Last week we looked at Starry Night – a famous painting by Van Gogh. We looked at the swirling technique which he used to create the picture and used this to create a whole class replica of the painting. We also used oil pastels to create the foreground.
We are very proud of the finished display!
Yesterday we began to learn about the phases of the moon. We spoke about what we already know about the moon and realised that it does not always appear the same.
We watched a video on TigTag which demonstrated how the moon’s orbit around the Earth means that it appears to change over a lunar month (28 days.) The appearance of the moon changes dependent on the position of the moon, the sun and the Earth. This is because we see the Earth when sunlight reflects off of it. We learned that there are 8 different phases which the moon passes through.
We then got into pairs or groups of three and created a model to show the phases using a creative medium – oreos!
We had to problem solve to figure out which stage happens when. When we were finished they looked like this:
We even managed to wait until after assembly to eat them!!
Today we had a visitor to class. Mr Rose came in to talk to us and the 5B about Space. He will be coming in each week. We loved learning lots of facts from him and had lots of interesting questions to ask him as well.
Here are some facts we learned:
We can’t wait to find out more about the solar system next week!
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