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21st February - 24th February
Posted: Feb 26, 2017 by: Teachers (BishopTeachers) on: What's been happening in Adventurers & Investigators.
In Literacy this week we began looking at the story Wallace and Gromit's 'Grand Day Out', which involves Wallace and Grommit building a rocket with the intention to go on a 'cheese holiday' to the moon!
The children have been very enthusiastic about preparing to write their recount and have already decided to change the story by the including Tim Peake, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin and aliens in their version!
In Maths we began by sharing our prior knowledge of 3D and 2D shapes and discovered we were shape experts! We also discovered we are proud to say if there are things we find tricky. Ben explained he finds rectangles and squares confusing because they both have four sides. Well done Ben! A great observation.
Jenny discovered tetrahedrons (4 triangular faces, 4 vertices and 6 edges. This lead to the question " If you join two tetrahedrons together which properties change or stay the same?"
Science
In our science Investigators class made grass heads. We considered how by making our grass heads different we would be able to see how well the grass germinates and grows in different conditions. All of our grass heads have been given some water and placed in on our sunny windowsill and we will be keeping a close eye on them looking for the very first signs of growth! Adventurers will be deciding on what plants they wish to grown next week.
Art
We looked at how different artists have created portraits and self portraits, looking at the different styles, techniques and materials they have used. We then created our very own self portraits! Well done to Zack who based his design on a picture we had seen by Picasso!
