What a truly brilliant and exciting beginning to the Summer term!
We were so lucky to have a ‘Crazy Chemist’ visit us. She taught us all about PH scale and which colour we should be looking for to see if liquids are safe. Can you remember which one it was?
We wore safety goggles and tested 6 different liquids to determine whether they were acids, alkalines or completely neutral and therefore safe for us.
However, the most exciting part was getting to make our own slime! We stirred and stirred, mixing until we didn’t think we could mix any more. Our little pots went from a liquid to sticky and attached to all of our fingers!
In Maths, we have begun to look at fractions, recognising that the whole is the total (the whole pizza) and a part is a fraction of this amount (a slice of pizza, regardless of size). We are awesome at finding a half of something and have begun to look at quarters. We share the total amount (whole) between four boxes, making sure each box gets an equal amount. Then we count just 1 of those boxes. Can you tell someone at home what the top and bottom numbers of the fraction are called?
In English, we have begun our Pirate adventure! We were asked to help find the gruesome, scariest pirate of all. We wrote detailed descriptions including expanded noun phrases to help with the search, remembering that the more information we gave the easier it would be to find them.
Our puppets are coming along beautifully. We have now painted the heads and begun to sew their outfits! We cannot wait for you to see them!
This term we are combining our Music and Computing. We listened to some amazing music written by Gustav Holst and were brilliant at giving our opinions, whether positive or negative. This week we looked at creating a rhythm with a partner. We used percussion instruments initially and them continued to create upon Chrome Music Lab online. I know the children thoroughly enjoyed themselves as they have all asked if we can do that lesson again!
Thank you all for your support in the transition to Emile for spellings. We really hope this will encourage the children to learn them each week.
