British Science Week

Starry Night

As part of our 'Do you believe in magic?' Theme we have been learning about the techniques of Vincent van Gogh. We used his style by creating swirls to show movement and different line techniques.  We then decided to use Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from Harry Potter as inspiration for our own compositions.

Here is our finished work:

Do You Believe In Magic?

This year we are learning about magic and if you have anything that could go on the blog go and see Maisie or Mathew for help.

It's Electrifying!

Today we began our new Science topic of electricity. We used this cool online circuit maker to learn all about circuits and circuit diagrams.

Here's Camron's circuit:

Click here to have a go at making circuits

Food Chains

Today we have had lots of fun learning all about food chains and understanding the vocabulary of; producer, consumer, predator and prey.

Play the Deadly 60 food chains game below:

Bus Stop Division

This week in maths we are working on the short division method known as the 'bus stop' method.

Click here to have a go

Remembrance Day

Rainstorm Body Percussion

This week in music we have been creating the sound of a rainstorm using clicking, tapping and clapping our hands. Can you hear the thunder? 

We were really inspired by this video: 

Why do you think the conductor has such an important job? 

 How do you think we could improve our composition? Comment below!

Postcards from the Rainforest

In Geography, we have been learning some new Geographical vocabulary. We then used our new words to write post cards home as if we were botanists in the Amazon.

Here are some of our brilliant postcards!

Rainforests in a bottle

To finish off our Geography focus this week we had lots of fun making 'Rainforests' in bottle. We learnt that these are called terrariums and we are hoping they will help us find out exactly why it is so humid in the Amazon rainforest. 

What do you think the climate is like inside our mini rainforests? Explain why using your Science and Geography knowledge. 

COMMENT BELOW! 

Rainforest in a bottle

Insect art

We began by learning how to draw insects and we even made some of our own plastacene insects. 

We can show you some steps: First you make 3 balls the head, the thorax and the admin,

Then you stick them together to get your body,After that you place 6 legs and if you make a butterfly you need 2 big wings,Then you need to make 2 eyes and 2 ante eyes .

We used this new learning to help us draw detailed sketches of our chosen insect. Here are some examples of our work: 

How the leopard got it's spots

Funky Threes!

Learn this song to help you remember your 3x table!

Fun with coding!

Today, we have had a really fun morning using 2Code on Purple Mash. It has really helped us with debugging as some of the challenges are rather tricky!

2Code is a place on Purple mash where you can program things to say, move and do what you need it to on the screen.

There are levels on 2Code and we have started on Chimp and are working our way up! We need to tick on the list when we have completed our challenges. We love seeing our progress and we are hoping to make our way to Gibbon in no time!

Click on the Purple Mash link on the right to keep working on 2Code at home toO! 

Dazzling Diwali

Diwali is known as the Festival of Lights and our classroom was certainly filled with light on Wednesday afternoon. We have written invitations to our friends, inviting them to our exciting Diwali party.