Let's Get Growing

Our learning this term is based around the theme of growing. We started be thinking about what we would like to learn and what we already know - you can see our learning questions in the classroom. We have been learning the story of The Enormous Turnip in storymaking and we have made some great storymaps to help us retell the story as well as doing some super writing.
We listened to this book and it inspired us to think of  how we could make things grow in our garden - we had lots of ideas!!
 So we decided to write a shopping list just like Eddie did in the book and then we went to Homebase in small groups to do our shopping. We have bought lots of different seeds, pansies, violas, stawberries and a tomato plant. We also bought some petunias -they were special ones for the Queen!!

We have already read instructions and planted some pumpkin and sunflower seeds. We are also experimenting with some bean seeds to see whether they will grow in just a wet paper towel ...
some of us think they will and some of us don't think they will - we will have to see whose predictions are right.

We are also excited about an experiment that is happening in Year 5. As part of our earlier learning about space and Tim Peake we applied to be part of  a very special experiment called


we have been sent  rocket seeds some of which have been on  the ISS with Tim Peake now scientists want us to help them find out whether being in space affects the seeds or not.The children in Year 5 have planted the seeds and we can't wait to find out what happens.

You can watch this film to learn more about the seeds.

Dinosaurs

Another part of our learning this term is based around dinosaurs. We have thought of some questions for our learning and we have set up a dinosaur investigation centre in our role play area. We have been busy making dinosaur posters and finding out facts about the different dinosaurs. This week we have talked about what dinosaurs eat and we have found out that meat eating dinosaurs were called carnivores and the ones that ate plants were called herbivores. We have been thinking about what we like eating what foods are healthy.
We have had visit this week from Molly's mum who is a dental nurse, she talked to us about how to brush our teeth properly and how to keep our teeth healthy.

Bird Watch

We made bird feeders to hang in our garden to attract the birds - we have already seen several different birds including starlings, blackbirds, blue tits, sparrows, pigeons and magpies. We now seem to have a pair of starlings nest building under the roof!!!

 We also used playdough and different  natural materials to build our birds a nest.

Enterprise Week

We worked very hard during Enterprise Week making our delicious biscuits and decorating them carefully. We also learnt how to do wet felting and made some lovely magic wands as well as some useful notebooks which we sold with  alien topped pencils. After half term we found out that we had made lots of money which we were very proud about.

We also had some visitors during Enterprise Week - Mrs Wise came to talk to us about her job as a pig farmer and we also found out about being a bus driver when Damory  brought a bus to show us and we all got to sit in the driver's seat and get our own bus ticket!!

Space Mission

This week we have had  lots of space missions to complete in our Space Log. We started by taking photos  of each other wearing our space helmets and mission badges using the Ipods  and printing them out to put in our log. We watched a film about space food and found out how food is prepared and eaten on the space station. We tasted some 'space' potato too.

 We have also been doing lots of training exercises like the astronauts do before they go to the space station.

astronaut tunnel crawl

                       we had to do as many star jumps as we could - it was hard work

 we had to do sit ups and bench presses to improve our astronaut strength

 this was where we were working on our throwing and catching skills - you have to be good at catching things on the space station

                                                              astronaut agility

After all our training this week we should make very good astronauts!!