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Flying safety pins

 

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.

 

Everything is peachy!

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!

Pull !

 

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.

Magnetism in nature.

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

Mark the page

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?

Spelling

Our spelling pattern for this week is short I. We made our words with plasticine and challenged ourselves to adding more to the word and making it longer eg pin  pinning pinned.

Gym, mystery and system are also on our list. Why is that ?