Some boys and girls moved the game of marbles onto the carpet, as they were moving so quickly along the floor. We discussed that there would be more friction on the carpet, so the marbles would be easier to control.

Alexander takes his move while Holly, Carly and Cameron look on.

Eleanor, Alexander, Alexander and Erin play with their peg dolls in our little theatre.

Katie, Aiva, James and Euan playing marbles.

Holly, Carly and Kiara playing with the theatre.

Art, Citizenship

Our Mother’s Day Cards

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Well done for making your beautiful cards and for your neat handwriting.

Hopefully all of your Mums liked them!

Skipping

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This week we practised our skipping and learned new rhymes to help us learn simple addition sums and the months of the year.

Well done to Miles and Cameron who really persevered and improved greatly on their skipping!

Show and Tell, Topic

Rebecca’s Show and Tell

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Rebecca brought in a special instrument which the the Victorians used to view pictures. It is called a stereoscope.

It helped to magnify the picture, so we could see it more closely.

Rebecca explaining what the instrument does.

Rebecca helping Cameron see the picture more clearly.

We all queued up to have a view.

A big thank you to Rebecca’s Mum for letting us keep it for the week.

Numeracy, Science, Tatty Tales, Working with others

Tatty Tales

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Today the farmer John Ritchie came to our school and helped us plant our potatoes.

He told us all about growing potatoes and we were able to ask him a lot of questions.

We then went out and planted two of our potatoes in our grow bag. We weighed them first of all and we will compare this weight to our final crop. We have also planted potatoes in different pots, so we will see them at different stages of growth.

John also split the children into 2 teams and they will have their own competition to see whose potatoes grow the tallest.

Thanks to John for coming to our class and helping us plant our potatoes.

John teaching us about planting potatoes.

Holly and Fred helping to hold the grow bag.

All the children helped to put soil in the Grow Bag.

Alexander and Ben getting their hands dirty.

The children naming their two potatoes for the team challenge.

The children had to choose a potato for their pot.

Numeracy, Science, Working with others

Forces

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We had great fun learning about forces today. We learnt about different forces including pushing, puling and friction.

We made sure our test was fair and measured how far different toy cars travelled down a gradient.

We also learned how to measure accurately with measuring tapes. We found out that the car with the smoothest, loose wheels travelled the furtherest and the heaviest car with the thick treads went the shortest distance.

Check out the game and quiz here.