“FROM THE OLDER CHILD THE YOUNGER ONE LEARNS THE RIGHT WAY TO DO THINGS, AND FROM THE YOUNGER CHILD THE OLDER ONE LEARNS PATIENCE."
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We've started training for cross country, running a course down the path, around the car park, and around the courts. Every time we pass the start we get an ice block stick so we can keep count of how many times we have gone round. Sometimes we get six sticks!! We are learning to breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth and to use our arms to pull ourselves along.
What a good looking crew we are!!
We're having such fun with our new ipads!! Not only have we been experimenting with the funny photographic effects, but we have all made puppet shows on the ipads today! We have started training for Cross Country. Today we thought about how we felt and what we could see and hear whilst we were training, and came up with describing words to use in our writing. In writing at the moment we are learning to join two or more sentences together by using joining words like 'and', 'because' , 'also', and 'although'. These are called conjunctions. So, in our writing today we had to remember to use describing words and conjunctions, to make our stories more interesting.
This week the boys have gone for their first technology lesson with Mrs Bergersen,and the girls have started Science with Mrs Malcolm. We had great fun watching videos of people walking, running, dancing and even biking on custard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN2D5y-AxIY&safe=active&noredirect=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-wxnID2q4A We then got to make our own oobleck and have fun poking, prodding and squeezing it, feeling it change from solid to liquid in our hands. This week the boys' science group looked at bubbles, discovering that they all have to be filled with some kind of gas. We saw a picture of the biggest bubble in the world: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1204195/Lets-hope-doesnt-blow-Bubbleologist-Is-worlds-largestc-free-floating-bubble.html and watched some really cool YouTube clips of magic bubble shows: Bubbleman video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbqhqDzTonc You tube video Melody Yang – start at 40 secs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryGMG06sd38 Then we got down to the important business of making our own bubble mixture from Mrs Malcolm's super secret recipe. We had to work in teams of scientists, collect the correct ingredients in the right amounts, put them in in the right order and not mix them too much. They made great bubbles!! Our home-made pipe cleaner wands weren't so great, but luckily there were some plastic ones on hand. We had great fun out in the sun with our bubbles!! WET WEATHER DAYSBut its not so good on rainy days when we can't get out to play. "Thank goodness for Go Noodle", says Mrs Malcolm. We get to watch and copy the funny dances projected onto the white board, and get the wriggles out that way. This week, we also practised some yoga balances, and played the mirror game. We have to concentrate very hard on copying our partner's moves. Some people do some pretty tricky stuff!!
"Last week we made these shell sculptures so they can look beautiful in our school. We threaded shells onto the wire and we love them" By Room 3 children
This term, Room 3 and Room 2 are trying something different. Instead of always working in our class teams, On Wednesday afternoons, we are mixing it up, so the boys all work together and the girls all work together. First up, the girls are doing technology with Mrs Bergersen and the boys are doing science with Mrs Malcolm. After 5 weeks we will swap. Mrs M and the boys are learning what Scientists do, how they do it, and what it means to undertake scientific investigations. Here are some photos and explanations of what we have been doing for the first two weeks: Our first experiments were looking at the difference between solids and liquids. We watched a funny you tube video of scientists making, and walking on custard! Then we made oobleck out of cornflour and water, which is kind of solid when you squeeze it hard, but kind of liquid when you let go. Mrs Malcolm has never seen such a mess, and she was a bit worried about what the Mums and Dads would say about the corn flour all over the new uniforms and the dyed green hands!! This week our Science learning has been about the surface tension of water which allows small creatures to walk on water, and water droplets to stay round on a waterproof substance such and a lily leaf. We made race tracks from greaseproof paper, and had great fun racing a water drop around. Zoom, zoom, zoom!!
Not quite everybody, because Andrew is still away sick, but here we are, most of us have our new uniforms now
So lucky this week, when Kate brought Jayme's kitten Atom in to visit: he's SO cute! He wasn't feeling very cuddly at first, but we got to stroke him in his box. Then he came out to play. We looked carefully at Atom and did sketches of him. Some of us had noticed that he has one black ear and one white ear and three black dots on his nose. Here are some of our sketches:
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