Friday 15th February

French: - Ou habites-tu (Where do you live)?

-      J’habite a…(I live in…(+city/town/village)).

-      J’habite en…(I live in…(+country)).

-      Nous habitons a/en… (We live in…).

-      Venez a/en… (Come to…)!

-      L’Angleterre (England)

-      L’Ecosse (Scotland)

-      Le Pays de Galles (Wales)

-      La France (France)

-      L’Allemagne (Germany)

On Wednesday of this week we revised the above French phrases and then practiced them by playing a series of games in the hall. In one of the games we had to get into groups of 3 and 2 of us would sit facing the other 1 in our group. The 2 would then ask the 1 ‘Ou habites-tu (Where do you live)?’ and the 1 would reply with their choice of the 5 countries. For example, they might reply ‘J’habite en L’Allemagne (I live in Germany).’ and the 2 would then have to race to be the first to get to the mat with the German flag on it.

The second game was the same as this except everyone had to be in pairs as this time the reply to the question ‘Ou habites-tu?’ had to be ‘Nous habitons en… (We live in…).’

The final game involved us getting into groups, having one person selected out of our group to be taken to the corner of the hall where they would have to shut their eyes and the rest of the group would then have to move to a mat with a country flag on it. The group members positioned on the mat would then have to call out to their group member with their eyes shut ‘Venez en… (Come to…)’ followed by the French translation for the name of country whose flag they were standing near.

 

In today's maths lesson we played a game where each child got 3 dice. One dice (the 2-digit 9-sided dice) represented centimetres, another (the 1-digit 9-sided dice) represented metres and the last one (the 6-sided) represented kilometres.

We split the class in two and positioned each half at one end of the hall or the other. We then assigned one end of the hall as the side that the winners move to and the other end of the hall as the side that the losers move to.

The children then had to roll their 3 dice and work out who, between them and their partner, had the longest length. The child with the longest length moved to the winning side of the hall (or stayed at the winning side of the hall) and the loser moved to the losing side of the hall (or stayed where they were). The aim was to be positioned on the winning side of the hall by the end of the time.

We then adapted this into a team game by getting pairs to play against other pairs, adding what their partners rolled to what they rolled and comparing it to the other pairs’ length.

Our final adaption of the game was to turn it into a knock out game where two children were drawn against one another and the winner from each head to head progressed through to the next round.