The children in Matisse and Riley class impressed us yet again last week, when they were required to isolate and work from home for a week. As always, we were greeted with positive and smiling faces over Google Classroom. Despite it being a challenging week, they all worked extremely hard, showing resilience and flexibility. We are so proud of them all.
Here's what we've been up to....
As historians, we've been further exploring why the Romans invaded Britain and whether we think the Romans were clever or criminal by their use of slaves. We've also been studying the picture book, Escape from Pompeii to learn more about the history of Italy.
As petrologists, we have been learning more about rocks. We set up an experiment to investigate which rock would be best suited to replace our roof at Windhill21: granite, chalk or slate? To test the permeability of the rocks we used a pipette to drop water onto each rock and observed what happened. We discussed how we could make it a fair test and took turns to read the instructions, take the measurements and record the results. We discovered that chalk was permeable so would not be a good material for a roof. Slate on the other hand was largely impermeable.
Next, we performed a scratch test on our rock samples to test the durability of them. We analysed the results and concluded that slate would be the best replacement for our roof!
In English, we've been writing our own traditional story based on the tale, The King of the Fishes. The stories were packed full of creativity and ambitious vocabulary!
In music, we had a go at learning and performing some tricky body percussion rhythms including 'Boom Snap Clap' and the Mambo Cup Rhythm. It took a lot of practice and patience, but we persevered!
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