Welcome to our Class Blog. Our teachers are Mrs Sammeroff & Mrs Menzies :)
As part of our new science topic we have been learning all about food chains. We found it really interesting and couldn’t believe every food chain in the world starts with a plant! We sorted a food chain in our groups and then made some of our own. We are going to go outside to see if we can spot any animals and work out a food chain they may belong to on Thursday. Here’s hoping the sun keeps shining!
Last week we finished up our science topic all about sound. We made kazoos and pan pipes. We had to follow the instructions really carefully. Once we had made our kazoos, we tried to alter the pitch of the sound by moving our straws and making them bigger/smaller. We found it really fun!
I think it was a success making a kazoo. It was so fun because I had never played a kazoo before. It also got your problem to work. – Skye
We made it by getting lollipop sticks and elastic bands. We got a big elastic band and put it around the lollipop stick and then we put a ruler and cut 3cm of straw. We put it in the lollipop sticks and fastened it. – Amber
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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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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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!
We jumped over obstacles and ran on benches. We went under nets and tried to shoot a basketball into the net. We also went on giant steps and had to jump off of them. We had to answer some science questions. One question was “what planet do we live on?” and the other was “is there winter on Mars?” We learned that there is winter on Mars! – Isla and Noelle
I liked how they actually tested you about space and telling you interesting facts like there’s winter on Mars! – Manya
The fun run was cool because you got fit. My favourite bit was answering the questions. – Jessica
The thing I liked about the fun run was it made you fit and it was interesting about the facts. I liked crawling under the cargo net. I wish it was outside but I still had fun. – Arthur
I really liked the space run, I hope next time it can be outside. I learned interesting facts about space and I really liked doing the cargo net and the basketball hoop where we tried to shoot in. – Louis
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