For Science Week we had a project homework where we had to investigate how sounds are made. Miss MacArthur has been blown away by how hard we worked and some of our fantastic investigations. Here you can find some:
Mathematical Monday
This morning we all worked really hard during our maths lesson. We have all been learning about some really tricky things recently.
The circles have been learning about addition with carrying. They have worked so hard and done a fantastic job! Today they answered lots of addition questions and marked their answers using a calculator and one of Miss MacArthur’s special marking pens. Here they are looking very proud of their work:
The triangles have been learning their times tables. Today they had to put them to the test by answering lots of times tables questions and colouring the shape the right colour. Amber was very proud of her finished piece:
The squares have been learning about division with remainders. Today they took on the role of the teacher because Miss MacArthur thought they could do it best! They worked so hard to explain all of their thinking when solving tricky questions!
P3a and P6a – a dream team!
We have been working collaboratively with P6a. We take turns to visit each other and share our learning. We do lots of different activities together like reading, discussing topic work and looking at pieces of work we are proud of. This time, we took our writing jotters to P6a’s classroom to read them our writing all about our monsters. Then, we worked together to write about our monster’s personality. P6a helped us think of really good ways to describe how our monster acts and some of their likes and dislikes. It helped us to think about how we can always try to make our writing even better!
Mazin’s Achievement
Mazin’s basketball team won the league and the cup! Mazin was also voted as his team’s MVP – huge congratulations Mazin! 🙂
Writing
Over the last few weeks, we have all created a pet monster. This week for writing, we started to describe our character. We only focused on how our character looks this week but next time we will start to describe its personality too. Once we had finished, we paired up and read our partner’s writing. We highlighted the bits in their description we thought were really good and peer assessed. Then, some of us read our writing to the class and they gave us feedback, telling us what they thought was good about our writing and what we could do better next time. Here are some pictures of us reading our writing to our class. Our star writer’s pieces are a few posts below :).
Bug Hunting
On Wednesday, Katie a ranger from Rouken Glen Park came to visit us. She gave us all a net and asked us to try to find some minibeasts in our eco-garden. We had to search under rocks, plants and leaves to try and find them because lots of mini-beasts like damp conditions. We really enjoyed taking part and we found lots of interesting bugs. We found some leeches, a ground beatle, baby snails, old snail shells and a baby slug. At the end, Katie put them all back in the garden safely :).
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STEM Challenge Marble Run
On Tuesday, we completed our marble runs. We were so proud of our creations! We all worked really well in a team and really enjoyed our challenge.
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Maisie’s Achievement
Maisie swam 100m unaided – well done Maisie! We are all so proud of you 🙂
Star Writers
Our Star Writers this week are Maisie, Ella, Jessica and Bruce. Here are our character descriptions:
Maisie’s Monster
My monster’s name is Colourboller because it is full of colour. Colourboller is the fluffiest monster in the whole world. She has a beautiful multicoloured belly and her lovely pink cheeks look like cookies. She has a great round body and is very very cute. Her eyes are a nice purple eye colour. She has shiny round teeth and her mouth shines brighter than a burning fire. Her legs are so small and her hands are brighter than blueberries. On her hands you will find four spikes. She is holding a sword and a magic setter. She has beautiful wings and black reindeer horns.
Bruce’s Monster
My monster is called Ryin. Ryin is a bit cheeky but very very funny. Ryin likes sport and he is very good at it because he is very tall. He has a shiny orange face like a chocolate orange wrapper. On each arm he has really spiky red claws. He has four shiny eyes. He has small, fat legs. He has one lonely bit of hair and he always wears a red cap. He has a really sharp nose with a big moustache with sharp, big ears. Finally, he has a fluffy orange tummy and all over his tummy he has spikes which are as sharp as a knife.
Ella’s and Jessica’s will be added on Monday 🙂
STEM Challenge
This week is British Science Week. Mr Russell gave us a STEM challenge where we had to use cardboard to create a marble run. We had to create cardboard struts and stick them to our boxes for the marble to run down. We learned that if our marble was going too fast, we could make the surface stickier or rougher to slow it down. We could also change the angle of our struts to make the marble go faster or slower. We all had great fun. Miss MacArthur didn’t enjoy the mess we made as much as we did!
