This week saw Barlow class go to a forensic workshop at Felixstowe Academy on Tuesday morning where they completed a science workshops to solve a crime !!!! We had a great morning and tried out the new super lab !!!!!! After carrying out three different workshops about unknown powers, ink analysis and finger prints the crime was solved !!! Mathematics was very challenging this week and we have learnt to find common multiples and factors and use this knowledge to complete Venn Diagrams and sort the information into Carroll Diagrams. Then on Thursday we had lots of fun running around learning new games and testing our fitness and energy levels.
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We have had a brilliant week in Barlow!!!!!!! In science we have started a new topic all about materials. we did a really fun experiment with ice cubes. We coated each ice cube with a different type of foam. We made types of foam from egg white., whipping cream and marshmallows. We predicted which foam would be the best insulator. We discovered that egg is the best insulator and marshmallows let our cubes melt when we placed them in the oven. This week has begun with a topic based week in mathematics. The children have used and applied mathematical skills to solve real life problems. They used methods to code crack and plot findings following co-ordinates. They drew Carroll Diagrams to help sort properties and worked out fractions of amounts. All children can now read place value of numbers up to a 9 digit number and work with those numbers to problem solve.
In Literacy we are developing our story writing skills. We have written excellent descriptions of characters including dragons extending our use of descriptive language of appearance and adverbs and powerful verbs to describe movement. The challenge of how character's interact and how they would describe each other is the next challenge. Science is really exciting with experiments about materials and how they can be used to insulate ice cream we put in the fridge maybe baked Alaska will be on the menu !!!!!!! History continues to teach us all about The Anglo-Saxons. We have made our own timeline on History In Britain now displayed in our classroom !!! This is to help us understand and place the Anglo-Saxons at the right place within history. Just to let tell you know how we have begun the second half of the Autumn term. We have begun our new topic of Dragons with some interesting description work and settings while we read lots of interesting dragon stories with a focus on the special dragon George meets when he founds a golden egg. We have completed our topic on planets which we all thoroughly enjoyed !!!! Science moves on to learning about materials in our material World topic. Mathematics challenges continue with learning about different calculation methods. This week's focus is multiplication of 4 digit numbers and a challenge of investigating multiples and factors and discovering common multiples and common factors. Our History topic of Anglo Saxons also begins. Mrs MacFarlane
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