Mrs Reid let us explore the magnets then we had to draw a picture and surround it with pieces of pipe cleaner.

When the magnet was close to the pipe cleaner it stuck to the magnet.

Why do you think this happened ?

Questions

Click on t he link above to see some of the questions we asked and answered about magnets.

Today we chose some of the characters we have met in Roald Dahl’s ,” James and the Giant peach.” We then thought of words to describe them.

We used our words and drawings to help us to write character descriptions.

I wonder what will happen to the peaches?

We have been thinking about what we have enjoyed in our novel. Most of us liked meeting the insect characters in the peach tunnels.

We tried a little bit of Problem Solving today. Our strategy was draw a picture.

We wanted to find out how many people would be in different sized groups.

In our class we have 25 pupils so each time we worked our groups out we had to have 25.

We also used plasticine to represent people and this  helped us to work the problem out.

As part of our novel study about,” James and the Giant peach” by Roald Dahl we looked very closely at a peach and thought about words we could use to describe it.

We have been thinking about the kindness our friends show us in their words and actions.

We have been learning about what we are grateful for through our virtual whole school assembly.

We are all grateful for different things. Here are some of the things we are grateful for:

• my house
• my family
• my dog
• my sister/brother
• my Mum and Dad
• having good friends to play with
• my teacher

* What are you grateful for ?

We have been studying Charles Rennie Mackintosh high backed chair designs. You can still sit on his chairs in the Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow. We learned about perspective when we made our chairs look 3D.

What an amazing dress rehearsal ! Good luck for the shows today and tomorrow.

Thank you to Mrs. Ryalls, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Ward for creating the show stopping costumes and corridor display.