Week 7

This week we are looking very carefully at the scientific process, and creating our own experiments. We have also had a lot of fun designing our own pop-up cards. This skill will come in very hand over the next few weeks. For our inquiry we have been looking at 'Thinking'. The 3 strategies that we are working on are:  1. Ask questions to get more information. 2. Explain my point of view. 3. Explain others' points of view. We have looked at the 'true story of the 3 little pigs' from the wolf's point of view. We have learned that it's ok to have different opinions, and we should try and understand what other people think.

Writing Time

On Monday at writing time we did a science experiment where we made oobleck. We then used lots of words to describe it. 

Pirate Song

Week 6

This week one of our popular action stations is making our own triangle blocks out of card. We need to make a structure that can hold as many books as possible. We are discovering a lot about stability and what shapes are the strongest. In response to our 'spring garden' poem from last week we are following instructions to make our very own spring garden. We are also adding music to poems and stories. We are all so excited about Friday. First of all its explore a joy day! Check out the kids own blogs for their reflections on the taster day. The second exciting thing is that we are on assembly. So assemble the crew and board the ship to the activity center for a great assembly! Arrrgghhh me hearties. 

Creating a structure with the blocks 

Experimenting with a winter garden and a spring garden! 

Writing about creating the structure

A great musical rendition of 'daisy chain' 

Week 5

This week Mrs Godby is away at her son's graduation and we are lucky to have Mrs Ah-Wan in our class. She is helping us to learn about the scientific process. In maths we are learning about area - that is how you measure the space a shape takes up. We are really enjoying giving feedback with our reading and writing, and are getting better at using the feedback to make our work better. We are also very excited for 'Explore a Joy' day on Friday. Some of our class had a lot of fun at the colour rush on Sunday!! 

Wow science is fun!

On Tuesday we were lucky enough to have Mrs Young come into the class and show us some very exciting science experiments. We all loved the Diet Coke and Mentos one where the foam bursts out of the bottle. We hope to carry on doing more experiments over the next few weeks. A big thank you to Mrs Young for giving up her time to show us such wonderful, exciting experiments.

Firefighters to the rescue!

On Monday we had the Fire Department in telling us about what they do. All the children got to have a look at the inside of the fire engine and squirt the hose!

Week 4

We have another busy and exciting week ahead. We are finishing using the Robotics and with some expert help we managed to get them moving most of the time! 

We are writing a blog post plan and will publish what we managed to achieve using the robotics.

As it is Guy Faulks on Thursday we making fireworks pictures. We have looked at fireworks displays to help us to draw the right colours and shapes.