2011: Our Buddies

Our buddies are Year 6 students from Room 13. Their teacher, Stephen Gordon, brings our buddies down to our class every Friday at about 11AM. Our buddies support us on the mat during the introduction of the new Big Book. Afterwards they help us trace over some high-frequency words and then we draw and colour a picture together. We love to learn about what our buddies are doing in their class, so every now and then, Mr. Gordon, encourages them to bring something that they have worked on in Room 13, to share with us. We think that they are very clever, and we love them.

Ambury Farm

We went on the bus to Ambury farm as part of our topic studies. Room 4 watched the cows being milked and the sheep being shorn. We fed the hens and patted the calves.

2011: Fancy Feet Day

It was Fancy Feet day on Friday. Students were encouraged to walk to school, and it was a big success. Later, some senior students visited the classes and chose the best three fancy feet from each class. Isobel chose Carlos, Zara and James from our class. They went to the hall to have their photo taken, and they got a sticker and a tattoo as a prize. Well done to everyone who made their feet fancy.
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Here are the Room 4 winners:

2011: Book Week - Book Character Parade

To celebrate the end of Book Week, we got dressed up as our favourite character and had a book character parade. Have a look at our photo's:
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2011: Book Week - How many books did we read?

Every time we read a book during book week, we filled in the details of the book in a fruit shape, and stuck the fruit shape to our fruit tree. At the end of the week, we all got a certificate for reading so many books during the week. Have a look at our photo's:

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2011: There's a mouse in the house!

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2011: Art - Painting Techniques

Here we are trying out some of the different painting techniques:

2011: Topic - Define Map (SOLO Taxonomy )

We added pictures to our Define Map today. Our focus was "invertebrates". We learnt that we must put all the creatures that do not have a back bone, in the "Relevant" area of the Define Map, and that we must put all the creatures that do have a back bone, in the "Not Relevant" area of the Define Map.
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2011: Art - Our Butterflies

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Look at the end result ... our beautiful butterflies have hatched out of their chrysalises, and are now hanging from the net in our classroom!

2011: Art - Our Moths

We used three different painting techniques with this art work. First we splattered the black backing sheet with white paint. This formed the stars in the night sky. Next we painted our moths using different shades of brown. Next, we painted a light beam, by dry brushing yellow in the corner. Next we painted the black vein lines on our moths. Look at our beautiful moths flying towards the light beam:

2011: Topic- Life Cycle of a Butterfly

We coloured in the four pictures to make a Life Cycle of a Butterfly spiral - the egg, the caterpillar, the chrysalis and the butterfly.

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2011: Friday Maths - Measurement

We focus on the Number Strand every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday during our Math lessons, and then we focus on one of the other Strands every Friday (Measurement, Geometry, Algebra, Statistics).

Have a look at the photo's of us measuring our bodies with our hands:
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Have a look at the photo's of us measuring our bodies with rods:

2011: Friday Maths - Capacity

It was a beautiful, warm and sunny day. Perfect for experimenting with water and containers. A fun way to develop an understanding of capacity.

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2011: Friday Maths - Statistics

We thought about our favourite colours and then did a bar graph to show which colour was liked most, and which colour was least like.

This is what we found:

Next we thought about our favourite toys, and then did a bar graph to show which toys were most liked, and which toys were least like

This is what we found:

Next, we did our own bar graphs. We looked at our timetable and put the different activities that we do at school in order. We also thought about the clothes we wear when it is hot, cool or cold, and we put the pictures of clothes in the correct columns. Have a look at our photo: