Today we made some delicious Easter nests! We had great fun crushing the shredded week and making our own mixture. We even got to lick the spoon after – YUM!!!
Easter nests
Material shapes
In Science today we learnt about how to change the shape of objects made from different materials. We started our lesson by collecting three things we thought we could change the shape of and three things we couldn’t. We had a discussion about the properties of these materials. We then investigated which materials we could change by stretching, bending, squashing and twisting. We had great fun finding out!
Properties of materials
In our Science lesson today we learnt more about the properties of materials. We explored some different materials for ourselves to find out what properties they had. We focused on naming different materials but also describing them using scientific vocabulary. We focused on transparent, opaque, waterproof and flexible.
Our fire engines
Today Toucans have had a DT day! This week we have researched how toy vehicles moved. We then designed our own fire engines which we made today. We had to think really carefully about how to solve our own problems. There was a lot of perseverance needed!
We are very pleased with our fiished fire engines!
Arctic animal pictures
Today we have had a very arty afternoon! We have been using lots of different media to make arctic animal pictures.
Experiencing silence
Today in our RE lesson we experienced silence! We sat in silence first in our classroom and then outside. This is what it made us think of and how it made us feel:
We then thought about different places where we would be quiet and what we would think about in each place.
Amaya– in my bed!
Charlie– in school, in lesson time
Lilly Rose– the garden and my bedroom.
Mila– The forest
Pippa– In church it’s quiet so you can think about people and things.
This led to us focusing on why people are quiet in places of worship. We learnt about where people of different religions go to worship and why quiet is important in all of them.
Great Fire of London backgrounds
Today we did some artwork related to the Great Fire of London. We used watercolours to make the flames in the background and we are going to add silhouettes of the houses later in the week.
Willy’s Stories
In our story times over the last few weeks we have been enjoying stories by Anthony Browne. We love his detailed illustrations! Today in English we started reading Willy’s Stories.
We picked out things that we liked and started to think about what might happen next. Later in the week we are going to write our own version in the style of Willy’s Stories.
Video: Polar Explorers
Today Toucans visited the North Pole and the South Pole! Have a look at our video and see what we found out..
Of course we never really visited the Poles – they are too far away and too cold! In our Computing lessons we have been learning how to search for and save images. We have also been working on our acting and presentation skills.
We made our own reports and Mr Baddhan helped us to use the green screen to make it look like we really visited the North and South Pole. Do you think we did a good job?
Investigating paintings
Today in History we investigated paintings of the Great Fire of London and had a group discussion. We shared our thoughts, feelings, opinions and everything we had learnt. We had some great ideas!
