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6th - 10th February
Posted: Feb 24, 2017 by: Teachers (BishopTeachers) on: What's been happening in Discoverers & Voyagers.
This week we have been VERY busy. Both classes have finished their underwater fantasy stories and have had opportunity to mark their own and a peer's according to a checklist of 'What A Good One Looks Like (WAGOLL)'. Some of their stories are absolutely fantastic. We can't wait to share them with Years 5 and 6 after half term!
In Maths, we have been looking at decimal numbers, ordering and comparing them. Some of the pictures below are of children using dice to create numbers of their own, before comparing them to see whose number was largest.
Science has involved designing and setting up a simple enquiry investigating the effect of temperature on evaporation rates. The children thought carefully about how the investigation could be made fair, what we would keep the same and what we would change. The children decided to put 100ml of water outside, 100ml of water inside at room temperature and another 100ml of water on top of the class radiator. We marked the water level using a marker pen and waited a day to see what would happen. We discovered that evaporation rates are highest when the temperature is increased and that condensation occurs at colder temperatures.
Sadly, our topics of the Celts and the Romans came to end this week. The Discoverers had chance to present posters, they have been working on, to the rest of the class and the Voyagers enjoyed a Roman feast and chariot parade at the end of the week! We have thoroughly enjoyed this topic but look forward to exploring our new topics of the Middle Ages and the Tudors after half term.
