Amazon Class have enjoyed being immersed in their topic this term- ‘African Adventures’. So far, we have explored the 52 countries that make up the continent of Africa, with a particular focus on Kenya.

We have been locating different features of Africa such as; Victoria Falls, the River Nile and the pyramids of Egypt.

We ventured off on a virtual tour of the African Savanna, learning about the Big 5 and the grassy, arid landscape.

We welcomed Mrs Moules into class to share photographs and treasured items from her time spent in Kenya and Uganda. This was such a valuable way for the children to hear about firsthand experience of rural village schools, accommodation, foods and traditions. The children were amazed by how different school life can be in rural Africa, with some children walking for over an hour to reach their school with no windows and little resources.

We have been in awe of the beautifully vibrant colours within African art. The children have recreated Ndebele artwork, watercoloured Sahara landscapes and after learning about why African women carry heavy baskets on their heads, using line art and pattern to interpret their learning. The children are looking forward to our final unit in art this term- creating African pottery.

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This term we have been learning about different writing techniques to add to our writer's toolkits. We have learnt about the use of alliteration, noun phrases and different sentence types. 
 

We've also been learning about a fascinating animal- the penguin. To bring all of our super learning together this term, we decided to write penguin fact files, using all of the writing techniques we have learnt this term and in previous terms. 
 

Here we share some examples of our writing.

The children loved welcoming their grown ups to Stay and Read this afternoon. We started by exploring four new words; peril, cunning, anxious, and emerged. We then shared the story 'Penguin in Peril' by Helen Hancocks, looking for this new vocabulary as we read. We practised reading like storytellers and during our 'Time to Talk' we discussed our initial reactions to this super story.

This book then inspired us to create our own 'Missing!' posters. We showed of new skills learnt this term to our grown-ups, using alliteration, different sentence types and our new vocabulary in our writing. Word mats, word lucky dips and word cubes helped our grown-ups to learn some new vocabulary too!

We finished the afternoon with another story written by the same author- William and the Missing Masterpiece.

Tomorrow we shall display our posters around the school in the hope that someone may be able to help us find the missing penguin!

Thank you to our grown-ups for joining us in class this afternoon- we loved sharing our learning with you.