Elm Class

On Wednesday 31st January, we completed a SAW day on Materials and their Properties with a focus on Ice! 

We created a Winter scene picture using paint and tissue paper. 

We wrote a descriptive piece of writing from a scene from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe where the character Lucy sees Narnia for the first time. She enters into a Winter Wonderland, so we imagined we were her and used adjectives, noun phrases and adverbial phrases to help us. 

For the Science part of our day we made ice cream in a bag! We used salt to reduce the freezing point of the ice which helped to freeze the cream in the bag. 

Today we went for a walk around the village to practice our Map Skills. We plotted the different buildings and features we saw around the village. We created a key and map symbols to show what features were on our route that we walked.

On Wednesday in Science we began our new topic Properties and Changes of Materials. We had different materials in bags and used adjectives to describe how they felt through the bag. Once we found out what the materials were, we then tested the flexibility, permeability, hardness, magnetism and transparency. We worked together to understand materials and what makes them unique. 

Elm class took part in their Mundford Junction with a focus on reading and doing some Christmas Crafts! Miss Spearpoint spoke to parent about the importance of reading at home and rather than just listening to their children read talk to them about the content of what they are reading. She challenged the grown ups to take some cards home with some ideas on to help Elm class with their comprehension skills! 

We then made some straw stars, pipe cleaner reindeers and Christmas Tree pop-out cards.

Today in Elm we completed a SAW (Science, Art and Writing) day all about The Moon. We created a double page spread about The Moon and it’s phases. We also made wheels, showed the phases by using biscuits and also wrote some descriptive writing about the surface of The Moon.