Measurement Mocktails

This afternoon we were making mocktails using all of our measurement skills. They were absolutely delicious!

How do states of matter change?

This afternoon, we were set a challenge from Miss Melinn which asked us to look at 'How do states of matter change?' In order to do this, we melted butter, baked cakes and melted chocolate then waited for it to set. 

During this process, we made predictions and recorded our results and then discussed our results to create a conclusion at the end.

Making Pizzas

Last week, we made pizza videos to put on YouTube to look deeper into our essential 'What keeps the world entertained?'

We even made sure we cleaned up!

And then we got to eat the pizzas - yum!

Handwriting

We've been trying really hard with our handwriting ready to apply this next year in year 4.
Here are some of our examples:

Yoga for children

On Friday, Liz (who is a qualified Yoga instructor) came in to visit class 7 and to deliver an interesting Yoga session. After learning the neat and tidy pose, class 7 then got to warm up Yoga style, and stretched every muscle imaginable. Once warm, the students got to release some energy with a game of what’s the time Mr Wolf. Once finished, class 7 warmed down using several stretches and then got to have a little rest whilst the butterfly came (held by Liz) to help the students relax.

Dog's trust workshop

Today, Sarah and Lyra (the dog) came into class 7 to do two things; teach class 7 about how to be comfortable and safe around dogs, and in Lyra’s case, to show-off her amazing tricks! Sarah explained about the different things we can and cannot do with dogs, for example what not to feed her, and to allow the dog to sniff you before you stroke them. Then Lyra took centre stage and show class 7 some mind-blowing tricks – but only to get the delicious snack as a treat. Class 7 really engaged with the workshop, and learnt so much about being with dogs.

Parts of a sentence

Today we were learning about different parts of sentences. The vocabulary we were using included main clauses, phrases, subordinate clauses, subordinating and co ordinating conjunctions. We looked at how parts of a sentence could be added together to create different types of sentences too.

We found out about the following sentence types:
- Simple sentence
- Compound sentence
- Complex sentence

After playing some games and complete some challenges, we had a go at answering a few of the Y6 SATs SPAG questions. We were shocked at how good we were at answering these questions and we were actually EXCITED for our SATs in 2 years time!

Which material is the best at muffling sound?

During this lesson we create an experiment to find out which material was the best at muffling sound. We chose a tube, then a material and put the material in the tube. After that, we spoke at a normal talking level through the tube and rated the material based on how good it was at muffling. To keep it a fair test, we kept the tube the tube the same, spoke at the same volume each time and used the same size piece of material each time.

As an extra challenge, we then changed the tube and carried out the test again. it was interesting to see how the results differed! Look in our books to read the results and conclusions.