our science topic has been the Solar System this term. So far we have created posters, newspaper reports, leaflets and power points during our writing. We were learning to create informative texts.
We used our newspaper reports about the first ever moon landing and we changed them into a script for a news report. You can see some examples on our school Twitter. We also have been working on taking notes from a text. We watched informative videos on the planets and took notes then created a mind map poster.
We have also made power points to share information about all of the 8 planets in our solar system.
During art, we created papier-mache planets using different sized balloons to try and make scaled down replicas. We have not yet finished but we are well on our way to a classroom sized solar system.
Jessica and Beth S making JupiterLaurie and Callum making Venus
Last week we started learning about the Victorians. We began learning about Queen Victoria and went on to learn about the life of the Victorian people.
We did a Big Talk about the workhouse and spoke about the jobs, the conditions, the food and how we would feel if we had to live there. Then, we wrote a diary entry about a day in the life of a Victorian child in the workhouse.
This week, we started doing some art work related to the Victorians. We have painted some cityscapes which are the outlines of Victorian rooftops with chimneys and a chimney sweep. We looked at different shades of blues and oranges and mixed the paints to create different shades for each layer of rooftops.
Beth S brought in some Victorian artifacts for us to look at and discuss. Some of the items were:
Wash board
Iron
Tea pot
Money
Fountain pens
Jelly pan
Hot water bottle
It was fascinating to see that these were real Victorian objects and how different the same objects are today.
We created these buckets full of sea life by carefully drawing the outline of a bucket, then adding details such as rocks, sea weed and underwater creatures. We used a variety of lines, patterns and shapes. In writing, we then wrote a set of instructions on “How to draw a sea bucket.” We made sure that the layout was appropriate for a set of instructions and that we used ‘linking’ words for each step.
