We finished stitching and embellishing our artwork this week. Our designs were inspired by the shapes and patterns that we had spotted in examples of Gujarati patchwork. Mrs Heath was very impressed with our work!

We have been studying Gujarati patchwork in our art lessons and from what we have seen we have developed some designs of our own. Over the last few days we have been finalising our designs and making patterns to follow. Today we started to sew our finished pieces together…..we can’t wait to see how they look when they are finished!

Today we were very excited to have a Bollywood dance teacher working with us. The morning started with a dance workshop where we learnt not only the moves to a dance but also the symbolism of each of the moves. We then went on to find out how to wear a Sari, how to count to 10 in Hindi and what it is like in a Hindu Temple. I was very impressed with the information that the children shared during their discussions, that they had recalled from our topic work in class. What a fabulous morning – well done Dragonflies and thank you so much to Reena from Bollywood Dreams Dance Academy!

We have been focusing on independently proof-reading our writing this week in our English lessons. We needed to make sure that our sentences were punctuated correctly and use dictionaries to help us to correct our spellings.

We have been enjoying our Tag Rugby sessions with Bees this half term. This week we had fun playing games which developed our passing skills.

We have been exploring stop-frame animation this term using the i-motion app. It has been great fun developing our animations, which we based on a traditional story from India. We were very surprised at how many photographs we needed to take to make the characters look like they were moving effectively!

Over the past couple of months we have been developing the reading areas in our classroom. In discussion with the children, the books have been re-organised and four quiet areas have  been established with new lighting, cosy rugs and cushions. The children have been enjoying sharing books with their friends and taking responsibility for keeping the areas clean and tidy.

This week Mrs Heath challenged us with a giant class quiz! We worked with partners, searching the classroom to find the answers to the questions.

We are making great progress in running the length of the River Ganges and today ran our last class run of the half term!

This week we have worked hard in Maths developing our understanding of metres, centimetres and millimetres. We have also started to explore the iMotion app in Computing and over the next week will go on to develop our own stop-frame animations.

This week we have enjoyed finding out about the national bird (peacock), the national animal (tiger) and the national flower (lotus) of India!