Carmelo the Science Fellow
Here is a link to YouTube that enables you to access 25 of Carmelo’s science experiments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF0elA6mzmg&list=PLLALQuK1NDrjWtEgCx_lAKrBpGtb8c0sV
Below is the link to the ‘Polar Bear Hands’ experiment:
Big Garden Birdwatch
Count the wildlife that’s counting on you!
Below is a link to the RSPB webpage. From here you can click on the ‘MENU’ tab and it will allow you to look through the identification sheets and look at some other really interesting information.
Below is a link to the form for the Big Garden Birdwatch which takes place next weekend. Your homework next weekend (28th – 30th January) will be to take part in the Birdwatch. This weekend, start to familiarise yourself with the different species of birds. Choose one species that interests you and produce a piece of independent research about it. Explore the RSPB website to find all the information you will need.
Spelling Strategies
Here is a photo of our class whiteboard showing the list of different spelling strategies we discussed in our spelling lesson today. Your homework is to choose 5 of these strategies and use them to learn 10 of the words you got wrong in the recent test – 2 words per strategy. Make sure you find out the correct spellings of your chosen words!
Ancient Egyptian Workshop
Yesterday we had another visit from Catherine Hammond from Epping Forest District Museum. This time we learned about what artifacts from a tomb can tell us about the Ancient Egyptians. We had to be detectives and use our research to deduce who was buried in this particular tomb!
Write about the workshop and add to the Blog as a comment. What did you do? What did you learn? What did you enjoy?
Today in our History lesson………
…we were finding out about the painstaking work of archaeologists by ‘excavating’ the chocolate chips from cookies, using cocktail sticks. Our challenge was to do so without breaking either the chocolate chips (representing the artifacts) or the cookie (representing the surrounding dig area)!