The children were extremely focused in the lesson whilst practising different styles and designs that they could shape their bread in. All the children enjoyed watching and partaking in the initial creation of the bread and were awed by the amount that the bread rose through to the yeast! Most children wanted to bake the bread in the oven however they saw how in some cultures bread could be fried and even boiled! All the children enjoyed taking home their delicious tasty bread trials. These skills are building in preparation for their actual making next week.
Category : Year 5/6
Year 5 have started a new unit in English – non-chronological reports. Today, the children learnt about structural and language features of non-chronological reports. Some structural features include:
- Title
- Sub-headings
- Image and caption
- Introduction
- Paragraphs
Language features within a non-chronological report are:
- Fronted adverbials
- Relative clauses
- Parenthesis to add extra information
- Formal language
- Factual language
- Third person
The children then analysed a non-chronological report, highlighting these areas. We are now experts!
Year 5 have really enjoyed today’s lesson where they have been investigating different styles of bread. They have detailed how it smells, what it’s appearance is like along with the taste. Lots of children really enjoyed the baguette but hated the gluten free bread. These discoveries will really help them in their design process.
Year 5 have been learning about changing states and materials in our science lessons. In today’s lesson (as it is science week!), we were learning about reversible and irreversible changes.
We understood that reversible changes are something that you can change back to its original form through: sieving, filtering, evaporating and through magnets.
Irreversible changes are things that cannot be undone or changed back to its original form for example, scrambling eggs, melting a candle, or baking a cake.
For our experiment today, the children had three ingredients: bicarbonate soda and and vinegar. The children predicted what would happen when the bicarbonate soda is mixed with the vinegar – they came up with the idea that it would fizz. We tested our predictions through the experiment where we put a tablespoon of bicarbonate soda inside a balloon and placed the balloon on top of a bottle that was filled with vinegar.
Our results showed that a chemical reaction occurred with the bicarbonate soda and the vinegar, producing a gas and changing its state. As a result, the balloon blew up! This is an irreversible change.
Year 5 have been putting their sketching, cross-hatching and shading skills to create a portrait of a Viking warrior. The children carefully analysed similarities of some Viking images: long, un-kept hair, moustache and beard, Viking helmet, bushy eyebrows. They then put their knowledge into practice!
Here are some of our wonderful creations!
In our art lesson, year 5 have been learning all about Da Vinci, who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. We used our research skills to find out about Da Vinci’s achievements: learning some names of his famous drawings and sculptures. In this lesson, the children explored Da Vinci’s techniques using out shading and sketching skills.
Here are some of our final designs:
Year 6 had lots of fun investigating static electricity.
Static electricity is the buildup of the electrical charge in an object when it is rubbed against another object. Static electricity causes objects to stick together when they have opposite charges and repel when they have the same charge. Common examples of this include rubbing a party balloon on your head.
We thought we’d give it a go…
We had some enthusiastic volunteers…
Loving the new hairstyle…
Some objects such as wool, glass, human skin and hair are more likely to accumulate electric charges and have static electricity. Shuffling your feet across carpet, particularly in socks, is another way your body gains more electrons; they are released when you touch something such as a doorknob or another person.
As scientists the children were posed with a problem.
How could they get tissue paper to move without touching it ?
Working systematically and collaboratively small groups carried out their investigation…
Getting there…
How could we attract more tissue paper?
This group were more successful….
They realised rubbing the balloon for different lengths of time to hold different amounts of static electricity to pick up more tissue paper worked.
And finally making a prediction….
What will happen if you rub a balloon on your head a hold it over a mixture of salt and pepper?
The science explained…
It’s not magic, it’s static electricity! Rubbing a balloon gives it a negative charge, also called static electricity. When the balloon gains enough static electricity, and it is brought near the mix of salt and pepper, the negative charge polarizes the salt and pepper. That is, it moves the electrons of the salt and pepper to one side, leaving one end positive and one end negative. The positive end is attracted to the negatively charged balloon, but because pepper is much lighter than salt, the pepper flakes will jump on the balloon, leaving the salt behind.
Static electricity does more than just make your hair stand up!!!
Now onto ‘Three of a Kind’. Year 5 are BLOWING us away!
A snippet of the children playing ‘Latin Sun’. Wow!
Year 5 have been learning to play ‘rocket ship’ which is a song consisting of the notes A and G. Today, the children are learning a new note, E.
We are loving our weekly clarinet lessons with Mrs Hall!
