As part of our science based superhero project, we’ve begun investigating electricity, magnets and forces. We’ve used child initiated learning to create some circuits and investigate magnetic materials.
Well done to Ruben for your tremendous effort, this was a very creative way to present your dragon design. I love the high level description used, particularly the metaphors!
We’ve done some great practical science all about the digestive system. The children were able to see food being mashed up with saliva and begin its journey through the body! The children asked some brilliant questions and really deepened their understanding about how the body works.
Chewing food
Down the oesophagus
Stomach churning with stomach acid
Through the intestines
Out to where our waste ends up…
Where did the children think our body parts were?
I’m so proud of our children for their work on the dragon and it was great to see some of them weilding him around at the lantern festival. To the children’s relief, he is back in the classroom where he belongs!
It has been brilliant to see children who have arrived to Brooklands Farm since September, receive their Open, Grow, Believe pin. This shows that the children are understanding and taking on board the school ethos. Thank you also to the parents who came in to share in the celebration, it’s so important for children to see us working together and celebrating their achievements together.
As a homework task, children were asked to learn a poem and practise it.
This group of children got into a group themselves and choreographed the poem without any adult help! They used fantastic expression and made it very amusing! Well done.
Not worrying about being a day late, year 3 and 4 have become fantastic poets today, to celebrate National Poetry Day! We explored and wrote our own nonsense poems, found out about Kenning poems and even shared some poetry with other year groups in the school!
I’m especially proud of the children who reviewed and improved their work multiple times to achieve a quality final piece.
A wonderful nonsense poem!
Stephanie and Ben worked hard on this lovely original nonsense poem
I love Em Jaye’s illustration to go with this poem
Children being inspired by the dark!
Mr Gray’ Fire poem certainly brought the heat!
Mr Morrison performing ‘Where do all the teachers go?’ By Peter Dixon
Yesterday and today, we have been igniting our project and getting excited about continuing to deepen our learning about Milton Keynes.
We played Milton Keynes Monopoly, which helped children learn the names of different places and it tied in well with our addition and subtraction focus in maths.
Today we explored the map of Milton Keynes and went on a treasure hunt! One child, surprised by the sheer size of MK, asked whether it was a map of the world!
As part of our Fun Science Friday, year 3/4 took part in bubbleology. As you can see, the children were showing incredibly high learning zones and everyone left on a well being 5. Helping children to be excited about Science is so important to me and practical experiments help to create lifelong learning experiences.
Today we were scientists of the highest calibre! Children challenged themselves to grow their language when describing what happens when raisins are dropped into fizzy lemonade! We reasoned and justified our answers using our knowledge.
Keep up the good work year 3/4
