Over the past couple of weeks we have been learning about music. The main focus is thinking about how music makes us feel. Last week we listened to a piece of music. We didn’t know  anything about the music but had to listen carefully and imagine what we thought the music was about. We then had to draw our idea! We were very excited to find that the song was about a firebird who had been captured and was then freed!

We all really enjoyed the piece of music and some of us created our own dance which we then performed to others in the class.

This week we focused on our emotions and how different music can make you feel a certain way. We discussed the different tempo in music, the instruments we could hear and also the lyrics. All of these things can make us feel a certain emotion. Some music makes us feel happy and excited whilst other songs can make us feel scared or sad! One piece of music made us feel calm and it was even described as feeling like a big hug!

This week we started learning about Space. One thing we wanted to find out about was what makes it become day and night. We watched a short video which explained how the earth moves and when certain parts face the sun it is day time. We then created our own diagram of this and labelled it to show our understanding. Some of us have travelled as far as Australia before and enjoyed sharing their experience of it being day time there when it is night time here! We were able to see this on this on the globe!

Last week we created our own bar charts to display some data we collected about the class. We were all asked our favourite animals and then used tally marks to record this. We then used this information to build a bar chart with cubes. We had to think about the data and the numbers on the bar chart.