Author: Miss Wilson

Yesterday, we made fraction pizzas! The journey started on Monday when we designed our delicious doughs and tasty toppings.

Next, it was time to get started!

We worked as a team to make the dough by reading the instructions, weighing and measuring.

Once the ingredients were in the bowl, it was time to mix! This was the really fun part!

Next came kneading to make the dough stretchy like elastic…

… and on to rolling and shaping into a rough circle.

Toppings time!

Ethan C said: “You’ll need to cut the cheese into sixteenths for our group.” After discussing that we would only need cheese enough for a block between two, he said, “OK- just eighths then!”

Talha said: “The best part was mixing the dough.”

The pizzas turned out brilliantly and I hope they were as good to eat as they were to look at. Well done, everyone!

Today we started our new class novel – Ottoline and the Yellow Cat. 

It was so exciting to have a copy in front of us! The artwork is incredible and we can’t wait to get stuck into the adventures of puzzle-solver Ottoline and her hairy sidekick creature, Mr Munroe. 

You can find out more information about the series on the author’s website.

(Challenge your child: why is there an apostrophe in “author’s”?)

This afternoon, we learnt a little more about electricity. We discussed what the symbols in a diagram of a circuit mean and what the circuit needs to work.

We used the scientific equipment to test in which circuits a bulb would light, explaining why they would or they would not. For example:

“In circuit A, the bulb would not light because the switch is open.” – Phoebe

Next, we investigated different materials to find conductors and insulators of electricity. Can your child remember their definitions? Here’s a hint: we found metal was the best conductor and plastic and rubber were insulators.

We found our circuits could be completed by a Kara- what a shocker!

“I can recognise emotions in myself and others.”

LO: I can create and debug algorithms.

“Today we did coding with Kodu where we had different characters. We changed the heights of them and the settings of them by left-clicking and right-clicking.” – Sami

“First we clicked Kodu and pressed program. Then we had to click When… keyboard. We clicked the little add and used WASD. We went on the Do which was move and we kept it on move.” – Yusayrah

Not only did we have a go at programming our Kodus to move using algorithms, we found a bug in a pre-written piece of code and said how to fix the problem – this is called debugging.

“First we looked at them both and saw that both were arrows. We needed to change one of them to WASD because if we had both as arrows, it would control both of them.” – Albie

 

“I found the most challenging part was to control the Kodu because you might have pressed the wrong button and it went into the Rover.” – Phoebe

“I found moving the land the hardest because you could move it into the wrong place and do the wrong things. Remember to press F4 to put it back to the middle.” – Jasraj

“My favourite part was getting the Kodu and the Rover. They are really cute and you can change their colours.” – Jemima

“My favourite bit was moving Rover because sometimes when Safiya-Mishal was helping other people I tried to do 360’s around our other Kodu.” – Noah

Next week, we’ll design other sequences of instructions to achieve a goal. The aim for the end of the unit is to create our very own games!

Today we made circuits! We had to make them complete in order for the bulb to light up. 

We made and tested predictions about what would happen if we added more batteries or more bulbs. 

We had to use the equipment carefully. 

We worked as a team. 

We also did some maths learning. We had to work out the total cost of different circuits using each component’s individual price. We also helped Miss Wilson find and correct her mistake in her own maths learning, too!

It was a great feeling when we were successful!

Last week we did some artwork based around different emotions. 

First, we planned different expressions in our sketch books and talked about what colour they reminded us of. 

Next was the fun part! We drew, painted and blew!

Can you guess what emotions are being shown in our artwork below?