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Like paleontologists we dug in the sand to find dinosaurs which we dusted down with brushes. We counted what we’d collected and matched with the written number.
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Earth Day Activities in Stars Class
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We have done a few activities throughout the week to signify Earth Day. We discussed ways to save energy and recycling followed by a trip to the park where we did a nature scavenger hunt. We planted seeds and built a den in class. Inside the den we read a book by torchlight to show how difficult it would be to do things if we were short of electricity. We also made a microwave sponge which uses less energy to cook than in a conventional oven.
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Stars Easter Activities
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We did some lovely Easter themed activities this week. We created an Easter card, had a shapes treasure hunt and handled lots of different animals at the ‘Petting Zoo’. We had good fun following clues to find the Easter bunny and were rewarded by a chocolate egg from him. At science we did a ‘Humpty Dumpty’ experiment where we explored different ways to save an egg from breaking when dropped from a height. This was good fun. We joined other classes from the upper primary for an outdoor disco where we played games as well as danced. A good week has been had by all.
For Health and Wellbeing this week, the class were Effective Contributors. We did different activities involving our noses and selected how this made only our nose feel. We tried to ignore whole body and focus on the individual part. The class chose their feelings and shared it with everybody.
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Stars Red Nose Day
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We enjoyed wearing superhero masks we’d made, had a red nose and spoon race and played a Blue Peter computer game. We particularly liked a red taste and try where we tasted tomatoes, apple, peppers, raspberries, jelly, strawberry custard, jam and yogurt. The raspberries were a little sharp and one person disliked red pepper but all in all it was a tasty success. We had a virtual meet up with other upper primary classes to see what red nose activities they’d been doing.
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Science Week in the Stars
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We have thoroughly enjoyed Science Week where we have been exploring our senses by doing a selection of experiments for taste, hearing, light, touch and smell. We learned that a blocked nose (or if you hold your nose) affects your sense of taste and we particularly enjoyed the sound game and ‘dancing’ rice which showed sound waves.
During our Health and Wellbeing time the Transition class took the time to take a break from Science Week prep. We took part in an African Safari Yoga. Everyone used their special binoculars to look at their class mates doing a yoga pose. They had to guess which part of our safari it represented. We had lions, zebra, snakes, elephants and mountains to name a few.
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Stars New Dinosaur Theme
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We started our dinosaur theme by creating handprint dinosaur pictures for our wall display. At science, we did a floating dinosaur experiment where we saved the dinosaur by adding stones to the jug to raise the water level by displacement. We had fun lighting up glow dinosaurs with a torch and making dinosaur shadows. Mrs Gilchrist used a ‘green’ screen for pupils to act out being a dinosaur and superimposed this on to their chosen background. This was a very exciting use of technology. We used a switch to activate the microwave where we made yummy ‘smores’ by melting marshmallows.
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Careers Week in the Stars
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For Careers Week we pretended to be Domino’s Pizza employees. We prepared the pizza’s to order. They were very tasty indeed. We also learnt about other jobs and signed them. Being a firefighter was a popular career choice.
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Fairtrade
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We found lots of goods with the Fairtrade logo and made a collage with rice, tea and lentils. We froze sliced bananas to see how they changed, played bingo and watched video’s and played songs about Fairtrade. Finally we made sundaes using Fairtrade bananas and ice cream and because it was Shrove Tuesday we added pancakes too!
