Children in Need this Friday

Just a quick reminder that this friday (16th) is Children in Need day and so we are asking the children to come into school wearing spotty clothes. Donations can be given in on the day.

Maths- pupil links update

This week in maths we are counting using money. The children have been buying two items and adding them together to get a total amount in pennies. We have added onto our maths pupil links the websites that the children have been using in class.

Topic this week

In our topic session this afternoon some groups were looking at a picture of one of the tallest buildings in the world. The children looked at its construction and how many windows it has. One of the other groups used the purple mash software to draw their own picture of a house. The final group worked as a team using the big bricks to build a large house.

Marshmallow experiment

Today we have been doing an experiment with marshmallows. First of all the children had a feel and a smell of them

"feels squidgy" "rough" "sticky" "you can twist it" "you can stretch it"

We decided to turn it from a solid to a liquid. To do this we put it in the microwave for 10 seconds.

After 10 seconds they started to melt, we decided to put them back in....

It then turned into a liquid and became very stretchy.

A question: We wonder how long it would take for it to turn back into a solid?

wb 12/11/12

This week in literacy we will be looking at the book penguin small and focussing on punctuation. In numeracy we have started to work on halving numbers and subtraction as difference.

There has been some brilliant home learning recently. Please feel free to bring in any numeracy/literacy work to show us.

Huish Farm trip

Great day in the lovely Dorset countryside today! We saw ravens, pheasants, partridges, buzzards, roe deer, hare, badger setts and lots more!! We climbed a hill (some of us fell over coming down!), hid in trees, dodged the sheep poo and had a lovely ride in a trailer with Farmer John! We made friends with Pickle and laughed when Mr F got splashed by the big tractor!!!

Fire safety and Huish farm trip.

Welcome back, we hope that you ll had a fun filled half term.

Today we have been talking about fire safety. The children have ordered some pictures of what to do if there is a fire.

Also this week we will be visiting Huish Farm (thursday). Please bring your child in warm, old play clothes with wellington boots and trainers in a named plastic bag so that we can change into them before we get into the coach. They will also need a packed lunch and a named water bottle. A warm raincoat is also a must. Due to the large amount of adults in the class we will not have enough room for any other adults but thank you to all that have offered.

We hope that you have a exciting and safe bonfire night and look forward to hearing about the fireworks children have seen tomorrow.