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 this term). We then made our own Giacometti style sculptures using garden wire and modroc. It was messy, but great fun, creating our sculptures using modroc to cover our wire shaped designs. In keeping with the Giacometti style, we painted our sculptures black.
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This afternoon, we had a whole class STEM lesson on forced perspective. First we explored what it was and then we tried it out for ourselves - taking photos or videos. The children really used their imaginations to explore forced perspective ideas and I was so proud of what they were able to achieve in this lesson. This week in science we began to look at the affect of exercise on our bodies through finding our pulse rate. We carried out a quick investigation to see if we all had the same resting pulse rate. The children had to take their pulse rates a total of 3 times and then we found the average of them. Following that, we planned an investigation to see if we could prove or disprove this statement, After exercising, your pulse rate will increase by 20 beats per minute. The children decided what exercise they were going to carry out and how long they were going to exercise for before taking their pulse rates. To make sure the results were accurate they planned to repeat the exercise and pulse rate recording 3 times and also make sure they had rested properly between each repetition. Whilst some children carried out their investigation outside, the rest of the class drew bar graphs to show the resting pulse rate information we had gathered earlier and then they swapped over. Below you can see us carrying out our investigations, taking pulse rates and then finding the averages. Here are some of the bar graphs showing our pulse rates: Great use of these learning gems:We have been writing our own lighthouse stories, based on the short animation 'The Lighthouse'. We used our DADWAVERS! skills as well as collected Ninja vocabulary to help us bring our stories to life on the page! We then used watercolours to illustrate our final draft. Our Published Work:Good use of these Learning Gems: |
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