World Book Day

For World Book Day we came to school dressed as one of our favourite characters. We enjoyed completing many book related activities including making bookmarks, making book character masks and completing a book scavenger hunt. We all shared our favourite books too.

  

 

World Book Day Dance

To continue celebrating World Book Day we had a wonderful dance teacher come into school to help us create a dance to retell the story of 'Charlie and Chocolate Factory'. We searched for the golden tickets, found them and celebrated. Finally, we danced our way around the chocolate factory.

    

 

Geography - What is life like in the Arctic?

We have been looking at atlases, globes and Google Earth to locate the Arctic Circle. We have learnt about the seasons of the Arctic and compared them to the UK. We have learnt about physical features and identified some physical features of the Arctic on photos. We have also learnt about human features and located some of them on photos too. Finally, we compared London to Sisimiut, a town in Greenland. We realised there are lots of similarities as well as differences. We thought about Carlisle when we talked about this as well.

    

 

Science

In Science, we have been learning about 'Growing Plants'. We started by labelling a plant, thinking about the different parts and their jobs. We then investigated where you would find a seed by cutting some apples in half. After that, we planted some cress seeds and learnt about germination.

    

The cress seeds took a long time to germinate, longer than it said on the packet. Therefore, we decided to carry out a fair test to see if carrot seeds germinate quicker in the warmth to carrot seeds growing in the 'chilly' classroom.

  

We discovered that carrot seeds germinated more quickly in the warmth. We then thought about the correct conditions for growing plants so we are in the process of carrying out another fair test to see how sunlight and water affect plant growth. Some seeds have water and sunlight. Some seeds have water and no sunlight. Some seeds have sunlight and no water. Some seeds have neither. We have made some interesting predictions.

    

The children have been out on a walk to find out what flowers have grown from bulbs. They are also observing bulb growth in the classroom. They have been very busy scientists!

 

Art

In Art we have been studying the work of Henri Rousseau. We have learnt about the key features of his work and from this, we have painted and drawn pictures of plants following his ideas.

    

We then learnt how he painted animals in his work and from this, we have created animal masks using a collage as well as drawing to make our product.

    

We have learnt how Rousseau sometimes painted images that he had never seen. We were inspired by this to paint space. We experimented with different paints, brushes and effects, we then used oil pastels for the planets. We are very proud of our work.