Spheros

During our final Sphero lesson, we created an obstacle course to guide the Sphero through using coding blocks.

“The Spheros were really fun to control.” Elliot

“It was fun to make up the obstacles for the Spheros to move through.”  Evie

Personal Talks

This week we all done a great job of presenting our personal talks.  We were working on looking at the audience, projecting our voices and being able to answer questions about our topic.

“The talks were really good and everyone tried their best and we learnt new things about one another, like different things we like.” Minna

“I really liked the funny memes at the end of people’s Google slides.” Abrar

Pregnancy & Birth

This week we learnt about how a baby grows in it’s mummy’s tummy.  We also learnt a little bit about birth and how to look after a baby.  The highlight has been responding to the babies cries and deciding whether the baby needs a bottle, a dummy or a clean nappy.

“I learnt that the sound of a baby crying is annoying!”  Connor

“We learnt that babies grow inside their mummy’s tummies and how to take care of them.” Evie

Commonwealth Games

Last week we were delighted to have Miss Regan in P4c to tell us all about her journey to becoming a Commonwealth Games not once, but twice! We were excited to see all of her memorabilia and here her story.

“We got great information from Miss Regan and it was very inspiring!” – Emily

“It was really cool to learn about the life of  an athlete and the actual journey to get there.” Minna

Spheros

We have now been learning how to programme the Spheros for 3 weeks. We can now programme the Spheros to move in a range of directions, talk, play music and change colour.

‘The Spheros are fun to use and I enjoyed programming and driving them.‘ – Hamza

“We had lots of fun controlling the Spheros.”  Ivy

“They were a bit hard to control , but we got there.” Katherine

Spheros

The highlight of this week has been using the Spheros.  We connected the Spheros to an iPad and used the iPad to control the Sphero.  We programmed the Sphero to move around obstacles and draw shapes whilst changing colours.

“They were fun, but went out of control at times when you programmed it to do too much.” Matthew

“The Spheros were really fun. especially when we got them to draw something.  Me and Rosa called ours ‘Firo.'” – Minna

“The Spheros were fun. They were rolling around everyone to start with, then we learnt how to control them very well.  ” Ali

Daffodil Tea

We all had a great time performing our songs, poems and dances for our guests.  Our visitors raised £143.50 for Marie Curie Charity.  We would like to say a huge ‘THANK YOU!’ to our guests for their generosity.

“It was really fun and we learned lots from our mistakes!”  Elliot

“It was pretty hard to do the spring chicken dance with one arm, but I did my best.”  Flora

“The show really fun and I we do one like it again.  I really liked the bit at the end where we could sell our daffodils and serve juice and biscuits.” Evie

“We are really happy about the amount of money we raised and not only did the adults learn about Marie Curie but we learnt lots about spring.” Minna

“It was hard to remember all the lines, but everyone done their best.”  Emily

Eid Mela

Today we were wearing cultural dress.  Some boys in our class told us about their cultural dress and what they usually wear for Eid.

“I feel good about wearing my cultural dress at school because I can show what religion I am. ”  Ali

“The clothes we wear  look the same as what other people wear, but they just have different name. ” Ibrahim

Repeating Patterns

Islamic patterns tessellate and are based around a star at the centre.  We tried making our own tessellating patterns using shapes, symmetry and colours.

“My design was based on the Moroccan flag.” Andrew

“The repeating patterns was really fun and I really like how we mixed the Eid Mela tasks in with maths.  It was really fun and I hope we can do it again.”  Evie

Music

‘Music was fun this week.  I enjoyed playing the clapping game and playing the glockenspiel.’ Evie

Bubble Fun!

We made bubble wands during our reward time this week.

‘The bubbles were very  big when you blew them.’ –  Flora

‘We had fun with the bubbles when we were dipping the wands in the mixture.’  – Katherine

‘The wands were easy to make.’ – Emily

World Book Day

Can you guess which book our photograph represents?

We had fun recreating our scene from our favourite book.  We had fun trying to guess the scenes other classes created at assembly too.

Book in a Box/Jar

Some members of the class took part in the Book in  a Box/Jar competition.  We had fabulous entries, but Katherine was the P4 winner with her ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ box.  🙂

Well done to everyone who entered the competition, they were great entries!

Keith Haring Inspired Art

We worked as a team to create our own Keith Haring inspired mural.  We used our water colour painting skills and cartoon art skills to create our hearts and four girls collaboratively arranged the hearts into our mural.

“It was really hard to make, but it was really fun to see it all come together.” Rosa

Science – Dissolving

Last week we carried out an experiment to see which  substances dissolved in water.

“It was fun to see what substances dissolved and do a science investigation.”  Jacob

PE

We have been learning how to pass and stop the ball the hockey as well as shoot at a goal.  We have also been learning about attacking and defending as part of a team.

In Badminton we can now serve over the net and maintain a short rally.

Design Technology

We worked in groups to design an art gallery that meets a design brief inspired by the range of artists we have research over the last four weeks.  We used ‘Make Do’ kits to construct our models.

“It was fun using the ‘Make Do’ kits to make art galleries.  It was exciting because we were making things things with cardboard, but it wasn’t fun when we had to take it apart.”  Ayyoub

Science – Electricity

This week we have investigated how to make a complete circuit to make a light bulb light up.  We then investigated which materials were conductors and insulators within our circuit.  We learnt that water is a very good conductor of electricity and the dangers of water around electricity.

“I enjoyed making circuits and trying something new.” Hamza

 Music

This week in music we were learning how to write stick beats in music.  Mrs Lyall sang a tune and we were able to draw the number of sticks in the rhythm and show the length of the different notes.  We then worked in groups to find rhythm sticks to match Mrs Lyall’s tune.  Once we were confident at this, we split into the red and blue group and played different rhythms to different time signatures using drumsticks.

History of Art

This week we wrote stories about ‘The Sunflowers’ by Vincent van Gogh and created ‘The Daffodils’ by P4c.  We started with a pencil drawing, then used water colours to add in the background colours.  We mixed two primary colours to make complementary colours for our sky.  Next week we will add the finishing touches to our daffodils and stems.  We were proud of our artwork!

Hockey

This week we started our new outdoor PE hockey block.  We learnt how to hold te hockey stick, dribble and stop the ball.

“Hockey was quite challenging because you are trying not to hit people with your stick.” Arrietty

Daily Literacy Learning (DLL)

Spelling Reading Comprehension Common Words

Spelling Games

This term we have started DLL.  Four days a week we do a rotation of activities involving our weekly reading book and spelling words.  We practise our handwriting and spelling in a range of different ways too.

History of Art – Vincent van Gough

This week we have been learning about Vincent van Gogh.  We created our own self-portraits using oil pastels in the style of Vincent van Gogh.  We used a range of colours to mix strokes of colours to reflect our skin and hair colour.

“It was fun when we were making our self-portraits.  I’m proud of my finished picture.”  Jacob