In Outdoor Learning we have being making our own pens out of sticks and making our own ink using fruits and spices. We used test tubes to mix the ink and fruit peelers to make our pens. We had great fun testing them out.
This week the children in 6B have been reading the story Pattan’s Pumpkin. They have learned a little bit about some of the areas in the book, which is set in India, and have compared pictures of the landscape there with the landscape of Northumberland. The children have written postcards to Pattan, telling him why they think he should visit Northumberland. In maths the children have been talking about times: o’clock and half past, and thinking about when they do things during the day like have breakfast, brush their teeth and go to bed, as well as some more practice recording times, using the stopwatches to record how long it takes for their friend to build a small Lego model.
The children have sculpted and painted their own version of the setting for Pattan’s Pumpkin in art and have used this to retell a scene from the story. They used the ipads with their setting to make a stop-motion video of the scene when Pattan brings the pumpkin home and it grows enormous! In science they have planted their own seeds in readiness for planting out their own vegetable garden in spring time. We have talked about individual responsibility and the children have been given their own jobs to be responsible for around the classroom.
This week Class 5 have worked so hard. We have been making our own roller coasters using junk modelling, we have also made our own fizzy lifting drinks which got our taste buds tingling. We made our very own edible chocolate factory’s which turned out better than Mr.Willy Wonkas! We have also learnt a lot about the cocoa bean and the amount of effort it takes to make a chocolate bar! This week we visited Bolam Lake to carry out our orienteering tasks.
Great work this week Class 5, only 3 more weeks to go!
This week class 5B travelled to India. We read the story of Pattan’s Pumpkin by Chitra Soundar about a farmer who grew an enormous pumpkin and saved the animals from a great flood. Pattan wrote us a letter and asked us to make a curry using vegetables from his farm. It tasted delicious!
We looked on google earth and found the Sahyadri Mountains where the story was based. We watched a film and chose pictures of the animals, people and places from the area to describe.
Last Saturday it was Diwali. We found out that Diwali is celebrated by the Hindu religion  all over the world. We made some crafts to celebrate including Diva lamps and Rangoli patterns.
This week class 3A have created some amazing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory inspired artwork!
We have used our Design Technology skills to plan our artwork, we have used our Literacy skills and phonic knowledge to write lists of the resources we need to create our design ideas. We have independently collected our own resources, used our Math’s skills to measure our creations and we have also worked scientifically to test our work.
We have had great fun learning this week!
Have a great weekend class 3A.
This week in class 4A we have had a scrumdidillyunctious week! We made our own TVs and shrunk pictures of ourselves to imagine we had been shrunk like Mike Teavee from Charlie and the Chocolate factory! We also made moving backgrounds for our TV’s which worked really well!
We took a step back in time and looked at how the Mayans made their hot chocolate. We weren’t ready to try our hot chocolate with a kick of chilli, but we tried it with a bit of cinnamon in! We also made some lovely Mayan houses and clay mugs!
We ended the week by making our own chocolate creations! We took a taste test of secret flavours and added our favourite flavours to our melted chocolate. We then picked some toppings to add to our chocolate and waited patiently for them to set in the fridge. They looked delicious!
This week class 6B have been finding out all about the Hindu celebration of Diwali which took place last weekend. The children have learned about the story behind it all – the story of Rama and Sita, and created their own pop-up story scenes showing the moment the demon king kidnaps princess Sita! They have found out about Diva lamps, and how it is a symbol during the festival, of light triumphing over darkness, and printed their own Rangoli patterns from recycled materials, learning how they are thought to bring luck during Diwali.
The children have also tried some traditional foods that are often eaten at Diwali, cooking their own vegetable curry and making their own coconut-square sweets. In outdoor learning the children have made their own pens and inks from natural material, and have used Google maps to find out where India is in the world and locate some famous landmarks of the country such as the Taj Mahal.
This week Class 5 have carried a variety of activities still based on the film Charlie in the chocolate factory. We have had a really busy week, we made our own TV’s using shoes boxes and even shrunk ourselves so we could fit into them! We then used the iPad’s to create a short clip. We have been researching the Ancient Maya civilization and found out that they worshipped the god of cocoa! We have also visited ‘Karen Kiosk’ to purchase different fruits so we could measure and weigh the fruits to create a fruit smoothie, they were all yummy! Class 5 have also made there own chocolate bar, we used a range of different flavorings to mix into our chocolate as well as adding a little secret surprise.
Well done Class 5, you have all worked so hard this week!
This week we had a new book called ’Sam’s sandwich’, about a boy who made a sandwich for his sister but added gross things like bugs and insects. We looked at how to make a sandwich and what bossy words to use in instructions.
In maths we practiced addition and subtraction using lots of fun food items like M&Ms and jelly beans. We played lots of counting games on the interactive whiteboard and practiced writing some numbers using whiteboards.
In science we looked at food – what is sweet, salty and sour, what is healthy and not healthy, which foods we like and don’t like. In Art and Design we started small projects. Some of us were Subway workers, designing sandwiches and the wrappers. Some were smoothie shop assistants, designing cups and making our own smoothies, and some of us where Wonka employees, designing and manufacturing chocolate bar wrappers.
This week we found out why we wear poppies on Remembrance Day. We created our own poppies and Mrs Sanderson showed us photographs of poppies on the war memorial in Morpeth. We thought about our own memories and put them in order.
Then we thought about what it might have been like during the World Wars. We listened to music and made war time scones – we hope you liked them!
