We have been exploring plants through our VR headsets.  Today we tried out our new Blue-Bots using our iPad to plot directions.  We liked that we can see what is going on inside the new Blue-Bots.

We continued to share our achievements from outside school today. Everyone confidently answered question and shared their expert knowledge.  Well done 👍

We had a great time exploring all the different habitats of a rainforest. We really enjoyed learning about the corn snake, the Madagascan hissing cockroach and a Chilean rose tarantula.

This week we have been learning about angles  and how to use a protractor.  We explored lots of different angles in many different ways. We discovered that a right angles is 90 degrees, an acute angle is between 0 and 90  degrees, an obtuse angle is more than 90 and less than 180 degrees.

This  term we are investigating what plants require to grow.  We have explored a variety of plants and flowers to make detailed diagrams. We also named the important parts of a flower and can now state what  they do.

Over the next few weeks we will be carrying out experiments to see what happens when a plant doesn’t get water or sun light. We are also working hard to make a herb garden so we can sell our product at the summer fayre.

As a class we have decided all profits from our herb company will go to a charity.

Our new topic was on fake news.  Over the last few weeks we have investigated what fake news is and how we can spot it.

We also researched lots of different types of social media like Facebook and Instagram and  investigated how they can have an impact on how we feel or what we think is real.

We found out that tea has a major influence on the development of Chinese culture and Chinese traditions is closely connected with  tea.

We investigated the different  types of tea in China and discovered green tea is the oldest and most popular.  There is also black, white and oolong tea.  We usually have tea in a teabag but in China 🇨🇳 it is made using leaves from the tea plant and boiled water.

Have a look at us making tea the traditional Chinese way.

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We enjoyed learning all about the Chinese opera and what each colour represents.  The Chinese Oprea is one of the oldest known dramatic art forms worldwide. Chinese Oprea masks are a way of representing different characters, personalities and moods.

We discovered that red means loyalty and integrity. Blue faces can mean stubbornness, white means evil, yellow means cruel and black means integrity.  We had lots of fun trying on the masks and creating our own designs.

This term we have explored the elements of storytelling through creative writing, art and drama.  We have investigated what engineering is and looked at structures around us. We investigated the properties of different materials and discused  why they are used in building.

We decided to build a setting for a 🎥 film. The first skills we had to master was creating fantastic characters, an interesting setting and coming up with an imaganitive story.

We used resources such as www.intofilm.org and scratch to investigate LEGO films and animation.  After creating interesting characters we started to build our sets.

We worked in four teams to design a new LEGO world 🌎. Just before the spring break we completed our sets and storyboards.  We will keep you updated when we start our stop start animation.