Fun with Fractions!
Fractions has been the focus of our maths lessons recently and this past week we have been ordering and comparing and finding equivalent fractions! Using a fraction wall has really helped us with this: here is a link to an interactive fraction wall to help your child at home!
Rock Detectives in Science!
Exploring the three different types of rocks and how they are formed was a fun start to our new science unit. After finding out about them in a video, the children had three rocks to look at closely with magnifiers, make scientific drawings with labels and try to identify which type they were: igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic! We think we have a few budding geologists now!
Clay Coil Pots...with handles!
We finished the week by being creative and learning how to make a coil pot out of clay. It proved much trickier than our thumb pots and the children showed great resilience, determination perseverance! We added handles too, learning how to hatch into the clay with a cocktail stick to create a rough surface to help the two surfaces stick together and used water as glue. Then we smoothed down the joins seal them and make them invisible.
It definitely paid off with Mrs Pyne saying "They are the best coil pots I've ever seen!".
Rolling coils
Smoothing out cracks!
Hatching
Pollock's finished coil pots!
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