We have been looking closely at the flowers in our classroom and decided to create some observational drawings.
We have been having so much fun learning about how plants grow and change. The children took beans home over the Easter holidays and had a go at trying to grow their own beanstalks. We have spent the week looking at how to grow our own plant and the lifecycle of a flower.
This afternoon we spent some time looking at each others nocturnal animal habitiat projects. The children explained how they made them and how they used their knowledge of nocturnal animals to help design the habitat. The children (and parents! ) did an amazing job and have gained a wealth of knowledge!
Here are some photos of these amazing habitiats.
Year 5 ignited their Titanic project today! We were very lucky to have a visitor join us for the day. He brought in lots of artefacts from the Titanic and its sister ships as well as pictures of the Titanic. We even got the opportunity to try on lifejackets from that period! We asked lots of different, interesting questions about the Titanic so that we had lots of knowledge to continue using in our project!
We also spent some time developing our collaging skills by creating our own waves scenes using different shades of blue and white, as well as different collaging techniques.
As a year group we have worked together to collage a big picture of the Titanic! It is still a work in progress but here are some photos of what we have achieved so far:
Today year 5 spent the day exploring our solar system. They did lots of different activities including ordering the planets, drawing chalk orbits for the earth and moon on the playground and drawing diagrams to explain how we have day and night. It was a fantastic start to the summer term. They all achieved high learning zones, had lots of questions to ask about their learning and enjoyed discussing and sharing it with others!
We have had a great half term in 2c with lots of steps taken in our learning and lots of fun along the way! The children have truly embraced our masterchef topic, writing information reports about fruit, creating leaflets about how to grow plants and even using their play times to create dances and songs about healthy eating! There have been lots of calm pins achieved, high learning zones and lots of growing!
Enjoy your easter break and we look forward to starting our next project on nocturnal animals when we get back!
2c making their faces funny for Red Nose Day!
Year 1 have had a great afternoon building gliders (bought from our trip to Shuttleworth), paper aeroplanes and kites. We have been flying them on our playground. Miss Campbell spent her last afternoon running the kite repair shop!
What a busy half term we have had! The highlight for many was the eclipse. This generated some amazing stories by the children were they used the moon covering the sun and being ‘plunged into darkness’ as the problem. The children thought of creative resolutions and really put their writing skills to great use.
To experience the eclipse we used two pieces of paper (one with a tiny hole in) to see what was happening above (without actually looking!) What a fantastic experience this was for the children!
On Friday I also had the pleasure of awarding two star pupils with their calm pins. Well done! We are very proud of you! I wonder who will be next?!
