3,4 B Class News
A wonderful week of learning in 3,4B this week!
In Science we have been looking at animal skeletons and classifying them based on a range of different criteria. The children worked in pairs to do this and worked fantastically in a collaborative way – having great discussions and offering each other help and support when needed.
In Geography this week, as part of our topic- ‘Where in the world am I?’ we have looked at compass points and then applied this knowledge by looking at a map of Roundhay and deciding where locations are in relation to each other.
Help at home by regularly listening to your child read and discussing the content to develop understanding. Feel free to quiz us on the counties in the United Kingdom and the points of a compass too!
Living and Learning – Rights and Responsibilities
This week in Living and Learning, we have been talking about what rights and responsibilities are.
We discussed how a right is a moral or legal entitlement to have or do something and talked about the rights that we all have, such as the right to an education.
We have also discussed how a responsibility is an obligation to behave in a certain way.
For example, we have the right to be listened to. We have the responsibility to listen to others.
Help at home by asking your child if they can tell you some different rights and responsibilities.
Crazy about conkers in 1,2B
We’re collecting conkers to use in our maths lessons. It’s helping us count in tens and add bigger numbers. We have 357 so far!
Science: we are physicists
5,6B have continued to learn about forces this week and investigated air resistance further. The children constructed their parachutes using plastic bags, Plasticine, paperclips and string. They ensured their 3 parachutes had different surface areas. They predicted that the parachute with the smaller surface area would fall first as it has less surface area and therefore less drag.
The children dropped the parachutes multiple times and worked out an average drop time. Next week, we’ll evaluate the results and reach a conclusion about our findings.
Help at home: Ask your child about variables. What was the control, dependent and independent variable in the investigation?
Survivors Diary Entry
This week, we’ve been writing a survivors style diary entry taking inspiration from our class novel: Survivors by David Long.
Today, we edited and improved our writing in pairs. We checked that we had included:fronted adverbials, relative clauses and that our writing was in the first person.
Help at home: by asking your child to write a sentence with a fronted adverbial in it. This makes their sentence starters more varied and interesting!
Geography – I can see the seas!
This week in Geography, 2C have been researching the seas that surround the UK and how to read a map key.
We listened to a song about the UK – United Kingdom Song with signing | By Al Start | Primary School Geography – YouTube (This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)
We also used Google Earth and Atlases to help us with our research.
Does the surface area of a parachute affect how quickly it falls?
In this week’s science learning, we conducted an enquiry to answer the following question:
Does the surface area of a parachute affect how quickly it falls?
We went to the hall to drop our parachutes and timed how long they took to drop to the floor.
What did we change? The size of the parachute
What did we keep the same? The height, the weight and the force applied
What did we measure? How long it took for the parachute to fall
Our results showed us that the bigger the surface area of the parachute, the longer it takes to fall because more air resistance is acting on it.
Help at home: Present the sentence above to your child with the bold words missing and see if they can fill in the gaps!
Maths: place value
This half term, Y2 are focussing on Place Value in Maths. Numbers are very important so it is important we know everything we can about numbers 0-100. We have been using place value charts, part-part-whole models and ten frames to recognise which number represents the ‘tens’ and which represents the ‘ones’.
PE in 1,2B
We certainly have had happy and healthy PE lessons the last two weeks. We played a tag game, after making our own ‘pitch’ using cones. The highlight for most people was the ‘up and down’ team game at the end. We could all see and feel how our bodies had changed after exercise!
Science in Year 1
In Science we are learning about the human body! We have enjoyed drawing around our bodies on the playground and labeling our body parts.
Over the next few weeks we will be focusing on the five senses. The children were very inquisitive when finding out about their sense of sight and what it might be like to be blind. Guides dogs and braille came into our conversations. We conducted a little investigation on the playground: Could we accurately throw a beanbag into a hoop if we were partially sighted or blind? Ask your child to retell their findings.
