In our DT lessons this week, we’ve been evaluating existing products to gain some inspiration and ideas for our own designs.
We’ve also begun to explore our ideas using TechCard and next we’ll be drawing our final designs.
The design criteria for our go kart prototypes:
– move by rolling on wheels
– have a steering system
– a platform to sit on and not fall out of
– a braking system (extra, aspirational challenge)
In our lesson this week, we talked about beauty and the perception of it.
We discussed how the media push an idea of what beautiful is and that images you see in the media aren’t always what they seem. We looked at some images that had been edited before they were published and spotted the differences from the original photos. The differences were quite scary!
I’m very sorry for the delay in posting. Here are the words and rule for this week’s spellings.
We are learning to spell words beginning with the anti and inter prefix.
Here are the words we would like you to learn at home. Could you write each word into a sentence?
antiseptic
anticlockwise
antisocial
antibiotic
antibacterial
antifreeze
international
interrupt
interact
interfere
This morning, we’ve been recapping what we know about fractions.
Ask your child about the following things:
numerator, denominator, equal parts, unit fractions, non-unit fractions
We’ve been busy writing a story inspired by Michael Rosen’s poem, Chocolate Cake.
The children have worked really hard and produced some of their best writing this year.
In today’s lesson, they edited their writing for mistakes and improved it. They then chose whether to present it by writing it up on paper with illustrations or typing it using a word processing app on an iPad.
In our living and Learning lessons we’ve been learning about medicine and drugs.
We learned that it can be very dangerous if you take medicine that isn’t for you. We also learned that it’s really important that you take the correct amount (dose) of your medicine. Because, if you don’t, it may make you ill. We also talked about how and where to store medicines safely so that they’re out of reach of small children.
We learned about all the information that you can find on a medicine label:
Finally, we looked at some medicine safety scenarios and considered what the person should do in that scenario and how they should stay safe.
Things to do at home:
When you have some medicine for your child, look at the label and talk about the information on there.
In our science lessons the past couple of weeks, we’ve been investigating which is the strongest magnet in our big box of magnets!
We talked about and decided how we could investigate this question. Some of us decided to see how many paperclips a magnet could pick up. Others decided to see how many pieces of paper they could put between a magnet and a paperclip.
We thought about which variable would change (the magnets) and which would need to be the same (the type and size of paperclip and paper). We then Co ducted the experiments and recorded our results.
A conclusion we made was that it wasn’t the largest magnet that was the strongest.
In our computing lessons, we’ve been creating a game using Scratch Jr.
The children had to use decomposition to break the task into smaller more manageable steps . They then worked through each step, using logical reasoning to solve problems and fix bugs.
They were then able to challenge themselves in lots of different ways. For example, by adding different levels, tinkering to make their games the correct difficulty, developing it into a two player game.
We had an absolute blast on Wednesday and Thursday at Herd Farm.
Of course, it wasn’t the same as staying over for two days but a few weeks ago we weren’t expecting we’d be able to go at all. A big thank you to Mrs Weekes for making it happen! And a big thanks to Herd Farm for letting us be their first school visit in over a year!
We were all really impressed with the children and it was lovely to see them having so much fun over the two days. They showed off so many different attributes: courage, resilience, nerve, teamwork, empathy. There were so many highlights from the two days. Here’s a selection of photos from the trip…
In our art lesson this afternoon, we created our own pixel art. Do you recognise any of the characters in the photos? We had to use patience to create our pieces. We also had to experiment with shading and the direction of the shading to get subtle differences in colour and texture.
