Sunny Days

This week we made the most of the great weather and completed a number of maths lessons outside. It's just as well it was sunny because measuring volume and capacity using sand and water would have made quite a mess indoors!

One of our writing lessons this week concentrated on descriptive writing and using interesting words. Students were provided with an image and were then required to creatively write about what they saw. They only had ten minutes to write but the quality of writing was excellent. Here are some samples:

Did you know that last night I saw a scary and big black scaly beak of something with big yellow eyes? Its mouth was open like a big hole in the ground. Who would want to be afraid of a tawny frogmouth? by Ella

I can see a very hairy, little cute and fluffy tawny frogmouth. It has very yellow, cute but strange eyes. It’s got white, black and brownish feathers. His beak is sort of yellowish and beige. The tawny frogmouth is enclosed. Sadly. by Casey

A very hairy monkey is sitting up a tree staring with its scary eyes. It has ginger fur with white around its face. It’s sitting on a ginormous tree. by Kaitlyn

In science this week we saw the reaction of mixing dish washing detergent with milk. We observed amazing results and spectacular colours (see photos and video below).

I have been impressed by the creative work 2D has completed in ICT with Mr Sharp. Here is a video of what they have been working on.

This week we will revisit fractions in maths, continue persuasive writing and perform more exciting science experiments. Have a great week!