Writers of the Week

We have got a little bit behind with our Writers of the week again, so it's time for a catch up!

Our last winner was...

Lucie!

Lucie wrote a fabulous "In the Universe" poem, with some amazing descriptions. A highlight of her poem was her fantastic use of similes. Here is her poem...

In the Universe...
The Angel falls is a wall of fresh, clean water, it is stunning.

In the Universe...
The Great Wall of China stands there and poses like a statue.

In the Universe...
Pluto sits and thinks and thinks about all of his memories about being a planet.

In the Universe...
The Cartwheel Galaxy is spinning in circles like a ballet dancer.

Earlier in our "Space" topic...

Hannah

wrote a fabulous riddle to describe a planet. She used her knowledge from her science work, and combined it with some marvellous descriptions to create her riddle.

Our Trip to The National Space Centre

To finish off our amazing topic on space, yesterday we went on a trip to The National Space Centre in Leicester.

We had a really brilliant time, and got to explore lots of very exciting things. We all found out more about space, but it definitely also showed just how much we had already learned! Here are some photos of our day...



We are very sad to se the end of this brilliant topic, (but as our new topic is "Cracking Contraptions," Mrs Davies is sure we can still manage to find some links to space!)

Please leave a comment about our day at The Space Centre.

More Moon Landings

Today we learnt more about the Moon landings. Children worked to describe the events in imaginative ways. Here is a video of Michael's description, he uses some great wow words!

Pearl Class Science Projects

Today we were very lucky to be invited to the Pearls Class, to view their science projects. As they have also been learning about space it was really useful for us to be able to ask lots of questions, but we also got to share some of our own knowledge!

We all liked different projects the best, but we definitely agreed that they were all brilliant, we were very impressed! Well done Pearls!

Moon Landing

In history this week we have been learning about the 1969 Moon Landing. 

Michael's mum. very kindly, lent us some newspapers from the time which we were very excited to look at! They were very delicate and had been carefully kept for many years, so Mrs Davies was a bit nervous! Thank you Michael's Mum.

We also watched videos of the moon landing, and some TV interviews from the time. Then we did lots of different drama. Orange group acted out the landing, Green and Purple groups imagined they were the astronauts and interviewed each other, and Blue group worked on the ipad to make an animation of the landing!

 

Hopefully we will be able to add some of green and purple groups interview videos later!

In the Universe

This week we found a fabulous website which really made us think about how big the universe is.

Scale of the Universe

Although we didn't understand what some of the smallest, and largest things were we enjoyed exploring the site!

We enjoyed it so much that we decided to use our literacy time to write poems based on some of our favourite things in the universe. (Inspired by an idea from Pie Corbett.) We worked really hard to think of imaginative descriptions, and we even included some alliteration and some similes and metaphors!

Here is our class poem...

In the Universe

In the Universe...

Droplets of mist glide gently through the calm, cold air.

My smooth, delicate teapot sits on a sunny windowsill, brewing hot tea.

 The Angel Falls echo with the sound of splashes in the deep water below.

Pluto sadly reflects on his joyful memories of being a planet.

The sun shines like a precious, golden coin, brightening up everyone's day.

The stars in the Milky Way glitter like gemstones on a gorgeous necklace.

The children have all added their own poems in the comments section. Please read them, and let us know what you think!

Earth, Moon and Sun

We have been learning more about the Earth, Moon and Sun. Today in Topic / ICT we played a great game to learn more about them!

Here is the link so you can play again at home...

Earth, Sun, Moon Game

Day and Night

This week we have been learning about why we have day and night.

Please watch this video to remind you what happens, then leave a comment about day and night!

Solar System Models

We have had a great first week learning about space. This week we foccused on our Solar System, and the planets in it. 

We finished the week by working together in groups making models of the solar system. It was a very busy afternoon, but the finished models were absolutely fantastic!

Welcome to Spring Term 1!

I'm really looking forward to this term, and I hope you are too. 

Our topic is...

Space

We will be learning:

History: The History of Space Travel

Science: Space and our Solar System

Literacy: Riddles & Non-Fiction-Explanations

RE: Miracles

Art: Space

ICT: Manipulating Images

PE: Swimming & Outdoor Games

Music: Alien Sounds