The Butterfly Lion!

Class 3 have been learning about the fantastic book by Michael Morpurgo - it's called The Butterfly Lion. Last week we made arguments. We wrote down extracts from the book to act out the best dramatic argument.The argument  involved  Bertie, the main character, and his cold father. They disagreed about keeping the white lion cub who Bertie greatly adores.

In the book Bertie lives in Africa and he has a white lion cub. After his dad killed the lioness he wanted to  keep him. The lion cub is surrounded by hyenas with no protection but luckily Bertie saves the white lion cub with great courage. However Bertie gets sent to boarding school in England so Bertie cannot keep the lion and the white lion is sent to a circus in France.

       

Here is some of the work we have done...

Why don't you read the book to find out more!

Japan Day

Today, in honour of 'Kensuke's Kingdom', we had a day celebrating Japan.

We started the day making sushi and origami and then tried our hand at writing Haikus.

During the day we talked about all things Japanese, including sumo wrestlers. Mrs Andrew gave us a demonstration....

Here we are practising sounding out syllables for our Haiku poems:

and here is the lunchtime origami session...

In the afternoon the children learnt about the Japanese artist Hokusai and drew a wave.

Then we had watched a Studio Ghibli film, Totoro, directed by the famous Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki.

What an enjoyable day - and we only touched the tip of the iceberg; Japan is such an interesting place with such a rich culture.

Here is the display about Japan and 'Kensuke's Kingdom' you can see in the main corridor at school:

 

Roman Britain - Boudicca, villas and mosaics

We have continued our investigations into the Romans and their occupation of Britain. 

We found out about Boudicca who was the leader of the Iceni tribe. She was based near Thetford. She was a very fierce, brave woman who fought the Romans.

We also looked at how the Romans lived and made models of the type of houses, or villas, they built in Britain. Here are some examples of our work...

The Romans decorated their floors with beautiful mosaics and we have also been having a go at making some ourselves.

We planned the patterns in our topic books first and then made them using glass tiles. We'll be grouting them soon.

Aren't they gorgeous?

Which is your favourite pattern?