Class 3

In our History lesson, we learnt more about the Ancient Egyptian mummification process. We used a tomato to represent the human body and scooped out the seeds (which represented internal organs), before covering the inside of the tomato in salt to preserve it, just like the Egyptians did to…

We have been investigating shadows in Science. We positioned the torch at different distances from a whiteboard and marked where the shadow reached. We drew conclusions from our investigation that the further away the torch was, the bigger the shadow.  We will continue to investigate shadows next…

This morning we learnt a Harvest poem and creating art work to share at the Harvest service as we read the poem next week in church. 

 

We have enjoyed reading newspapers today! Not just to keep up to date with the latest world news, but to see how the layout is different to a fiction book. Next week we will study this further, before becoming reporters ourselves and writing a newspaper article from the 1922 discovery of…

In Science we have been discussing how the sun is a natural light source. We created an investigation to explore how we can be protected from UV Rays. We had UV beads which started off as white in the classroom. When we went outside, they changed to pink, purple or yellow due…

We have been looking at how the Egyptians communicated through hieroglyphics. We had to crack the coded message we were given before using the hieroglyphic alphabet to write our own names. We all agreed that even though it was fun, our English alphabet is much easier! 
 

We have started our Art and Design unit on Egyptian Art. 

We have created a background using tea, paint and paper. We have then analysed Egyptian images and placed them creatively on the backgrounds in our sketch books. We have used pencil, crayons and oil pastels. We experimented with…

This afternoon we completed activities based on Roald Dahl books. We made ourselves human centipedes to race and follow wiggly lines, played ‘George’ says following actions that may have happened when George created his marvellous medicine, competed in a ‘hammer throw’, a Roald Dahl alphabet quiz…

Today the children played the minims, noticing how the pitch goes higher as they go up the staff. 
 

We have started our new Science topic all about light. 

We have investigated how light behaves on different materials. We loved having a dark classroom and the torches out. 

Our new English text is a story set in another culture. So far we have made a prediction about what may happen using clues from the front cover and blurb, created a story mountain to tell the story and contrasted the English version with the Egyptian one. We are excited to read more next week. 
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For our first PE lesson, we took our heart rate before exercise then after different types of exertion such as yoga, a jog and a sprint. We compared how it increased after some exercise and decreased after others and discussed why this was.