The children had an amazing time on Tuesday as they travelled from room to room discovering new information about food, from packaging and slogans to smells and tastes. The photos below tell the story of the afternoon, quite well.
This week we have begun to read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. The children have been loving the story and listen carefully to every word! We have had a busy week, thinking about the description of the chocolate factory, and then using these as a basis for drawing our own factories and then describing them with our own words. The children have done a fabulous job using a wide variety of adjectives to compose exciting sentences. We have also acted out scenes from the story featuring Grandpa Joe and Charlie. See below for a couple of performances. We were so lucky to be able to welcome the explorer Henry Evans into school on Thursday morning. Henry came in and gave the children a fantastic talk about his expeditions. The children asked some fabulous questions and we were very proud of them!
On Thursday we were thrilled to have the author Neil Griffiths come to visit us. He shared a couple of stories with us, and the children also had a chance to join in to tell the stories. Have a look at some of our photos! This week in Literacy, we have been taking an opportunity to develop links between our topic of Adventurers and Explorers and our writing. We have organised a fact sheet about Neil Armstrong, in which we had to think about where information belongs on a fact sheet and how our subheadings need to match our text. We then took some sentences and information about Zheng He and tried to improve our sentences. Finally we chose subheadings and information about James Cook, taken from the homework we previously did, work in class and we also did a little bit of research on the internet in order to designed our own fact sheet.
The children worked really hard on this, and some of the fact sheets were very interesting. This week we have continued our experiments and have begun to think about making a test 'fair', and how we could only change one thing each time we did an experiment. I was impressed by the children who used all of their scientific knowledge to make logical predictions about what would happen.
Our experiment was to see out of three different sized cones, which would travel the highest when launched by our bottle. Here were some of the predictions: Smallest cone - this might go the highest as it was the lightest. Medium cone - this might go the highest as it was a medium size, not too small and not too heavy. Big cone - this might go the highest as it had more space to catch the air coming out of the bottle. We discovered that in fact the smallest cone travelled the highest and it didn't matter who was hitting the bottle, the results remained the same. Well Done Giraffes - Great Science This week we have looked again at the styles of Oliver Jeffers and have had the chance to write short comic strips in this style. The children worked hard on the illustrations and trying to keep the wording to a minimum whilst still attempting to tell a lovely story.
I was thrilled to see their hard work! |
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