We had the ultraviolet lightbox in class today to see how clean our hands are. we had just washed them with soap, but we could still see the white marks on our skin and nails to show where the germs still were.
When we were allowed to use our PE hall before Lockdown, we learned about team work by creating letters of the alphabet in our groups and cooperating with one another. It is a life skill. We have been learning about capital letters in class and we attempted to make them, using the shapes we created with our bodies.
We have been looking at the properties of 3D Shapes. We can describe each of the shapes using face, corner and edge. We enjoy building with our 3D shapes as we learn.
We have been learning to use rulers to measure. It is important to know where to start measuring from on the ruler to make certain that the measurement is correct. It is a life skill. We use “cm” (centimetre) when we write a measurement, eg 24cm.
We measured lines in the tuff tray and we measured our feet by drawing round our shoes and measuring them from toe to heel.
Last term, we had lots of fun learning Science with Mrs. Short on a Tuesday morning.
We learned about materials and their properties. We designed and created mini umbrellas, which we then tested by pouring water over them. We were very happy to discover that most of them worked really well and came up with ideas of how to improve the ones that didn’t work.
We also learned about living and non-living things. We are able to describe the features of living things are and sort them into different categories and explain our decision.
We have also looked at the examples of forces (pushing, pulling and twisting) in the classroom and in the playground, predicting how applying more or less force would change the speed and direction at which objects moves.
Jane Goodall is a wonderful conservationist and her close observation of chimpanzees is world-renowned. We watched a clip of her releasing a chimpanzee back into the wild and we were really moved when the chimpanzee gave her a goodbye hug before going off into the wild.
We then did our own observations of gorillas in Africa on a live webcam. They were amazing as they licked each other to wash and ate the shrubbery. We were even more amazed when the gorillas went away and three giraffes wandered into the picture!
John MacAdam invented tarmac. He discovered that small stones and lime chippings were much smoother to travel on and when heated, it became a smooth surface – tarmac.
We road-tested our vehicles on different road surfaces. We discussed which was the best road surface material and what problems were faced with the other materials.
We looked at the brilliant work of Arthur Fry. He accidentally invented the Post It note. His special glue meant that paper could be stuck down and lifted off without using any marks.
We made our own glue to see if we could use our own ingredients to stick two pieces of paper together, We used flour, cornflour, sugar, salt, liquid soap, detergent and water. We could use some of the ingredients or all of them. We were remarkably successful!
Mrs McVittie has shared some photos that she took of our Hallowe’en fun. Everyone looked fabulous all dressed up! The spooky activities took place on our new pitch. Thank you to everyone for their support and their donations.
We have been working on joining up our handwriting and are trying to use it in our everyday work. It is really all beginning to come together now.
