We gave ourselves a score of 1-10 to show how much we knew about materials at the beginning of term and then a new score to show how much we know now. Our scores had risen.

We also discussed how we could continue to improve these scores. (Christopher is going to look at patterns of bricks on buildings). We chatted about how we can apply our learning in different situations.  Oliver thinks his knowledge will be useful in Minecraft and lots of children are excited about their plans to build new models.)

P3 have been very busy making items to sell on our stall. We decorated plant pots and planted petunias. They look great and will be a great addition to any home!

We also made bunting and posters for our stall and some children have volunteered to help at the stall on Saturday for a few minutes. What a great way to put into practice our learning about money. Today we were able to talk about profit. Please support our stall on Saturday.

We will also be running a small hoop-la stall. The children suggested suitable distances to throw hoops from, and we put our measuring and throwing skills into practice as we worked out these distances.

Just look at how these shelters are progressing:

Mrs Taylor was thrilled to see friends helping each other.

Lots of problem solving went on and we learned from each other. Mrs Taylor heard children saying”That’s a great idea”as they saw a friend tackle a problem.

As promised, here are the links to the games we enjoyed last week.http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy-money-and-mean.html

http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/working_with_coins/eng/Introduction/default.htm

(choose main session part 4)

http://www.ictgames.com/moneyPage.htm

(click on the 20p coin icon)

Practising giving change can be so much fun!

It’s great to see everyone using items to help their learning.

We have been chatting about what makes a good learner and P3 came up with these ideas.

Can you think of any more ideas?

We have put together all our learning about materials to build a shelter for a toy and today we started this project.

We had to make a base and then choose materials for supports. Wooden sticks, plastic straws and paper or card cylinders were selected.

Then after careful consideration we chose a material for the roof, which was strong and waterproof. We discussed how to fix this on. Mrs Taylor was delighted to see different strategies being used, co-operation between friends and perseverance. Some of our toys are loving these shelters already. We will add more to them next week.

We pretended we were reporting on the Ascension and interviewing the disciples.

The disciples gave interesting views…many were shocked, amazed and puzzled.

On our journey to the library we took photos of how materials fit together.

We then tried to recreate these joins in school.

Bradley enjoyed showing us his Boy’s Brigade award.

We were very interested and asked Bradley all about the Boy’s Brigade.