Our Summer Journey
DT
This half term we are making bread! This links to our English text of The Bakers Boy and the Great Fire of London. Our hook lesson was following instructions with our partner to make our own playdough, we then had to evaluate if it was successful or not. We had a fabulous time!
Hook for History and English.
Today we got immersed in our learning by having our hook day. We had to be creative and use our imaginations and our senses! We had a drama session in the hall where we had to act out certain points of the Great Fire of London and had to work together to try and put the fire out. We made stick houses and then used water colour paints to create our backgrounds.
We had to imagine how we would have felt and what we would have seen, heard, smelt and felt.
Science
For our Science hook we had four experiments/investigations to explore.
1 - Can you build a bridge for the cars to travel across (choosing the right material for the right purpose)
2 - Can you build a raft for the people and the animals to get across the water.
3 - Can you sort the materials into magnetic and non magnetic
4 - Can you sort the objects in the basket and can you group guess how you sorted them
We used this as our cold knowledge harvest.
Our second lesson was learning about materials, we played a game where we were not allowed to look inside the box and had to describe what we thought the object was and what material it was made of. Then we revealed the objects and sorted them by material.
Design Technology
We made bread! We needed to follow the instructions in our group and make our very own bread. We had to measure the ingredients, knead the dough and shape it into a bread roll. We really enjoyed pretending to be bakers from the Great Fire of London.
Science
Making buckets! As part of our 'everyday materials' learning we made a link to the Great Fire of London. We had to make buckets with a handle that was strong enough to carry water at least once to put out the fire. We tested our buckets in our outdoor challenge before we evaluated them.
Maths
As part of our position and direction learning we had to give and follow instructions. We did this as a whole class and in partners. We had to move forwards, backwards, left and right. We challenged ourselves further and had to turn left and right - just moving our bodies not taking a step in the direction.
Sports week.
For our last week of term we have been embarking on sports week. We have learnt about the history behind the Olympics and Paralympics, where are when they have been hosted, the events that take place and much more.
We learnt how they say hello in Japan, Norway, Brazil, Kenya and Australia.
We made some Olympic torches to celebrate the opening of our sports week!
We worked in partners to identify where the countries were on the world map. We stuck on the flags to show where they were in the world. We drew a circle around the United Kingdom to show where we are too.
our challenge was to use coloured icing to recreate the flags of the country we were playing as in our sports week Olympics!
we created landscapes from our countries using the oil pastels. This was us recreating a Japanese landscape.
one of our sports was Kurling. We played it two different ways. It was tricky to hit the target!
we also had a parachute challenge, it was hard work getting all the balls off! Then there was a race - each team had to collect all of the balls and put them in the right coloured bucket ... the quicker you were the better your time!
Our half termly homework and topic web. What can you do at home to extend your learning?
Summer 2
Math
In math we are learning to tell the time. We practiced o'clock using the individual clocks. After this we were able to draw the long minute hand and the short hour hand by making the time, looking at the hands and adding them to a clock face.
Our homework challenge
I received some lovely letters about your holidays. I can see you were thinking hard.