A big thank you to the children who learnt their lines so well for the celebration event on Tuesday.
Mrs Poncia was our special guest to the finale event to celebrate the completion of our “How can we protect people from Natural Disasters?” expedition before Easter.
We presented her with the poem that we wrote, as she lives in the village of Fishlake, devastated by the floods in 2019 – she is even mentioned in one of the verses! She was very impressed and loved our artwork.
This week as part of our expedition, we are learning about bones. We started off this topic by matching the different bones to the skeleton, by hunting for the different bones around the classroom and matching them to the skeleton. Not only did we match the bones, we also learnt their scientific names as well!
I canāt believe that there have only been 4 days at school this wee, we seem to have done so much!
In English, we have developed our speaking and listening skills by creating role plays about a disastrous visit to a dentist. We followed this up by starting our extended piece of creative writing – a diary entry about a disastrous visit to a dentist! We are being inspired by the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and the Demon dentist.
In Expedition, we had stomach churning investigations into how our digestive system works. We researched the functions of the parts of the digestive system and then things got a little bit messy when we created our own digestive system with bananas, orange juice, biscuits and a pair of tights!
A great week has been topped-off with todayās NSPCC number day. We have shared the book āHow many Jellybeansā which showed us exactly what 1 million jellybeans looks like. That inspired us to investigate different aspects of maths using jelly beans! We have weighed, timed, created 3D shapes, graphed, estimated and much more – and then we got to eat Jellybeans – win win!
I am so proud of working with the children and adults in LKS2, their hard work and enthusiasm makes me look forward to coming to work every day!
4L have enjoyed getting very messy (sorry grown ups) to create the digestive system. We used a bag, a pair of tights, biscuits, banana, orange juice and water, we mixed all of the food and drink together in a bag (the stomach), then we sent the contents in the bag through the tights (small intestine) we soaked up all of the nutrients with a paper towel (large intestine) finally we cut a hole in the bottom of the tights, for the poo to come out.
I’m sure if you ask your children, they will tell you how disgusting it was!
On Friday 14th May, we will be celebrating Pyjamarama Day in school. Children are invited to come to school in their pyjamas for a suggested donation of Ā£1. The aim of the day is to raise awareness of the importance of a bedtime story for all children. Donations will go to the National Book Trust, who use the money to help all children have a story in their homes to read. Children will be participating in some fun activities in school on this day, all linked to reading for pleasure.
Today we have been learning about the digestive system. We have explored what the digestive system is and what organs are used in the digestive system and we worked together to put the digestive system back together.
We began the week by setting up our scientific experiment, to investigate the impact of different substances on our teeth. We did this by covering eggs in different liquids – coke; milk; water; and orange juice. We looked at the results yesterday and looking at the reactions of the egg shells, it is safe to say that coke and orange juice are not good for your teeth! We have to make sure we brush our teeth well after drinking them!
We continued our learning about how to make Doncaster more healthy, with an expert visitor – Mr Price a paramedic. The children had lots of great questions and were fascinated by what Mr Price had to say.
We are looking forward to what more we will learn next week!
We have been developing our sporty skills this afternoon in Year 4. Miss Lotysz, Mrs Pass and I were really impressed with the way children were working on improving the accuracy of their throwing and catching. There was also some great critique to help each other improve.
It would be really helpful if children could bring PE kits to school on Monday and leave them for the week, especially with our current expedition about health.
Have a lovely bank holiday weekend and I will see you all on Tuesday.
Today, Mr Price came into school to talk to us about his job as a paramedic. We had lots of interesting questions to ask him about his job and how we can make Doncaster more healthy. Thank you Mr Price for answering all of our questions. #LovePlover
