Maths workshop

Yesterday, Neive and Oscar went to George Street for a maths workshop.

The first activity we completed was a magic square, which is a 3x3 box where you have to place the numbers, for example 0.6, 0.7, 0.8. We discovered that diagonally you needed to have the same number for the magic square to work. After this we completed magic squares with 4, 5 and 6 numbers.

Next, we were given a shape e.g. a triangle - which had 6 circles on it.(3 across the bottom, one on each remaining edge and a final circle on the vertex at the top) We had to place numbers 1-6 in each of the circles and find the highest number you could make. We multiplied the numbers and then added them together.

Another of the puzzles we were given was a range of shapes that when placed together in set way made a square. There are some pictures below to show you what we were creating.

We had a great day and learned lots!

Science day

Today, we all dressed up as mad scientists ready for a day of experiments! A big thank you to Clare Rudd, one of our governors, for coming to join us for the day.

To start the day off, we carried out an experiment with two balloons. The first balloon was just blown up, we wanted to find out what would happen if we put a flame underneath...instantly, it burst with a loud BANG! The second part to the experiment was carried out with water in the balloon. This time we held the flame underneath for quite some time! We discovered that the water was absorbing the heat from the flame and therefore it took longer to burst the balloon. Take a look at the video clip below to see what happened.

Our second experiment of the day took us a while to perfect! However, we persevered and made it work. We created a mixture of warm water, vinegar and baking powder. Originally, we mixed up the ingredients in a large zip lock bag...but this was unsuccessful.

We went back to the classroom and had another think about the containers that we could try. We decided upon a plastic cup covered with cling film and a water bottle.
This is what happened...

This came close to what we were expecting to happen...but it didn't raise off of the floor. The cling film was too weak to gather enough pressure for an explosion to happen. So we tried the water bottle...

We finally ended up with the result we were hoping to see!

In the afternoon we investigated to see if we could layer the colours of skittles. First, we counted out 12 purple skittles, 10 green, 8 orange, 6 yellow and 4 red. We placed then in glasses and poured hot water on them and stirred them up to ensure all of the sugar coloured coating came off of them.

 We then poured the purple skittle juice into a clean glass. Next came the tricky part! Using a syringe, we needed to take the coloured liquid from the green skittles and carefully pour it on top of the purple liquid. We needed to ensure the liquid ran down the side of the glass so that it did not disturb the purple mixture. 

We continued our experiment and although it didn't work as well as we had hoped, you can still see some layers of the liquids.

For the final part of the afternoon, we were joined by Mrs Johnson from SAM Science. We carried out 3 different experiments. First of all we began to create the mixture for our ice cream, we had to roll the ball full of ice cubes and salt around for ages! But the result meant that we all got a bowl of ice cream :)

In between mixing up the ice cream, we took it in turns to make our very own cups of jelly worms!

We also experienced flash paper!

Overall, it was a fantastic day full of experiments! A huge thank you to Miss Groves for organising the whole day!

nets

In maths today we were identifying nets of shapes. We used some polygon to help us on our questions about nets. At first we were asked to make a shape with the polygon and identify them such as octahedron,square based pyramid,triangular prism and more. After that, we were given a set of questions to answer,some were harder than others. We all managed to work through some very tricky questions.

Super hero WANTED posters

Today in English, we became our super heroes - we acted out how our super hero would move around, what their facial expressions might be like and how their body language would show their personality. This was extremely helpful to get us to think about our super heroes and create our WANTED posters. Tomorrow, we will be using our WANTED posters to help us write our non-chronological report. Take a look at our work below.

Skip to be fit

Last half term we had Skip to be fit in school and this highlighted what talented skippers we have in our school! This half term we have entered a virtual skip to be fit competition for years 3 and 4. It is being run by our Sports Ambassadors, Oscar and Ollie. Each week they will be timing pupils in years 3 and 4 to see how many skips they can complete in 2mins and then their scores will be averaged out and sent off to the league co-ordinator. Good luck to you all!

You can see how they got on by looking at the PE board in the playground at the end of the term.

Non-chronological reports - superheroes!

In English, our focus in non-chronological reports. We are using superheroes as our focus. This week we have been looking at superheroes and their powers along with their weaknesses. We have been hot seating different superheroes using what we have learnt about them. Individually we have been thinking about super powers that we could act out - here is a picture of us in action! Can you guess our super powers???