The stars in the night sky inspired Van Gogh's beautiful painting. Click on the picture to have another look at his museum website and to listen to the song. 

Click here to try the magic swirling trick we looked at.

We looked carefully at the features of the painting and experimented with techniques to get these swirling effects. Painting was rather tricky so we are going to try oil pastels next. Our work will be displayed in class.

We have finished editing and writing our one versions of George's Marvelous Medicine and we are very proud of ourselves. Most people had very original ideas which were well explained. 
We made shadow puppets of the characters and worked in groups to act a story. One person had to read the story and the others acted with the puppets. These have been filmed and we hope to have them up here soon. Here are some photos for now.

After tracking the key events and the development of the characters we felt we had a good understanding of how Roald Dahl writes a story. We are planning and writing our own version- see the files below for the planning template and our shared writing of an opening using one of our plans.

We have had a very busy week starting our topic on space with the fab Open Morning ( photos on the home page). You took/ found awesome photos of shadows for homework ( featured below) and explained well how you had made them. We found out where Earth is in the Solar system and why we can live here. We research about the sun and found out that it is not just a source of light.

In Literacy we have been reading George's Marvellous medicine, tracking the development of the characters and predicting consequences of events. Check out the tracker posters we have in the classroom. We read and performed dialogue between George and Grandma- some of us were very expressive and some of us made up alternative responses.