Basketball – Session 2

This week’s lesson started with us recapping on the dribbling skills we had learned two weeks ago.

This week, we learned how to do the following:

• Blocking an opponent by turning our backs to them

• Blocking an opponent by dribbling the ball to the side

• Dribbling the ball to a jump stop

• Dribbling to a jump stop and the shooting at the basket hoop

We had to make sure our fingers were flexible to throw the ball. When we jumped to shoot the ball at the hoop, we had to take the power from the jump to help us.

We all enjoyed learning new basketball skills, even though we found dribbling the ball to a jump stop difficult.

Creating a Clay Dragon

We have had an amazing time making our clay dragons with Louise. We used lots of utensils to create a range of effects on our dragons. Some of us made 3D dragons and some of us made square shaped pots with dragons wrapped around them. We will have our clay dragons back in approximately two weeks, after they have been fired in the kiln.
Here are some photographs of us creating our clay models and holding our final creations.

 

Information Text – Komodo Dragons

This week we have been writing an information text (non-chronological report) on komodo dragons. We worked in pairs to write the paragraphs but decided independently how to present our work.

Here are some examples.

In the Library

Today, Neptune Class worked in the library because our classroom was being used for our clay work. We worked in small groups and we were able to use the new furniture. Some of us thought it was great working in the library because there was a lot of room, but others found it noisy at times. Overall, we thought it was a great place to be able to work!

Greenie Time Fun

During our Greenie Time, we get to chose what ever we want to do. This week, Mrs Hughes brought in lots of costumes for us to wear. We had lots of fun trying on different combinations of costumes. There were hats, dresses (even some of the boys wore these), Superhero outfits, scarves, animal costume and lots more.

Look at the fun we had!

Great Musicians in the Making!

We have had lots of fun composing our on melodies using the pentatonic scale. Listen to us play our compositions of 7 notes

Art – Creating Dragon Scales

Art – Creating Dragon Scales

In Art we were making dragon scales with different materials. Some were

sparkly,rough and soft. We could cut the materials into any kind of shape that

looks like proper dragon scales [some we couldnt cut].

Dragon Dancing

In PE we have been creating sequences of dance moves to represent dragons.

Features of a Non-chronological Report

Next week we are going to be writing a non-chronological report about komodo dragons. In preparation for the writing task, we looked at a range of information texts and drew out the key features.

The most common features were:

• Big, bold title
• Paragraphs
• Subheadings
• Facts/fact boxes
• Pictures / photographs
• Captions
• Labels
• Diagrams

We used Post-it Notes and stuck them on examples we found in a range of texts.

Maths – How Many Numbers?

The children were given the following numbers and were asked to find as many 3 digit numbers as they could.

Most children found all combinations of numbers, some using a systematic way.

Here are some examples: