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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.
Yesterday Mr Campbell spoke about St Patrick’s day at assembly and his background on the screen made him look like he was in Dublin. Today we went for a rainbow hunt in the garden. We came back to class made the rainbow and found a pot of gold at the end. We then all enjoyed a gold chocolate coin.
We also used a fork to paint a beard on our very own leprechaun. We enjoyed using the fork to make it look like the beard and hair. We then added a green hat to our leprechaun. Some of the pupils were able to independently use the fork making a beard. We then used a pencil to create a face for our leprechaun some had big smiles and some even had big eyebrows.
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We watched a selection of video’s and a powerpoint to tell us about the Hindu festival of colour. We particularly liked the thought of throwing powder paint at each other! We created a cosmic suncatcher using plastic lids, glue and food colouring. Once dried they should look great hung up on our classroom windows.
The Daisies have enjoyed learning about the Hindi festival of Holi. The boys loved that it was a colourful festival. We burst balloons filled with colourful powder to make colourful explosions and enjoyed mark making in the powder. We made Holi flowers using colourful rice.
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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.
The Transition class were Successful Learners when working towards their ILP targets. The different tasks included, matching time to a TV schedule, sequencing science methods, improved writing confidence, reading and understanding and communication. Everyone worked very well and is making good progress.
We were learning about Holi which is the Hindu festival, also known as the ‘Festival of Love’ or ‘Festival of Colour’.
We were successful learners when creating a smashing colourful piece of artwork.
We hid the colour and tried to guess it, we then used a hammer to hit the pad and reveal the colour. It was messy, loud and good fun!
Today we explored what different dinosaurs eat. We were successful learners and sorted the dinosaurs into groups of ‘carnivores’, ‘herbivores’ and ‘omnivores’ using a Venn diagram.
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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.
The Asteroids looked at different jobs this afternoon, specifically people who help us.
We paid attention and took part in chatting about where we can see/find people who do these jobs and how and when they might help us.
We had a great time dressing up! Our favourites were Police Officers and Firefighters!
