap Frog- Writing text for a book

This week we have been sentences to go with pictures in a book called 'Leap Frog' that had no words. We could do a made up story or a description.

We found it challenging trying to think of our own text to fit in with the pictures. It was important  for us to include adjectives and interesting sentences. Some of us added detail to our sentences by using conjunctions to add more. A challenge for us was to use a hook or onomatopoeia to include sound effects.

Here are some of our books. Some of them were made using Google Slides and some were made using Explain Everything.
Can you give us some feedback?



By Mikayla

By Sophia

By Lukus

By Akeilah

By Eligh

By Olly

By Eli J

By Briana

By Tyrese

By Taylor

P.E- Balance and Stability

This term for P.E we are focusing on learning about body awareness and specifically learning about balance and stability.

We have learned a game called 'Cone Piles'.
The rules are:
1. you have to stand on your spot (on one foot)
2. try and stack as many cones as you can without falling and racing against your buddy
3. Then you swap with the person behind you and they have to unstack the cones while balancing on one foot too!

We find it difficult to stay steady on our spot- especially when the cones are out of reach or stuck together tightly. We challenge ourselves even more by trying to only use one hand!

To help us stay steady and balanced (without falling), we have learned some tricks.
You can:
- hold your arms out
- stare at a spot on the ground that isn't moving
- do deep breathing
- move your body weight over the part of your body holding you up
- put your hands on your hips
and even poke your tongue out or hold your ears!!!

What balance activities do you know of? What balance tricks do you know?

Play- Challenge yourself and have a go!

One of our school People Powers is 'Play'. We have been learning about showing 'Play' through challenging ourselves and having a go.

In one of our Power Time lessons we had lots of balloon challenges that our teachers set for us and we used collaboration to get the balloons from one side of the room to the other (without them touching the ground).

We also sat in a circle and challenged ourselves to pass a ballon around the circle in different ways. We found it easiest to pass it around with our elbows because we had more control, but hardest to use our chins because our chins and necks weren't big enough to hold onto the balloon.

We definitely had lots of fun learning about showing 'Play' by challenging ourselves and having a go! We try hard to show 'Play' in our learning as well. 

When do you challenge yourself?