Week beginning 25.04.16

This weeks blog is bought to you by Bethanie and Annabel

Maths

In maths this week, we have been working on compass points and coordinates. We have been using compass points to write instructions to find an object. Then we used a grid to lead the monkey to the banana but there were dangers in the way! Even though we had dangers we managed to get to the banana. by giving clear instructions using the compass points. We created our own maps and followed directions to create mystery pictures. 

Literacy    

In literacy this week, we have been writing and introduction and appearance paragraphs for our information texts about our chosen rainforest animals. We have also been using generalisers to make our writing more interesting. We have also been using connective devices  to  add details to sentences and explain why our animals have such special features. 

Science

In science this week we have been creating our very own experiments with cress seeds. For example, we put cress seeds into a plastic cup and  took something away from the seeds to see if they still grow. We are testing taking away water, soil, nutrients or sunlight but we made sure we had a fair test to measure it against. We even took away everything except sunlight and had just seeds! We predicted what would happen and we are very interested to see the results. 

Art

In art this week we have been painting with sponges to make a rainforest background. We though about how the rainforest had different layers such as the emergent layer, the canopy, the under-story and the forest floor and mixed different colours to match the amount of light the different forest layers would get. For the next few lessons we will be working on this picture as we build up different layers using different materials. Miss Palmer made a demonstration and some of our ones looked just like it!

In other news...

We have really enjoyed our first week of doing our daily mile and some of use can now even run for the whole fifteen minutes but all of us can feel ourselves getting fitter and improving every day. 

Also well done this week for Abria  for achieving her 10m swimming certificate and Hugo for being awarded wonderful work for his dedication and hard work in maths.