We looked at which side was the front and which was the back. We found out where the veins and arteries went out of and into the heart and felt the difference between the right and left sides of it too.
After researching the heart last week, we went a bit further this week and explored pigs' hearts. The children were all very brave with looking at and touching the hearts and some even had a chance to cut them open and see the inner workings of the chambers! We looked at which side was the front and which was the back. We found out where the veins and arteries went out of and into the heart and felt the difference between the right and left sides of it too. Using the information we had gained from looking at the pigs' hearts as well as all the information we had learned doing other activities about the heart, the following day, we wrote a job description for the heart, detailing what it needed to do.
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Take a Look at Our Amazing Finished Poems and Artwork!Good use of these Learning Gems:This week we started a new topic in maths about ratio and proportion. First the children used the language of ratio, moving around the room to count the number of different colour counters in pots and then recorded it in their books using the stem sentence of 'there are _____ counters for every _____ counters'. Following this, the children moved on to looking at the relationship between fractions and ratio. They noticed that the total of the ratio would be the denominator in a fraction. Finally, this week they started using the ratio symbol (:). Great use of these learning gems:This week, it was the turn of group A to experiment with how light rays act differently when going through water and glass. The children had lots of fun with this activity and I was pleased to see how accurate some of them were being (marking the spot where their glass needed to go in order to get the light rays to act in the way they wanted!). great use of these learning gems:In Art we have been working with clay and designing and creating our own Viking amulets. We will be wearing these for our mini production Viking play.
Our Finished Viking Amulets - Ready for PaintingOur Beautiful Painted Amulets!Good 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 and DADWAVERS! skills to help us retell the story in our own words. After planning, drafting and editing our work we then completed our final draft and completed our picture books. We are so please with the finished results! Here are a few examples:
Great use of these Learning Gems:This week was the end of our topic on light and I asked the children to present what they had learnt in an expert video. It was great to see how the children chose to present their learning, using models and pictures to help them. There was a lot of nerves during their presentations but most were really pleased with themselves after they had done it! We hope you enjoy watching the examples below: In STEM this week, we continued with the theme of light and experimented with how light rays travel through water and glass. The children made videos of their own experiments.
Great use of these learning gems:As part of our maths lesson today, I set the children an 'I see reasoning' challenge of finding how many ways they could make fractions which had a decimal equivalent of between 0.5 and 0.75. The children had worked on using division to find the decimal equivalents of fractions during lockdown earlier in the year and it was great to see them working confidently to use the short division method to find the decimal equivalents. Great use of these learning gems:Like last week's STEM, this week the children used pictures created by Vincent Bal to make their own shadow pictures. They were all inspired by the range of equipment they had to create some imaginative pictures! Great use of this learning gem:In English we have been writing our own retelling of the short animation of Broken - the story of Rock, Paper and Scissors. We looked at how the story was broken into scenes and when creating our first draft we tried to include different elements of DADWAVERS! for the scenes, making sure our sentences started in different ways. EditingOnce we had written a first draft we worked hard to edit our work using the 3 different Editing Stations. We spend time at each Editing Station to help us focus our editing, but Mrs Matthews gave us each one Editing Station that we individually need to especially focus on. PublishingNow we have finished editing the first draft we are working on creating our finished picture books. Watch this space for the finished books! Good use of these Learning Gems: |
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