This week Year 5 have been busy creating pictures of rockets with chalk pastels. Everyone had fun using the chalk pastels and drawing the outline of the rockets in pencil. Everyone’s hands were a mess after using the chalk pastels. Even if people used bright colours, some hands looked absolutely horrendous!
Today Fox Class were editing their space stories by reading to the trees. It was lovely to be out in the sunshine and to hear the stories out loud. It really helped us to spot our mistakes!
We had great fun on Monday using the equipment in PE to show off our gymnastics skills.
First we got on to our school trip bus to Winchester Science Centre. It took one hour to get there! When we finally got there, we put our bags and coats into a trolley. After that, we did a rocket science workshop. Someone called Sunny took the workshop- she showed us this purple liquid that if you shook it and lit the vapour you got to see FIRE! Then we got to make our own rockets. When it was my groups turn, our rocket went the furthest and our astronaut (a lego brick) stayed in it (it was the only one!).
Then we went for lunch (not very exciting). After lunch, we went to the planetarium. We had seats that leaned back and as you looked at the dome it was like we were travelling in space. Then we went downstairs to look at the space things. There were games, interactive activities and lots to explore. Then we went upstairs where there were lots more things like sound proof walls, instruments and liquids. I really enjoyed it but then sadly it was time to go so we got back on the coach.
Have a look at the rockets that we made on our trip to Winchester Science Centre!
We have had such a fantastic week making masks and using ink to draw Italian buildings. We look forward to sharing our artwork with you during our gallery on Wednesday!
In Year 5 we have been looking at the country of Italy and particularly at Venetian masks. We used a template to sketch an outline and then added details to it. We then used modroc to create the base of our mask on the balloons. A lot of the balloons popped- scaring Miss Clark! But we persevered and managed to successfully get our masks started
This week we received a letter from the chief alchemist of Alchemy Island. He sent us a riddle and a map to find where a portal might appear. We solved the riddle and created some brilliant portal pictures that look through to different areas of the island. A member of our class has written a report on what we have seen so far for you to read!
This week Year 5 were set a challenge to create a tomb for a pharaoh. We split into groups and started planning and creating objects for the tomb. We had decorations, a sarcophagus, a death mask and canopic jars. We all worked really well as a team and enjoyed going out in to the tomb (gazebo!) this morning to show all our creations ( even if we did get a bit wet!)
Over the last two weeks, Fox Class have worked hard to write their own poems based on ‘Red Fox’ by Robert Macfarlane. We looked at the style the poem was written in, lots of rhyming words and identified the metaphors that he had used in his poem. We hope you enjoy reading some of our poems!
Over the last three weeks, we have created some Egyptian pottery and canopic jars. We learnt what they were used for and looked at lots of different designs. Then we made them out of clay and painted them.
We had a great time on grounds day: tidying up outside our classroom, planting flowers, painting fox leaves and picking apples. Here are some photos of our day!
We have had a great week in Fox Class getting to know each other and starting our topic of Egyptians. Earlier in the week I set the children the challenge of creating a self portrait showing their outer and inner self. They thought about what they like, their hobbies and favourite things and used it to complete the second half of their portrait. See if you can have a guess who is who!
We have had lots of fun over the last 2 weeks investigating the science of roller coasters. We first investigated loop the loops by dropping a marble down a tube and seeing how many it could complete. Later we looked at which materials created the most friction by pulling blocks across different surfaces with a Newton-meter. We used this information to think about what materials would be best to make the brakes and wheels of the roller coaster from.
Our first residential trip! We spent the night at the YHA Youth Hostel at Holmbury St Mary and after a big breakfast set off on a very long hike through the Surrey Hills to Leith Hill.
Today we had our 2nd clarinet lesson with Mr Chalk. We have learnt how to carefully put on the reed and to join the first half together. We then had a go at trying to make a sound. It was tricky and a little squeaky at first but eventually we managed to get some good sounds!
This week we got a sneak peek at the new books that will be put in the library. We had a lot of fun looking at the new books, reading the blurbs and thinking about which books we would like to take out!
Today in science we tried to see how moon craters were made by using flour and marbles. We investigated by dropping the marbles from different heights and measuring the depths and diameters of the craters we’d made.
We had a great day out at Winchester Science Centre. First we got to look the exhibits. There were lots of fun hands on things to look at and explore. After that we saw the space exhibit and got to learn about gravity on different planets and how people control rovers on Mars. After lunch we visited the planetarium and saw constellations and visited different planets. We finished with a workshop. We made rockets and saw how a rocket engine works. We had a lot of fun!
