W/C 16th July
Our last full week in Willow Class has been spent researching, designing and building elevators. As we approach the end of the year, and the end of our Roald Dahl topic, we took some time to
W/C 16th July
Our last full week in Willow Class has been spent researching, designing and building elevators. As we approach the end of the year, and the end of our Roald Dahl topic, we took some time to focus on DT.
On Monday we spoke about what a structure is and researched famous structures from around the world. Using this, we created fact files in literacy and spoke about how our structures were made, where they were located and what they were used for.
We then split into 7 groups and were able to design a new elevator for Mr Wonka because his was about to go through the roof! We spoke about our designs and whether they were realistic, we were going to have to make them after all! We decided that automatic doors and working buttons were slightly too advanced given our limited time and resources and stuck with some simple, yet intriguing designs.
Finally, we got round to the fun stuff! We were given our wood and carefully measured out our pieces. We were then taken in groups to use the saws to cut our pieces out. We were surprised at how hard it was to cut, but we persevered until the end. We then investigated which material would be best to join our wood together and settled for PVA glue, reinforced by card triangles.
We then set to work!
W/C 9th July
As we approach the end of term, we have been working super hard to show off what we have been learning all year!
In Literacy we have been writing stories based on Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We have been using fronted adverbials, similes, conjunctions and some amazing adjectives to make our work more interesting. We have all tried really hard, with some of us writing over 2 pages of work a day! Miss Smith was so impressed.
In maths we have revisited perimeter. We started off by using shapes on squared paper and had to remember do not count the corners! We then moved on to working out the perimeter of shapes by using our adding up the lengths of every side. We use our column addition skills to solve difficult problems and embraced the challenges we were set.
On Friday we were lucky enough to visit Cadbury World! We loved pointing out the Aztec people and knew all about the making of chocolate from our production. It was great fun and hopefully the chocolate wasn't too melted by the time we all got home.
W/C 2nd July
In Literacy this week we have been finishing our planning for our stories. We have almost finished reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (just in time for the end of term!) and have been creating our own stories based on this. We have been looking at using powerful adjectives and have loved using mesmerising, dazzling, gargantuan and flawless.
In maths we have 