Leaves

Every day when we come into class, we unpack our bags, order lunch and choose a leaf to put in the bowl to show how we are feeling.  It is helpful to know how the class is feeling as we can then do something to help the children who are sad or upset and make them happy again.  Some children like to talk about it and some don’t.  How a child comes into school can affect their whole day in school.

Symmetry in nature

After a lively few ball games and running games to continue our work from last week on ‘friends of ten’,

we began looking around us for symmetry in nature and in outside constructions before working in pairs to create there wonderful symmetrical patterns using natural materials.

Designing Our Adventure Playground

We had had a meeting with a lovely engineer (Fiona) who told us all about her work at Network Rail.  It looked at a really cool job.

We decided to be like the engineers and create a 3D solid adventure playground.

We used art straws, string and blu tak and looked at how to create solid structures to make them stand.

Friends of Ten

Despite the cold weather, we had a great time outdoors today. We searched for triangular things and organised ourselves into a triangle outside too.

Once we had played some warm up games to practise our listening and watching skills we moved on to some number bond games. We each got a calculation and we were to find a partner whose number added to our own number made ten. It was so complicated at first, but we got there in the end!

Then we went on to make some ten rockets. We all worked well in teams collecting everything we needed together and I am sure you will agree our rockets look amazing!

Outdoor learning

What a marvellous day for our first outdoor learning lesson with Mrs Kelly.  The sun didn’t stop shining all morning and we had such fun exploring and discovering the school grounds.

We then played some team building games and worked together to build towers out of certain numbers of sticks.

Here are some photos of our morning.

The Wormery

The children noticed that there were lots of worms around after it rained heavily.  They wanted to know more.  We discovered that there are 27 different types of worms; worms can live for 8 years and that birds like to eat worms.

We made a wormery in class , with gravel at the bottom and then we layered it with soil and sand.  It looked like a big slice of  chocolate cake.  Then it was time to go out and get the worms.  We found a few in the soil and we collected some leaves too, to place at the top .   We watched the worms burrow down into the wormery.  We will put them back in a few days.

Covid- 19 and the Vaccine

We learned about what Covid – 19 is and how the vaccine works.

Our bodies know how to fight of germs from the cold or flu, because it has seen that virus before and remembers them.  When a new virus arrives (Covid 19), it does not know what to do and we can become very ill.  The virus is surrounded by a “shell”  (protein).  The vaccine is not the virus, but the “shell” (protein).  It will then be able to recognise it if it meets it again and fight it off.

We made our “virus” using pipe cleaners, pom poms and googly eyes.

 

Being An Astronaut – Eating

We wanted to know how astronauts eat.  Do they have a kitchen on the ISS?  We watched astronaut Chris Hadfield make and eat a sandwich using a tortilla. (They don’t use bread as the crumbs would float everywhere.)  It was amazing to watch.

Next, we ate a jelly bean while holding our noses.  Food in space tastes quite bland, and this gives the same effect.  After a few chews, we let go of our noses and the flavour became really strong.

 

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