As part of our ‘transport’ theme, we have been looking at different kinds of transport. We looked closely at rockets and after carefully designing our own space rockets, we built them out of clay. We used tools to add extra designs and details and sculpt out the perfect shape! We can’t wait to decorate them to add extra details and see them come to life!
In Class 4 we have been learning a lot about the seven continents. As part of our learning, we had a dance instructor come to give us some more information about Africa🌍 We learned some interesting facts about Africa, including animals that live in Africa and African celebrations. Did you know that hip hope was inspired by African dance? We learned that Africans use dance as not only a way to have fun but to celebrate and to communicate. We then had a go at trying some African dances ourselves!🥁🎶
Class 4 had a fantastic day on our trip to Gibside!
We spent the day creating art using nature and making our own artists pallets using flowers and leaves as well as creating sculptures using items we found in the forest!
We also went on a minibeast hunt to find as many different minibeasts as we could. We found lots of different creatures and using a magnifying glass we looked closely at the minibeasts to find out more about then in order to categorise them based on the amount of legs they had.
We all had so much fun!🌿🐛🐜☀️
As part of our ‘Transport’ topic, class 4 have been looking at different forms of transport. We looked at hot air balloons and decided to make our own. We started by creating a design for our hot air balloons before creating them using paper mache. It was very messy so we had lots of fun! We are now waiting for our balloons to dry before we can decorate them following our designs.
This week we have been looking at the non-fiction book “My Bean Diary”. We started by discussing features of a non-fiction text and how we knew this book was non-fiction. We are enjoying the book so much we decided to plant our own beans so that we can watch them grow and create our own bean diaries!🌱
This week Year 1 were lucky enough to receive another visit from Katie at Science Buddies to help us celebrate Science Week. As this years theme is ‘Connections’ we carried out 3 very exciting and interesting experiments…
Katie started by showing us how to use pipettes by adding water drop by drop into a cup. We also put on our safety goggles and lab coats – safety first!
We then used our new skills and techniques to add vinegar to a very special powder. We were so shocked to see the powder started to change colour!
Once we had completed our first experiment, we started another using skittles and water. We used the skittles to create a circle on a plate and then poured water onto the skittles and watched the colours run to create a beautiful rainbow!🌈
For our finally experiment we added mentos into coke and watched the reaction. We couldn’t believe it was even taller than Katie when it sprayed! We had a lot of fun carrying out all of our experiments and thoroughly enjoyed being scientists for the day!
Today we were lucky enough to receive a very special visit from a very special dog named Ted and his owner Rachel from DogsTrust. They came to us today to teach us how to treat dogs, in order to ensure that we are safe and happy when around dogs – and the dogs are happy and safe too! Rachel taught us how to approach dogs safely and what to do if a dog approaches us, before teaching us the 5 golden rules to remember whenever we are around dogs, as well as some actions to help us remember.
At the end of the session, she even let us try out what we had learned with Ted – who seemed very happy!🐶
In our RE lessons, as part of our Christianity topic, class 4 have been looking at what you might find in a church. To support us with this, we took a trip to a local church – St Hilda’s in South Shields.
At the church we met with Father Mark who gave us a lot of interesting information on the history of the church and St Hilda. We were shown lots of different parts of the church, including the lectern, alter, font, stained glass windows and so much more before being given the opportunity to go and explore them ourselves!
Class 4 have had a very magical day to celebrate World Book Day! We have completed book quizzes, designed our own book covers, shared our favourite books as well as reading lots of new ones and even had a visit from a REAL magician and his very cute rabbit, Flash, who showed us lots of amazing tricks!!🐇 ✨
and of course, we all looked FANTASTIC!!🌟
This week we have been reading the story of “The Runaway Pancake” and have been working on writing instructions on how to make pancakes. In order to help us with writing our instructions, we decided that the best way to understand how it is done, was to make them ourselves!
We started by adding all the ingredients together, making sure to carefully measure each ingredient and giving it a good mix before they were cooked in a pan.
We then chose which toppings we would like before the final and most important step – the taste test! And we can confirm they tasted delicious😋
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