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.
We have enjoyed the maths activities planned for Number day!
We used jelly beans to help us with our learning. In particular we enjoyed making 3D shapes using cocktails and jelly beans. We really enjoyed eating the jellybeans at the end.
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!
We had a great afternoon yesterday. We are scientists and we have been learning about the digestive system this week, and we brought it to life! We used a plastic bag, tights, orange juice, bananas and biscuits to recreate how food is digested ā broken down in the mouth, mixed in the stomach and passed through the intestines, until the waste is passed out of the body as faeces.
How funny it is to see how our insides work, on the outside!
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.
3L have had great fun using our imagination to act out our horror trip to the dentist. This will help inspire their writing next week! Take a look at our ‘freeze frame’ moments from our acting! #LovePlover
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 had a great week in LKS2 this week learning all about our teeth.
In English we have been comparing diary entries, looking at an extract from āA poo, a gnu and youā and āDiary of a Wimpy Kidā. When then wrote our own diary entries around visiting the dentist.
In Expedition, we have learnt the names and functions of the different teeth, as well as what a tooth is made from – but best of all, we investigated how clean our teeth are using disclosing tablets – that created a few giggles!
Hopefully parents, you wonāt have a battle getting the children to clean their teeth this weekend!
Well done to Crew Blackham for coming first again in our reading league, and to Crew Chapman for coming a close second. A shout out goes to Crew Lister for gaining third place; you must have been reading your socks off.
