Science Challenge

Mrs Wood has put together 4 circuits and challenged the children to work out which are connected correctly and which are not.

Can you work out which circuits are connected correctly and which are not?

The children also had to record the reasons why each circuit was right or wrong.

The other challenge was that they had to do this all in silence!

Homework Menu 3/5/13

• Make up some problems with weight or length, for example, how much does 1 tomato weigh, how much does 4 tomatoes weigh? How long is the sofa, how long would 6 sofas be?
• Write an acrostic poem about the Great fire of London

                    F                         L
                    I                         o
                    R                        n
                    E                        d
                                              o
                                              n

• Make a model of St.Paul's cathedral which is in London.
• Make a map of London, showing the river Thames, Pudding lane, London bridge, the tower of London.

Have fun!

Homework Menu 26/4/13

•  Create a poster to remind people what to do in an emergency.
• Tea stain some paper and write a diary entry as if you are Samuel Pepys.
• Record some halves of shapes and number.
• Find out about how the fire service started after the Great fire of London.

Have fun!

Week 2 of our Great Fire topic

This week we had 2 main jobs to complete about our topic.

First we painted a scene from London during the fire.

Most of our paintings are not finished because we were being so careful with our drawings and detailed painting.

The second job was to write a diary entry as if we were the baker that started the fire in 1666.

Next week we will write another 2 diary entries to carry on the story of what happened.

Building Learning Power

Today for our best me Friday, we have been practising our painting skills using fine paintbrushes.

Whilst doing this, we have been practising many of our building learning power muscles.

These include:

Absorption
Managing distractions
Perseverance
Imagining
Interdependence
Collaboration
Imitation

These paintings are going to be used to help us learn our number sequences. We will be putting them up in the corridor so we can practise counting as we walk to and from places!

TEAM - Together Everyone Achieves More!

Today we are finding out whether we achieve more by working as a team.

We are repeating our challenge from yesterday, but this time in groups of 3.

Here are some pictures of teams making the tallest tower.

The following children were working so well by collaborating.... our focus for BLP this term...
Curtis, Tyler and Trey
Kimberlite, Leigh and Ellie-Mai
Harry, Jack A and Holly
Kaitlyn, Pati and Taylor
Brandon, Jaiden and Bailey.

Here are our completed towers!

The structures that stayed standing up for 1minute were made by;

Thomas, Harley and Jack F - 21cm
Brandon, Jaiden and Bailey -72cm
Leigh, Kimberlie and Ellie-Mai - 60cm
Leo, Alex and Ryan - 57cm

This means our winners today were Brandon, Jaiden and Bailey. Well done boys!

Everyone agreed that Mrs Naylor is right, we really do achieve more when we work together!

Morning Meeting Challenge

This week we are continuing our work on TEAM - together everyone achieves more!

We decided we needed to investigate whether this idea actually works.

So, Miss Rogan set the class the challenge of making the tallest tower that stands for 1 minute on it's own, using art straws!

Here are some pictures of the attempts!

These are the towers that stood on their own!
We decided to measure them using a ruler to find out which was the tallest. Here are the measurements.

Bailey 18cm
Harley 45cm
Alex 47cm
Tyler 30cm

And the winner is..... Ellie-Mai!

Her tower was 53cm tall and stood on it's own for 1 minute!

Tomorrow, we will repeat the challenge but this time we will work as a team to see if more people can make a tower that stands for 1 minute.

We will keep you posted!