In P.E. this week we have been developing our balance skills with a tennis ball and racket by dropping the ball from different heights and trying to catch it on the racket without it bouncing off. In the next few weeks we will be building on our skills to play a game of tennis.
D.Y.W. started back up again this week and in the Life Skills group we made breakfast bars with apricots, raisins, sultanas, coconuts and oats. We will be making pancakes, pitta pockets and learning how to sew. In Design and Manufacture we were being engineers and in groups from mixed classes we had to make a table from scrap paper and our aim was to make the table stand and hold a lightweight book. It also had to be 20cm tall. In Learning for Sustainability we gather natural materials outside such as sticks, leaves, stones, bark and pine cones to make a piece of Eco Art next week. In Digital Technologies we were learning how to control Spheros. First, we watched a video on how to programme the Spheros. We had to download an app and have learned how to change colour, direction and speed of the Spheros.
In R.M.E. we were learning about Shabbat. Shabbat is celebrated by Jews every Friday and finishes at sunset on Saturday. Just before sunset, the woman of the house lights 2 candles and the father blesses the children. The father then pours wine or grape juice into a special cup and passes it around. After that, they cut the Challah bread and sprinkle it with salt. Then families have a meal around the table and talk to each other about their week and sing songs together Shabbat is celebrated because Jews believe God built the world in 6 days and took a rest on the 7th day. Therefore, they rest on Friday evening through to Saturday so in preparation for this they have to tidy their house, do their shopping and chores beforehand. Today is Friday so Happy Shabbat!
Today, in Science we have been learning about sound and vibrations. We participated in an experiment where we got a bowl which had clingfilm over it and we put sprinkles on it. We had to talk or sing over the sprinkles to see if there was a vibration. We knew there was a vibration if the sprinkles bounced a little or if there was a slight noise. We learned that when 2 things touch they push air around it and it vibrates creating sound waves and when the waves touch your eardrum you hear the sound. When you are in a cave or an empty room and you speak, there is an echo. This is when the sound bounces off the walls back to your ear. We also did a sound field trip to learn of the sounds in our environment.
In Maths, some groups have been making 24 hour clock pie charts to show what activities we do throughout the whole day. We have also been using calendars and exploring months to find out how many days there are in each month and a leap year. We learned that 30 days has September, April, June and November. All the rest have 31 except for February alone, which has 28 days clear and 29 in a leap year. One of the maths groups has been exploring strategies such as CUBE to figure out a word problem. C = Circle, U = Underline, B = Box and E = Evolve. We will be continuing with this next week.
