Wonderful Wisley
First thing in the morning, we set off from school to hit the road on the coach to Wisley gardens. Although there was traffic, we got there in a good amount of time and it didn’t seem to take us too long. When we got to there it was pretty soggy. Yes it was wet, annoyingly, but we had much fun looking at many different types of plants and trees. The two classes split up and went their separate ways to focus on the similarities and differences between the temperate biome and the rainforest biome. We explored the temperate forest (a normal forest to us) to look at the shapes of the leaves as well as the height of the trees and their positioning. Lots of our classmates could make a whistling sound using grass, which was really hard for us.
Did you know:
The roots of trees spread as wide as the trees canopy.
After lunch, we got to go into the glass house, we had fun the plants with tropical colours. I wish we could all explore it again, to find more about this lovely environment. While we were in their we compare the tropical plants to the plants we had seen outside, we noticed that the leaves in the rainforest biome were much bigger than those outside in the temperate forest they also looked like they were made from plastic (they weren’t).
Written by Bobby and Tom (edited by Mrs Ray)
Maze games on Scratch
In Computing, we are coding our own maze games using the programming language Scratch. In the first lesson, we learnt about a flow of code and played an example maze game. In the next lesson, we learnt about how to code a maze game and started to create our own. On the next week we kept trying to improve our maze games and make sure it worked. Some people have created a second lair of their maze. They were all really cool to play and everyone was proud of the game.
By, Andres,Florence,Lucy,Maiya,Tilly
Collages
In art we are learning about collages and in particular Elizabeth st Hilaire pieces. We looked at some of her most famous pieces and saying what we liked and disliked about them.
In the second lesson we looked at some bird pictures and chose one draw an outline for our collages. It took a couple of tries to make a perfect outline.
In the third lesson we did the under painting. We used acrylic paint to create a more realistic bird. We did lots and lots of colour mixing to achieve a perfect shade. We can’t wait to collage our master pieces.
The fourth and last we had to rip up tiny pieces of coloured paper and stick them on our bird. The ripped affect really gives the illusion of feathers. Over all they all turned out great.
Finally, we applied the birds to a background and made a frame to present the birds.
By, Andres, Florence, Lucy, Maiya and Tilly.
Badminton
In our first lesson we played a game where we had to throw the shuttlecock over the net and whoever has the most shuttlecocks on their side lost. In our second lesson we did some returning, which means returning your partner’s serve. Then in the next lesson, we learnt a backhand return. In the next lesson, we practiced a rally and used all of our skills in a little game. Although it was tricky, we enjoyed learning the skills to play badminton.
By Andres, Florence, Lucy, Maiya and Tilly
Poems in English and guided reading
For this Learning Journey we are reading a poem collection called ‘Belonging Street’ but mainly “Extinct” by Mandy Coe. In Guided Reading, we read a poem called “New Foal” by Ted Hughes to help us with the main poem. At the end of the week, in English, we wrote a haiku about an endangered animal. A haiku is a poem with 17 syllables in total, in the pattern of 5 syllables then 7 syllables then 5 syllables. On the week commencing 22nd April, we looked at a new poem in Guided Reading, called ‘Poem of Earth’s Cry’. This is also by Mandy Coe. In English, we expanded our knowledge on figurative language. We looked at a video of Joseph Coelho – the current Children’s Laureate – making a poem about a statue. We also looked at some pictures and used similes and metaphors to describe them.
The next lesson, we looked at a text about climate change and wrote using figurative language. Our descriptions will help us to write a poem at the end of the week.
Finally, we wrote the poems it was a bit hard to add all our ideas in as we had as we had so many good ideas but in the end, they all turned out great.
By,
Andres, Florence, Lucy, Maiya, Tilly
Little visitors to Year 3
During this Learning Journey we have been reading extracts from the story of ‘The Borrowers’ by Mary Norton. We have also been watching videos to help bring the story alive. First, we considered what it would be like to be as small as a borrower how it might feel to explore the classroom as a tiny person. We then created expanded noun phrases to describe the setting and learnt how to use inverted commas for speech, which we will use next week when we will write our own adventure stories.
Once we have finished writing and editing our work, we plan to read them to the Year 6 children in the hope of entertaining them.
Year 6 Cricket
Year 6 have been started to do cricket with Active 360 and have been practicing their many skills learned from year 3 to year 5. Year 6 have tried their hardest to perfect throwing and catching the ball, controlling where we hit the ball in the field and learning the names of some of the fielding position. Next week we’ll be swinging our way to the field to play some cricket games. By Faye, Blackman class.
Scrumdiddlyumptious snack bars in Dahl Class
Thank you to all the parents for their contributions towards our snack bar project. The children loved the topic, as you can see from their smiles, and learnt lots of useful cookery skills along the way.
Pompeii’s devastation
A new term, and with it a new History topic. The children spent their first morning back after the Easter holidays learning all about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. As a final outcome the children wrote play scripts using specific vocabulary relevant to the time period. Taking advantage of the beautiful weather, we took our performances outside and practiced them. In the pictures can you spot the following: people clinging onto walls whilst the earth shakes; citizens huddled together on a boat escaping the bay; some people struggling to breathe due to the ash cloud; a poor dog abandoned by its owners; others being given first aid for major burns and some children playing knucklebones before the eruption.
Science Week 2024
For Science Week 2024 our theme was ‘time’. Among other activities this week (an engineering competition and investigating scientist roles in the work place) Year 4 made their own water clocks. The activity was designed to support the application of children’s working scientifically skills consequently, the task was very open-ended. The children we given the challenge to make the water clock time exactly one minute.
Some children chose to adapt their clock by using a different amount of water, or changing the size of the holes in the bottle, alongside other ideas. The children use4d excellent investigative skills and enjoyed exploring all options. Many of them managed to achieve the challenge, using resilience and critical thinking!! Lots of house points all round!
