Today we experimented with using our senses at 5 different stations set up around our classroom. We used our sense of taste to find out if food was sweet, bitter or sour. We used our sense of smell to guess a selection of scents such as vanilla, lemon, peppermint etc. We used our sense of touch to explore whether objects were smooth, rough, hard, soft, cold etc. We used our sense of hearing to explore making loud/soft and fast/slow music with our instruments. Finally, at our sight station, we played a game of find the snowballs while blindfolded, to help us appreciate how much we rely on our sight. The boys and girls had great fun and demonstrated their knowledge at the end of our lesson, within our class discussion.
Our Global Learning sessions of our topic involved us exploring different houses around the world. We looked at the shapes of other houses and the materials used to build, before comparing them to ours. We were able to find similarities and differences.
Mrs Heare spoke to both classes about her time in Burma and showed us pictures of the houses she saw there. Some were very different to our houses!
A beautiful crisp Autumnal day meant that we were able to get out for a lovely Autumn walk. We discussed the signs of Autumn and what to watch out for before we set off. We took clipboards and alongside a partner ticked off what we could see.
When we were back in the classroom we discussed the items we did not tick off on our checklist. While we did not see any squirrels it does not mean they don’t come out more during Autumn.
Over the last few weeks we have enjoyed lots of practical literacy and numeracy activities to help us develop our knowledge of sounds and our concept of numbers, shapes, size and sorting.
Have a look at our amazing autumn trees. We used rollers to paint our background, then following our numeracy lesson on ‘thick and thin’, we explored using varying thicknesses of paintbrush to paint our tree trunk, branches and twigs. To finish, we used autumn colours to print our autumn leaves with spools and corks.
We have nearly finished our ICT minibeast presentation and we can't wait to share it with you.
We also participated in a Nuture in 5 lesson using yoga exercises and breathing techniques.
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