Significant people and outer space
Year 1 and 2
Year 1/2 had a dress up day this week. The challenge was to dress up as a significant individual and come prepared to share 5 facts about that individual. Some children chose someone from history, past and present and other children chose a family member. We had Florence Nightingale, William Shepherd, Neil Armstrong, Rosa Parks and Archimedes to name a few. The children were great at presenting their facts and very had clearly done a lot of research. Their historical knowledge and ability to recall facts about significant people from history has really improved during this topic. We are looking forward to seeing if they can now argue who they believe is the most significant individual drawing on all this knowledge they have acquired.
Year 3 and 4
The children in Year 3 and 4 have been exploring the Shakespeare play, The Tempest, in writing this week. They have been creating cartoon strips of the story and freeze framing a snapshot from a scene. After getting to know Prospero, the main character, the children have used their understanding of his character to write a message in a bottle to describe what he is like.
In maths, we have been learning about parallel and perpendicular lines - we enjoyed making different examples of these lines using art straws.
Oak Class - Our Solar System Blog
This week in science we have been learning about the Solar System. We are never going to forget this!
We had some fruit, raspberry, peppercorn blueberry, cherry, tomato, watermelon, grapefruit lime and apple, we had children hold the fruit, and the toilet paper. 1 piece of paper was 16,000,000 km.
Comments from the children about the lesson!
It was fun although some of the fruit got a little squished
I would really like to do something like this again and this time get to eat some of the fruit
We lost the peppercorn but we found a small stone instead
My favourite part was holding the watermelon!
It was amazing, I loved seeing everyone holding the fruit and holding the toilet paper down!
Elm Class
Written by Charlotte:
During our science we have been doing research on the solar system, this week we have been focusing on the moon and the ways it changes. We used oreo’s to display the moon cycles for example: new moon, crescent, first quarter, last quarter, full moon The moon has cycles because one side is always light and as it orbits the earth we can see it in sections.
Written by Rebecca
In art, we made some beautiful thumb pots in the style of ancient Greek pots! At the end we evaluated our pots and decided what went well and what didn’t go so well. Everyone got their hands dirty and had a go, they look very authentic, good job everyone!
