As part of our topic lessons, we have learnt about which animals and insects are friends of the garden and which are foe. We then designed and made our own garden bugs. We created the shape using newspaper, then added mod rock and left to harden, before painting and adding details such as eyes and wings. We made lots of mess but had lots of fun!
We placed the biscuits and banana inside the ziplock bag, this represented eating. Added tablespoon of water-the saliva. We then crunched the food up inside the bag-chewing. Then mimicked the action of the stomach by adding acid-the orange juice. We discussed how the mixture moving over to the small intestine. We the squeezed the food down to the bottom so it imitated the small intestine becoming the large intestine, or colon. We then squeezed the Read more
This week we have been making and erupting volcanoes. We created a volcano using paper mache, painted them and investigated which mixture would create the best eruption. Here are some pictures of our week.
This afternoon, Year 5 enjoyed learning about pollination. We carried out a practical activity demonstrating how insects, such as bees, pollinate flowers using cheese puffs! After this, we created some fabulous work showing how pollination happens.
We worked hard to follow the directions on the treasure map. We had to follow directional language like forwards, backwards, left and right.
Following on from our planning last week, Maple have been writing their own stories about children who eat strange things. There were some fantastically written stories with excellent use of vocabulary and beautiful handwriting. From children who ate lego and became amazing builders, to children who ate clothes and became world-famous fashion designers, the children really have tried so hard with these stories. See below for a couple of examples of their work. I
We completed a science experiment by shaping plasticine to make a boat. We worked together to create a boat that would float on water.
During this half term in our Topic lessons we have been learning about volcanos. We have learnt lots of new words, some of which are quite hard to remember! We decided to put some actions to the words to try and help us remember what they mean. These are the actions we came up with:
October is Black History Month in the Uk. Today we learnt about why Black History is celebrated, and about significant people within black history, including Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Mary Seacole, Barack Obama and George Washington Cava. We then created our own fact files.
In Willows today we talked about Black History Month where we looked at famous black people that achieved great things! We discussed the meaning behind Black History Month and talked about how we shouldn’t discriminate because of the colour of someone’s skin. The children found it really interesting and loved learning about Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama and many more!