Our work for SATS this week produced an enthusiastic stimulus in making treasure maps, devising different kinds of treasure, not always on an island, giving directions on how to get it, and providing clues in various forms. It has been exciting and enjoyable.
Next week we look forward to Happy Handwriting Week, when we will focus twice a day all week to improving our handwriting, including teachers!
We have had a very scientific week this week, exploring different types of Electricity – current mains and battery power – and static electricity. Today we had geat fun watching bits of tissue poaper cling to a plastic pen that had been rubbed on a woolly surface. The children experimented with these items and discovered ar first hand the properties of static electricity.
Homework over the next two weeks is to research some famous scientists who discovered things about electricity. The children are asked to make a poster of some scientists and their discoveroes about electricity.
This week we were delighted to welcome Miss Rachel Baker as our new teaching assistant. She has spent time with the children in small groups and we look forward to working together.
Homework this week is about time and measurement. The children explored various places around the school identifying things which were as long as, longer than or shorter than a metre and then went on to measure smaller objects in centimetres and millimetres. They had great fun and made quite accurate measurements. There was also some very (honest?) estimating going on.
We have begun 2009 in style with an enthusiastic beginning to our new Learning Journey- Dazzle and Zap! This is a science journey covering the topics of Light and Electricity. The children will be carrying out investigations into the properties and characteristics of these two physical processes and finding out about some famous scientists. If this is your particular enthusiasm please contact me if you can help in any way.
Homework this week is about Venn Diagrams which have been the focus of our Handling Data unit.
