Month: November 2022

These are the materials you need to make a drum:

tree trunk

plate

pencil

chisel

hand axe

hand drill

plane

string

needle

goat skin

I have written an excellent set of instructions for making a drum which is on the wall of the classroom. Please come and read them!

by kye

 

 

 

 

We go on to Nessy.

Nessy is  a  web site  that  you  can  learn  on  your  computer  for spelling  and  you  can  also  do  maths.

We   are   doing  a   map   of  Africa  for the wall – and learning about it’s animals and culture.

By  Daniel

Recently, in school we have been watching a series under the name “Africa’s Child”. It tells us about the lives of children who live in certain parts of Africa. So far we have done Ghana and Kenya. Along with the watching of the Ghana episode, we made instructions on how to make djembe drums, For Kenya, we are doing a project on Kenyan animals. I’m personally going to go for the monkeys, because… ? When we watched the Ghana video, we learnt about a girl who was getting ready for a show, where she would do a tribal dance. They went to go and get a drum, and that’s where we made the instructions from. For the Kenya video, we found out about the life of a boy in the Maasai tribe. We learnt how going to school is dangerous, as the wild animals can attack him whenever. His family lives in a hut made of dung and mud. He takes the animals out before he goes to school, and also takes tourists on guides around the wild to practice his English.

This was Caspian, by the way. Also, goodbye.

In maths we are doing 2D shapes. last week we did some remembrance drawing and painting. we are learning about Africa and the country’s that are in Africa we are learning about Africa because we are doing the lion king as our school show we were making a map of Africa and all the country’s that are in Africa.

 

 

By Ramani and Jackson

This term our new topic is about Space.

We learnt  about the order of the planets and made sculptures out of the planets using  play dough. We found out that Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and that if you put all the other seven planets together they would still be smaller than Jupiter. The sun could fit one billion Earth’s in it with more room to spare for Jupiter that’s how big the sun is. Pluto was the smallest planet until Pluto became a dwarf planet and now Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system. The sun is actually a star and the stars you see in the sky are other sun’s are bigger but they look smaller because they are further away from us and our solar system.

. This is us making craters out of flour and coco powder and we also added some sand into ours. We spread it about the box and dropped a tennis ball, shuttle cock, basket ball and a soft ball. We also piled up the mixture into like a mountain and then dropped the tennis ball on top of the mountain.  Below you can see some of us  making the sculptures of the planets using play dough. We had a  piece of paper and measured the planets how far away they are from the sun in our solar system. 

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By Me and Mc. Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

We made craters with balls and stones and dropped them in to flour, cocoa powder and sand.  Then we wrote about space and we put inflatable planets in there right spots.

 

FUN FACT

Neptune is the furthest planet from the sun.

We have made Playdo planets. We had blow up planets and we made a rhyme, Millers Very Evil Monkey Jumps Stupidly Up Neptune.And we listen to songs. Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune (Pluto) We made craters  with sand and flour and coco powder in the rain and we are doing a blog right now. By Findlay and Ruby

Mercury  is the closest planet to the sun but it is not the hottest . It has lots of craters and is mostly made of iron.

Venus is a rocky planet like all of the first four planets so Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. It is the hottest planet in the solar system.

Earth is the only planet in the solar system that has life that we know of. It is mainly covered with water.

Mars  has the biggest mountain that we know of in the universe and it is called Olympus Mons. It has a red colour and is sometimes  known as the red planet.

Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system and it is the first gas giant in order.  It has a big red spot which is a storm that is twice the size of Earth!

Saturn has rings that are made of ice, rock and dust. It is made from hydrogen and helium.

Uranus is made from methane and that’s why it smells like rotten eggs! It has a ring around it and it spins on it’s side.

Neptune has 13 moons and is the windiest planet in the solar system. It is really cold, so cold that it even has ice volcanoes on it!

We did some activities like making the planets out of play doh and making craters in flour and coco powder.

mercury is the closest planet to the sun but it is not the hottest.

Venus is the the second closest planet to the sun and it it also the hottest planet.

earth is the only planet in the universe that is known to have life.

mars is the 2nd smallest planet the largest volcano in the solar system is on mars its called Olympus Mons.

Jupiter has 80 moons it is 4.603 billion years old and it is the biggest and oldest planet in the solar system. 

Saturn is the only planet that has visible rings with a normal telescope its the second biggest planet in the solar system

Uranus is made of mainly  hydrogen  some helium and a little bit of methane.

Neptune is the windiest planet in the solar system and it has 14 moons and its the last planet in the solar system.

Jupiter is the biggest planet in the solar system and all the planets combined would be nowhere near the size of Jupiter. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and very cold at night and at the day it is very hot..