Week beginning - Monday 26th April 2021

 In Maths this week we have been learning about weights. We used both balance scales and weighing scales. The children were introduced to lots of new vocabulary. We discussed the weights of a variety of objects comparatively. The children also applied their problem solving and reasoning skills. 

In English this week we have continued learning about Captain Tom; we are really enjoying sharing his book 'One Hundred Steps'. The children have written sentences about Captain Tom which have included the conjunction 'and'. We have also been writing questions that we would like to asked Captain Tom if he was still alive. The class have been really super at implementing the correct punctuation in the appropriate places. 

Using concrete objects, the children creating words which included the sounds we have been learning this week.

We enjoyed learning how to implement a push pass in hockey this week. Mrs Fiske visited our lesson and we loved showing her the skills we had learnt and were learning. 

We have enjoyed exploring the shaving foam to uncover the facts about Captain Tom!

Recalling on our previous learning the children were introduced to our enquiry question today, ‘Do all plants need water, sunlight and soil to grow?’ and were asked to make predictions around this question. The children were encourage to give a because statement too, explaining why they think what they thought! The children were shown the equipment available to them and were given time to consider how we could undertake an experiment with the equipment provided. Ideas were shared and fed back to the working wall. It was decided that we would do a ‘fair testing’ experiment where 1 variable stays the same but others change. The variable staying the same was the bean.
1 - water, soil, sunlight
2 - water, soil, no sunlight
3 - water, no soil, sunlight
4 - no water, soil, sunlight
Together we constructed the experiment. We discussed the amount of water each seed will get in order for the test to remain fair. We also discussed where we could put each variable. We were now performing a ‘observation over time’ enquiry too!
Following this we talked though a short presentation to embed the children’s knowledge of what a plant needs to grow.
Lastly we worked together to create a table to record our results. We agreed to observe the seeds twice a week, a Tuesday and Friday.