Blog Author: Helen Mackie

We made rainforest jars today. We put a few pebbles and some soil in a jar, watered it,  then added a few seeds and some moss. WE sealed the jars and put them on the window ledge. We hope they will start to grow over half term and we will be able to see the water cycle in action.

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We learnt different bow techniques and start pitch playing animal noises for Old McDonald

Mice - playing behind the bridge

Sheep - Double Stopping (playing chords G + D together

Bees/Butterflies - String crossing at top of bow

Cows - Siren - Slide finger up G string      …

Imran told us all about Prophet Muhammad's life. We learned that he had a very hard life, his parents died so he was an orphan, and then his grandfather died too. Two angels washed Mohammad's heart and took a black bit out. Many years later Angel Gabriel told him he would be a…

Today we practiced basketball skills with Jordan from Barrow AFC.

We were inspired by The Great Kapok Tree.

Jordan from Barrow AFC did some hockey skills with us today.

We practiced dribbling with a partner and in teams.

We have been doing some amazing artwork using pastels ready to create our rainforest reading area.

We learned how to use an atlas. We found Brazil in the index then used the grid references to locate the capital city, the Amazon River and Amazon Rainforest.

Years 3 and 4 had lots of fun at our Christmas Part this morning. We had croissants, pain au chocolate and fruit then went into the hall for dancing and games. We even had a snowball fight!

We had a fantastic day at Kepplewray. The weather was kind to us and we all joined in with orienteering, den building, bush craft and team challenges.

We used boomwackers, glockenspiels and violins to investigate pitch. We discovered that the shorter the boomwacker (or note on the glockenspiel the higher the note. On the violins, the thinner the string the higher the note. Then we each made a set of panpipes using straws.