Cashmere class

2021 -2022

Term 4

Term 3

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This term, we started our topic of the rainforest. We learnt about where in the world tropical rainforests are located and the difference between the climate there and in the UK. In one of our lessons we found out about how the tribes of the rainforest live, made our own version of a yanos (a communal circular house), tried sleeping on the floor and made replica clothes using crepe paper. Our art this term linked to the rainforest as we studied two artists, Henri Rousseau and John Dyer (who we are later this year having a zoom draw-a-long with) and then created our own rainforest painting using layering techniques. We looked at the book Jumanji in our English lessons, then created our own adventure board games for which we wrote detailed instructions on how to play. To start our maths work on fractions, we were very lucky that Dominos donated us 5 free pizzas. We used these to visualise: numerators and denominators, adding/subtracting fractions and equivalent fractions -  of course, the most exciting part was getting to eat their one tenth of a pizza at the end! There was also the buzz of getting our own eggs to hatch, we named our class’ chick Nugget Karen Cashmere (as voted by the children), and they loved getting to hold them once they had got large enough! 

Term 1

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We started off our term with a fantastic Kic theatre session with Ian, based on our book – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The children took on the roles of the golden ticket winners (we had some great impressions of Veruca Salt) then acted out travelling down the chocolate river and visiting different rooms of the factory. To finish our book, we wrote instructions on how to make chocolate lollipops which of course we then had to have a go at making! We learned about teeth and digestion in Science and used play dough to make our own models of our teeth. For our end to our topic about Ashford, we thought about what is important to a town then designed our own using Lego to show where our buildings would go.  We finished off the term with our mindfulness afternoon where we played name that tune, everyone was super focused on helping their team and listened incredibly well to all the songs.