Friday 18 May 2018

A week of experiments!

Hello,

We have been doing lots of different experiments this week in Oak Class!
At the beginning of the week we looked at forces and thought about how different things move. We tested cars and balls going down ramps with different materials, we also thought about how bikes and scooters move and how this changes when there's a hill or slope.

The second experiment we did today was following up our original paper water lily test by changing the conditions. We tested a cardboard lily, a paper lily in hot water and a paper lily in milk. We found out that the cardboard lily still opened by was slower to get wet, the hot water soaked the paper and it eventually sunk, the water lily on the milk floated for a long time! We thought it might be because milk is thicker than water or it might have different things in it that water does not.

In English we have been look at explanations and we wrote our own explanation of 'How does a Hot Air Balloon fly?' We used time connectives like; First, next, finally and drew pictures with our explanations. We also learnt that hot air rises.

During Maths we have been looking at multiplication. We have been doing this by practising our repeated addition and also by using arrays. We are continuing to count in 2's to help us. Next week we will be looking at multiplication and doubles.

This week in PE we practised our May Day dance called 'buttered peas'. We are looking forward to performing this next Friday morning at 9:10 and we look forward to seeing some of you there.

Home learning this week is to design a poster for our 'Summer Sizzler'. This is to be done on the paper provided as it has to be a set size. All entries have to be back in school by Thursday 24th May. The summer sizzler will be taking place on the 30th June and we hope to see you there.

We have been working hard on our phonics this week, looking at real words and monster words, or made up words. We all enjoy playing a game called buried treasure and would like it play it at home aswell. Here is the link to the game:  https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html
Picnic on pluto and Dragons den are also good games to practise phonics.

Plop this week will be flying home with Ethan. Ethan works so hard in everything he does and always tries his best. Well done Ethan!
The star award this week is going to Olivia who is taking risk and applying her learning. Well done Olivia!

We hope you have a lovely weekend! And Good Luck if you are doing the Fun Run!

Reminders:
Wednesday 23rd - Walk to school from the common at 8:30
Thursday 24th at 2pm - Community Tea (May Day practise)
Friday 25th at 9:10 is May Day Celebrations - we hope to see you there!
Term end at the usual time of 3:15 on Friday the 24th May

Thank you!

Love Oak Class






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