We have been learning all about measuring length and width.  We started by thinking about the size of things around us and then we had a go a measuring the room using our hands or feet.  We discovered that Mrs Carey had less foot steps to get across the room and Nathan had the most – this is because Mrs Carey has big feet and Nathan has little feet.

As our learning has progressed we have started to measure objects with cubes and on Wednesday we measured the length and width of some images and compared our answers with our learning friends.

Last Friday we had some willing helpers who were on exam leave from the high school come into school to help us with our cooking.  Working in small groups we made yummy fork  biscuits.

We made so many we were able to share them with our friends.

Not only did we make biscuits but we also washed up…we could do this at home too!

For the next three weeks we will be getting into the kitchen and getting a chance to develop our cooking skills.  Our first session was making Fruit kebabs.  We chopped fruit into bite size chunks then threaded them onto bamboo skewers.

Term 4 started off with our class assembly.  We spent the first week learning new songs in British Sign Language and learning about looking after our environment.  The children were amazing on the day and performed beautifully!

Our theme this term is Percy the Park Keeper.  We had a special visitor to our class, Barney the Rabbit.  He spent the day with us so we could learn about caring for pets – Barney was a great success.  We have already planted broad beans and made grass caterpillars, we are now eagerly waiting to watch them grow.  We are also carrying out experiments to see what environment is best for broad beans to grow…Watch this space!

We have had a fun filled, busy term 3.  We have learned all about lighthouses and were surprised to find out that the first lighthouse was used in Egypt 2000 years ago!  As part of our theme we made our own lighthouses using plastic cups and tea lights – we even got a chance to get messy using papier mache.  We have enjoyed being scientists and finding out how electrical circuits work, and managed to join two circuits together to make two light bulbs work.