No school today because of the snow. I have made a home learning grid to keep you busy on this wintry day!
Hope you have a cosy day at home!
Any work done or pictures of you having fun in the snow can be emailed to me at gw21leaskcaroline@glow.sch.uk or feel free to share them on our Team. I made a channel for Snow Day photos!
In Art p5 have been using Styrofoam to create a snowman block print.
First we came up with an image of a snowman then transferred it onto the Styrofoam, pressing into it with a pencil to create an indent. We then had a block which could be used to produce many prints and make Christmas cards.
The class really enjoyed this project, learning about the process of rolling, inking, and printing.
Here are the first prints they took from their block….😍
This week pupils visited Taing House to spread some festive cheer and do some arts and crafts with the visitors there. We had a great time. Thank you for having us!
In music we have been learning about the English composer, Gustav Holst, who composed a piece of music called The Planets Suite. There are seven movements in the piece, each reflecting the characteristics of a planet. We listened to the first movement called Mars – Bringer of War which is a very powerful piece of music. We thought about how it made us feel and wrote down some words to describe it. We thought if it was a colour, what colour would it be? If it was a shape, what shape would it be? And, if it was a line, how would we describe it? We then created a picture to show what the music made us think of. It was amazing to see how differently we all thought about the music. It evoked a range of feelings, thoughts and emotions.
Here are a range of examples across both P5 classes.
Later in the week we used our fruit to measure the distance of the planets from the sun. We used measure and scale to illustrate this.
This week we have been learning more about the planets. To give pupils a better idea of the difference in the sizes of the planets, we used fruit as a comparison. The pupils has a great time guessing which fruit represented which planet.
We were very grateful to our parent volunteer for coming to speak to the pupils about maths and how important and useful it was in his job. The pupils got to look at some equipment and asked lots of questions about his career and passion for maths. Thank you very much for visiting!
We have had an eventful and exciting week celebrating numeracy. We completed a whole school, Christmas themed activity to help our elves get ready in time for Christmas. P5’s task was to create a stable shelf to hold toys. We first tried a basic design, improved this design, planned, drew detailed diagrams and tested our finished shelves with toys. We used problem solving skills, considered balance and weight distributions.
REMINDER
Swimming starts tomorrow (Friday 24th November) so please remember to bring your swimming kit to school. Swimming will run on the following dates:
24th November
1st December
8th December
15th December
22nd December
12th January.
We also have PE on Fridays so please wear comfy clothes and shows for this aswell.
We have learned a little bit about the musical genre of Jazz this term and we discovered that the very first piece of music to be played in space during the Apollo 10 mission was a song from the Big Band and Swing era called ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ by Frank Sinatra.
We learned that jazz music actually evolved from folk music which is traditional songs passed down from generation to generation.
One traditional folk song we have learned recently is ‘Obwisana’ from Ghana, in Africa. It is traditionally sung by children in a circle passing rocks in time with the pulse of the music. We adapted this by using drum sticks to keep the pulse and we also composed our own four beat patterns. Our performance takes the form of (A) the song, (B) stick pattern 1, (A) song, (C) stick pattern 2,(A) song, (D) own stick pattern,)A) song and the ‘coda’ which we have learned is an Italian term used to describe the ending in a musical piece.
