The United Kingdom... "Where's that? I've never been there!"

We have all been working really hard this week on our topic 'Home and Away'. When we started learning about the United Kingdom, some people were really excited because they had never been there! Once we realised we have all there because we live in England we were able to think about some of the things we already knew about too, and share our knowledge with our friends.

We worked together and looked at fact sheets, atlases and information books about the four different countries and we then set about making our own group information posters. Have a look at some the facts we found out about here...

In English, we have really enjoyed reading stories from other cultures. We read Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain and worked in small groups to retell the story. This week we have learnt two new words; nouns and adjectives. We have been searching for these words in our books and trying to remember some good ones that we could use in our own writing! When you're reading at home this weekend you could have a look for some more adjectives and maybe even start your own 'wow word' book! 

We added our story retellings to our world map display and linked it to Kenya, the country where it was written. We also read Handa's Hen which was also written in Kenya! We loved this story too!

I have really enjoyed our first week back at school, thank you to everyone for coming back to school all ready to learn again. See you next week! 

Miss Burge