We enjoyed making our vehicles
Our finished Designs and Vehicles
The Soap Box Derby
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 Celebrating 70 years of Queen Elizabeth II on the throne TSM will be holding their own street party and activities on Wednesday 8th June.
Come to school in our 1950s theme, in red, white & blue or as a royal. Join in the fun by bringing in your own royal tea! Individual mini pack up for our street party!!
ResearchingBefore designing and making our own Soap Box Derby vehicles, we found out more about vehicles that move using gravity rather than an engine. We also looked at some Soap Box Derby designs that we liked. MakingWe explored how to use various tools and materials safely including: pistol saws, bench hooks, g-clamps, glue guns, PVA glue, sandpaper, scissors, wood and card.           We made photograph frames for YR to give us the chance to practise some of the sawing, measuring and gluing skills we will need to make our own vehicles. Our Finished Photograph Frames
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ACT 1Messing about in boatsBright Canary Yellow Gypsy CaravanIt takes all sorts to make a worldHome sweet homeKing of the roadTwenty yearsACT 2The Chase ChaseWe're the stoatsHe can't be stoppedLife of luxuryFriends Together Finale We had an amazing week in Thetford at the ThorpeWoodlands Activity centre.
Our Rooms
Our Activity Groups
We did so many fantastic activities with our groups!
Den BuildingWe really enjoyed the whole experience of going away for the week as a class.
Building Relationships                              Great use of these Learning Gems:
 In English we have been writing our own retelling of the short animation of Broken - the story of Rock, Paper and Scissors. We have been using our Vocabulary Ninja, DADWAVERS!, Show not Tell and Sentences of 3 skills to help us retell the story in our own words. After planning, drafting in our books and typing up and editing our work we then made them into picture books, which we have illustrated beautifully. We are so pleased with the finished results! Writing our books:Our finished illustrated picture books:
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In Art we have been exploring the work of the famous sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, comparing his unique style with that of Henry Moore (who we looked at earlier on in this unit). We then made our own Giacometti style sculptures using garden wire and modroc. CREATING OUR SCULPTURES:It was messy, but great fun, creating our sculptures using modroc to cover our wire shaped designs. OUR FINISHED WORK:
We painted our finished sculptures black once we they had dried. Good use of these Learning Gems:
We had a great day today sharing our favourite books and designing new front covers for them, Reading with YR and creating our own Reading dens to get cosy and read a book! 📖📚 What a lovely day!  Reading to our YR buddiesMaking reading densOur favourite books - new front coversRefreshing our class libraryOne of aims for World Book Day was to refresh our class library. We are really pleased with our class library but we did decide to tidy it up a bit, make our Reading Scrapbook (which is full of book recommendations) more prominent and to make more room for the front overs for all the books we've read this year! We also decide to introduce a 'We are currently reading..." display, we will be asking an adult in school and one of our table groups what book they are currently reading, providing a QR code if anyone would like to find out more about the book. We will change this every 2 weeks. 
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