Matariki

Family names in Mandarin

Today we played a game to help us learn some mandarin words.

Exploration of instruments

Bridging the Gap

Some students were keen to build the Roman Arch:

We decided to explore more about bridges. Today we learnt about dead load (the bridge on its own) and live load (traffic on the bridge). We used a toy car, a bridge and a pair of kitchen scales to see how the load changes as the car moves from one end of the bridge to the other. We recorded our results in a table:

The Power of Pulleys

We have been discovering how pulleys work in our science lessons. We decided to set up our own pulleys in the classroom and sent messages and notes to our friends across the room. 

Lots of Learning

We  have had an exciting few weeks in the classroom!

We explored negative integers:

 We practised our cursive handwriting:

 We discovered the parts of a fish:

We taught our friends to knit:

We concentrated on cubing numbers:

We built parts of the digestive system out of clay: