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Our Week  In our topic Marvellous Machines, we have been exploring how different  machines work and their uses. In the lesson, 'Speak up!', we  made our own machines to speak and listen to one another.   We discovered that the sound travels through the vibration of the string and we could hear what was being said through the cone of the cup. Maths During maths, we pretended to ride our bikes around the class and parked our cars in the garage to explore '1 more '. Literacy In literacy, Bears have been continuing their 'space' journey, following the adventures of little girl called Rocket in the book, Look Up.  We were given a special space mission by NASA to pack a bag and to put a cat in a pet box! We were getting ready for a journey into space. We used our phonic sounds and blending to follow the instructions. Clubbercise The Bears, and Mrs Halford! had lots of fun in our Clubbercise session. We had great fun dancing to the music and waving our glow sticks!

  Children In Need  Today our sports ambassadors led the Work It Out with Joe Wicks session as part of Children In need. We all joined Joe live online and the sports ambassadors gave us a warm up, encouraged and guided us through the workout. Terrific Tablets   Bears have been exploring tablets and ipads. We talked about how we use tablets or smartphones at home. Looked at the tablet's features, including the power button, camera and the apps available for the us to use.  We then used our tablets to take photos, play games and read online. We also played an online jigsaw game. We then talked about if we had to make a game online, what would be in the game. We had many ideas from a racing car game to a pony running and you have to ride it! Keeping Safe Online   Bears have been learning about how to keep safe online. We shared the story  Chicken Clicking  by Jeanne Willis.  The story explored the theme of online safety and Bears talked about how and  when we use online techno

 Our Week In maths, we have been exploring 3D shapes, which shapes roll and which shapes stack.  We discovered that shapes need be curved to roll and have a flat face to stack. The drum was a cylinder and could roll. In literacy we have started reading 'Look Up', a story all about a young girl who dreams of becoming an astronaut!  We read how Rocket was inspired by Mae Jemison, the first African -American woman in space. Bears didn't think it was fair that African-American people were stopped from following their dreams. We spotted our phonics sounds through our telescope. We then shared, what we dreamed of doing in the future, from becoming an artist to being an ice cream seller. We also counted down as we watched the astronauts take off in the space shuttle and wondered what it would be like to be in space. We then practiced our 'mark making', drawing our space rockets with chalks and pretending to be rockets flying into space.  In our topic Marvellous Machines, w