We have been designing and making our own Viking Shields for us to use as props or decorations for our end of year Viking Play. Our finished designs and shieldsGood use of these Learning Gems: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. Creating our sculptures:It was messy, but great fun, creating our sculptures using modroc to cover our wire shaped designs. Painting our finished sculptures:In keeping with the Giacometti style, we painted our sculptures black. Our finished work:Great use of these Learning Gems: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: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. Great use of these learning gems:
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: |
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