This week has been very busy and we have used all sorts of skills to enhance our topic “Street Detectives”. We have experienced lots of problem solving; learnt some interesting facts and had an enjoyable time sharing our learning.
As mathematicians, we have taken a traffic survey of
vehicles passing the school and then put this data into pictograms and answered
questions about our own findings.
As writers, we have written diary entries about the trip to the
church for Harvest assembly and then we wrote a diary entry from the point of
view of ‘The Troll’ underneath the bridge when the Billy Goats Gruff
trip-trapped over it using lots of emotion to express our feelings.
As designers, we found out about mechanisms in moving
pictures and created a short story book each about the three Billy Goats Gruff
using pivots, levers, sliders and wheel mechanisms. After we made our pictures, Class KM came to
visit and we retold and shared our stories with them using the mechanisms to
bring the books to life.
As story tellers, we used these story books to retell the
story to our parents and family at our wonderful share session where we also
enjoyed sharing a variety of other books.
There was a real buzz in the classroom and thank you to all the parents
and family that came and enjoyed sharing these special times with the children.
As artists, we have been finding out about the life of the
British Artist, Ian Cook and recreated artwork in his style using toy cars and
their wheels in the paint – no paintbrushes were used for these!! We loved using the wheels and were very proud
of our work. Thank you to Mrs Lucas who guided us through this process.
As scientists, we have taken part in the STEM challenge which
was to create a paper aeroplane and to find out which one travelled the
furthest. This was great fun but a bit
tricky too! We tried out lots of
different designs and we then went outside to try them out.
A really enjoyable and busy week in Class LH.
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