We had fun testing lots of household objects to see if they were magnetic in our ‘Scrapyard Challenge’. We took it in turns to choose an them, predict If it would be magnetic then check it using our magnet.  We found some of our results surprising. The 10p coin wasn’t magnetic but the 2p coin was & we discussed reasons for this. We enjoyed this activity and worked really well in our groups.

We had fun checking how much we remembered about magnets with a fact hunt in class. We had to discuss our answer in our groups then find the correct letter from around class.  We did really well!

As if by magic we made our safety pins look like they were flying in the air.

We didn’t manage to make the pins rise from the floor when our magnet was above our tables but, when we got to explore with them ourselves we came up with other ideas and they worked even better,

The magnets we used needed to be quite near the pins to make them fly. This told us that the magnets are not very strong.

We played a game to find out who could use their magnets to pick up the most clips. The winner was the person who had the most clips at the end of the game.

How do you think this could be used in real life?

We have been exploring how to use Cuisenire rods to help us with our number work. It has been fun using them to help us to answer our sums and then check over our answers.

We have been listening carefully to the story of, ” James and the Giant peach” which was written by Roald Dahl.

A particularly exciting scene was when the seagulls pulled the peach from the water.

We had imagined in our heads what the scary sharks looked like then we saw a short clip of the film and the sharks were mechanical and not real. This has helped us to see that people can see things in different ways.

A huge thank you to Mrs. Ryalls for bringing our work to life on her lovely display. P3b are very proud of themselves!

A part of the story we found exciting in our novel study was when the seagulls pulled the giant peach out of the sea to save everyone from the circling sharks. They worked together as a team and saved the day.

We made our own seagulls but, the best part was when we took them outside  to fly in the playground.

This afternoon we thought about the many people who help us and make us happy then we made a special card to say a big thank you to them.

We spent some time this afternoon investigating with our magnets to find out if there were any magnetic materials in the back playground.

We did not find anything that was naturally magnetic in this area but, we found out that man made objects were magnetic like the lampposts, gates and fences.

Now that many of us are reading chapter books when we read for enjoyment we need to mark the page we stopped reading at with a marker.

We made these very simple markers during our Soft Start time and they have some of the characters from our novel study on them.

• Can you spot your favourite characters?