Blog Author: Mrs Dowson

Today we painted our clay tiles. Each symbol we used means something personal to us as individuals.

We have designed our own Maya pots using pictures, hieroglyphs and colours from the period. 
Yesterday Miss Huddleston came to teach us how to make the pots from clay. We used coils to create the sides and slip to join the coils together. When the pots are dry we will add our designs. We had a…

Today in Science we have planned and carried out our own investigations. 
Using balls as rocks we tested whether larger rocks created larger craters. 
Some of us chose to investigate whether the height the rock (ball) fell from changed the crater size. 

Today in Art we have designed and started to make our own clay tiles in the style of the Maya Civilisation. We created 4 symbols to represent us as individuals and incorporated these into a clay tile. When they are dry we will paint them. 

Today in Science we have been finding out about day and night and how they occur. In pairs one of us was the Sun and the other the Earth. As Earth spun on its own axis we watched the Sun appear and day begin. England was warmed and lit by the Sun all day before night fell and it grew darker and…

Today we started our new topic in geography: Europe! We looked at the countries in each part of Europe (Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western) and tried to memorise some of their names and locations. Some, like Italy and Greece had very obvious shapes but others were much harder! We also learnt…

We worked with Mikey and Jenny to learn about our Lancashire Heritage using music and dance. We danced the jig, the reel, the horn pipe, the waltz and the march. We had lots of fun. 

Today we have been learning to dance to traditional Lancashire music played on a fiddle. 

Today in Art we looked at the work of Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter who is famous for her self portraits. We found out a little about her life and learned how hard it had been. 
We tried to find adjectives to describe her painting, Self-Portrait with Monkeys,  before creating our own monkeys as…

Today we made and evaluated our musical instruments to complete our DT topic. 

We used our plans to create our instruments. We helped each other out and had lots of fun. Our instruments all made a sound and some of us even managed to create an instrument that we could change the pitch of, this…

Ladybirds are looking for somewhere warm to spend the winter.

Today in Science we have been investigating how to make the perfect string telephone. 

We used different sized cups, made from different materials and then tested wool, string and thread in different lengths and thicknesses. 

In pairs, we decided which of our string telephones was the best…