In Rowan we have dedicated one lesson a week to make our Maths lessons active!

This is where we learn Maths through exercises and making sure we are not sitting in our chairs.

This week we have been recapping our times table. We practiced these with our cubes and then we got a ball, if we got the answer right the ball got passed to us and then it was our turn to throw it. We have been recapping our 2,3,4,5 and 10 times tables.

We absolutely loved this lesson! It was so much fun!

After we passed the ball, we put some times tables songs on and danced to them while singing the times table. Our dance moves were great!

PE

In PE we have been looking at something new! This term we will be learning how to play tennis. We had been practicing to catch the little tennis balls as well as learning how to balance them on our tennis rackets. This was a little tricky at first but we tried to get the hand of it.

Once we practiced balancing the tennis ball on the racket we had a relay in teams! It was super competitive.

Science

We also had a very interesting Science lesson, in Science we have been learning about different habitats and we have been talking about the different habitats that animals live in. We decided that we were going to go on an adventure around our school premises to see if we could see any animals in their habitats. We had magnifying glass to help us if we saw any little insects.

The children loved looking at things through the magnifying glass.

We decided that it was a little too cold for the animals to come out so we are going to try again at the end of this term to see if we can find anymore however we did find these two. We think they were baby slugs.

We went on a VERY exciting trip here in Rowan Class to Tynemouth Aquarium.

The bus trip was a little long on the way there however Rowan class kept themselves entertained by singing some lovely songs together.

Once we arrived we got checked in and we then started to look around. There were so many different animals and creatures. Some were very bright and some were dark colours. We absolutely loved looking at all the different types of fish and water animals.

At 11 o’clock we were very lucky to be able to have a talk about different animals and fish that live in the sea. We got to have a look at two different star fish. These both were different colours and felt different. We found out that star fish have 5 eyes on each leg and if they loose a leg it can take up to 1 year to grow back. WE WERE AMAZEDDDDD.

Some of our children were brave and had a feel.

We had to be very gentle.

The children done all of the photography on this trip! Didn’t they do amazing.

At the end there was a HUGE tank with loads of fish and even SHARKS!!

We had the best day. We even got a little treat at the shop in the end.

Rowan class have been creating pictures using a paint app, then recreating the image using real paint and paintbrushes.

Some of us thought that real painting was easier than using technology.

We quickly realised that if we made a mistake with the paint we could not ‘undo’ our mistake easily.

We liked it when we could use tools to change colours and effects easily on the paint programme.

We think that the children have done an amazing job!

Another busy week in Rowan Class, some of our festivities have begun! We have been practicing for our Nativity Story as well as our Croft Christmas Talent. This has been so lovely to watch and we can’t wait for all the parents to come in and see your children.

In PE we had been trying out and attack and defend game. This including one team trying to ‘attack’ and get the ball to hit the cone in the middle and the other team to defend the cone and to try and get the ball. Some of us found this a little tricky but it is something we will be continuing to practice.

In computing we have been on paint and created a picture, we are then going to try and recreate the picture using paint to see how similar it looks. We will be comparing the technology to the painting.

Look how amazing the pictures are! Well done Rowan Class