Today in Science we have been testing the absorbency of different types of paper. Some children stretched paper over a cup, counted the number of drops placed on the paper until it leaked through. Some children hung strips of paper into a cup for 3 minutes to see how far up the paper the water […]
In Science today we have made bug hotels. We designed bug hotels thinking about different ways to make holes and hiding places, natural materials we wanted to find and use and how to make it warm and sheltered for the bugs. Thanks to those who provided the plastic bottles and cardboard boxes.
In English we have been writing a newspaper report about The Great Fire of London. Using our knowledge of the great fire we planned our ideas including a headline, facts and a quote from Samuel Pepys. Our planning sheets helped us to create a piece of writing based on real events. Happy half term!
This term in PE we are doing gymnastics. We have been learning different shapes, balances, rolls and jumps and putting them together to make a sequence. Here are some photos from our sequences on Thursday.
In English we have been looking at the book The Dragon Machine. We used musical instruments to recreate the different noises the dragon machine makes – ticking, clattering, banging, clicking, whirring, rattling, clunking and crashing.
In art today we have been learning how to create tints, tones and shades with paint. To create a tint we added white paint, to create a tone we added grey paint and to create shades we added black paint.
To start our new topic, Fire and Ice, we had a surprise visit from West Midlands Fire Service yesterday. The firefighters discussed all of the equipment on the fire engine and what it is used for. We all had the chance to sit in the fire engine, use the hose and hear the siren! Here […]
On Monday we were excited to see the the egg that had been left in our classroom had hatched open. Inside we found a poem book called Tell Me A Dragon. We have enjoyed listening to the poems, working in groups to learn and add actions to the poems and imitating the poems to create […]
When we came into school this morning we were surprised to find an egg and nest in our classroom. We have lots of different opinions and ideas as to where the egg has come from and how it ended up in our class. Many children think it has been left by a dinosaur or dragon […]