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Basketball
Basketball
Healthy Week dips
Healthy Week dips
Virtual author visit
Virtual author visit
This week we took part in a virtual author visit with former Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho. We enjoyed coming up with a one word poem that had a long title.
At the centre of my world I met a towering sight!
Mountains.
What would your one word poem be to go with this long title?
The smell of my world tickles my nose and reminds me of home.
Mysterious visitor
Mysterious visitor
This week we solved a mystery, trying to discover which animals had produced these footprints. We wrote to the Natural History Museum to ask them questions about the animal whose prints we couldn’t identify - the dodo!
Our week
Our week
This week we have continued to read Rosie Revere and followed her instructions to make a hoop glider.
We have been busy designing waterproof coats, thinking about which materials would be best and why. We had great fun testing these materials in Science this week.
Our week
Our week
This week, we enjoyed a great online workshop from the learning team at Tower Bridge, London where we made our own bridges and tested how effective they were. Have a look at some of our bridges on the left.
In maths we have continued to learn how to subtract, this week focusing on using a numberline to count back.
In history, we have been finding out about Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806 - 1859). You might like to look at this link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/znj32sg
Our week
Our week
This week we have loved starting our new topic of ‘Who can be an inventor?’ by creating some amazing inventions out of junk modelling materials. We have also started our history topic - our Big Question this term is ‘Who can be an inventor?’. We also enjoyed finding out about famous inventors, you can watch the video here: Famous Inventors
In maths, we recapped how to subtract. We have also been thinking about, if we know the answer to 5 - 1 = 4, how this can help us with knowing 50 - 10 = 40. We will be continuing with this next week.
Art
Art
In art, we have been looking at pattern and colour and how these are important in Kenya for clothing and necklaces. We have enjoyed designing necklaces based on those we have looked at in class and are now creating these in neat. Here is a sneak preview, we can't wait to show you the final outcomes! In Maasai culture, they believe that the more beads in your necklace, the more wealthy you are.
Here are some of the colours we have chosen and what they represent in the designs:
White = peace
Green = health / land
Blue = energy / sky
Golden Ratio
Golden Ratio
Every week in geometry this term, we've been looking at examples of the 'golden ratio' in nature and art. Here are some of the fantastic drawings we did based on Van Gough's 'Starry Night' this week.
Kenya
Kenya
We had so much fun sorting different crops into those that have been grown in the UK and those that have been grown in Kenya. We discussed the way the climate in Kenya was brilliant for growing crops like tea and coffee and how green beans grew in the UK, but only during our summer season. The children were brilliant at trying different the different food, everyone gave it a good go, even if they didn't always like it! And some got a very pleasant surprise and ate seconds of our sweet potato and pineapple!
Start of term
The children have settled in well and we have enjoyed getting to know them. Our big question this half term is "How is Kenya different from the UK?" The children have enjoyed learning about the climate in both places and how the physical and human features are different too.
The children have also enjoyed reading different versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and created WANTED posters for someone who ate some porridge and left the empty bowl in our classroom...
In art we have been busy painting portraits and also designing Kenyan necklaces. We have been looking at the use of pattern and colour.
In maths we have been busy thinking about place value and how we can represent numbers in different ways.
The flower paintings above were painted by the children on transition day and are brightening up the classroom.
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