This week Giraffe Class have been learning:

English

• We continued to look at the story ‘Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters’ by John Steptoe.
• We retold the story in our own words, using story language and expanded noun phrases.
• We planned our own traditional tales based on the story.
• We wrote and edited our own traditional tales with a clear beginning, middle and end.

Maths

• We looked at pictograms and interpreted the data that they show.
• We continued to focus on multiplication and using arrays to show our working.
• We solved a variety of maths problems involving addition and multiplication.

Topic

• We looked at the work of Angu Walters, an African artist.
• We created our own art work in the style of Angu Walters, using different shapes and patterns.
• We discussed and thought about different places that are special to us and the reasons why.

What an exciting week of learning Giraffes; well done!

Next week we are researching and writing our own reports comparing South Africa to the UK. We are also continuing to look at multiplication in maths.