KS2
Take a look at what we’ve been up this first half term!
We have been exploring maps and the world through our big question: Who are you and where do you come from? We have spent a lot of time this half term exploring the world through maps, atlases and globes, thinking about continents, countries, cities and states and labelling the world’s ‘invisible’ lines such as: the Prime/Greenwich Meridian, the equator, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and so on!
Our class book has been ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’ by Onjali Q. Raúf and we focussed a lot of our learning on refugees and the perilous journeys they make to escape war and conflict. Through this text, we wrote refugee poems inspired by Christina Rossetti’s ‘Wind’ poems, letters and diaries!
In Science, we have been exploring the human digestive system including teeth and we had the chance to compare human teeth to that of herbivores and carnivores and conduct a crazy investigation to explore the effects of fruit juices, cola, water and milk on our teeth (although we used marble chips instead of our precious teeth to experiment with)!
We headed outside for some outdoor Maths too and estimated amounts using the leaves. We worked together to make a pile of leaves and estimated the amount we had. Miss Cashmore gave us 2 minutes to try and count how many leaves we had. After two minutes, we changed our estimations based on what we now knew. So some of us had counted about half so knew that total must be double the amount they had counted and so on!
In Science, we have been exploring ‘States of Matter’ – solids, liquids and gases. For our investigation, we wanted to see if heat has an effect on evaporation (liquid turning into a gas). So, we measured out 100ml of water into two beakers and left one near the window and radiator, where the water would be in a warmer environment and one near the classroom door, where the water would be in a cooler environment. We predicted that the warmer environment would cause evaporation to happen quicker and we were right, as each day the amount of water in the warmer cup of water was getting less and less – much faster than the cooler cup of water!
