This week P3 celebrated the start of the Chinese New Year through lots of activities including Guided Reading where we found out about how the festival is celebrated and that 2020 is the Year of Rat.  We made our own decorative Chinese Lanterns that are traditionally used to warn off any bad spirits!  Some of the lanterns had red on them because it’s regarded as a lucky colour.

We also used our problem solving skills to crack a Chinese Number code!

In our topic work this week we looked at the science behind how Icarus managed to fly.  We combined our investigative and creativity skills to design and build paper planes.  We found out that thrust, drag, lift and gravity all have an effect on how well our planes flew.  In the case of Icarus, we decided that gravity was the strongest force!

 

In writing we worked in small groups to look at and talk about different characters from Greek Mythology.  Some of them were quite scary!  Ask your children how many of the characters they can remember and what words they used to describe them.