We started this week by looking at the Chinese New Year.
One of our pupils brought in lots of beautiful Chinese items to help us celebrate the Year of the Ox.
Mrs Hancock has been looking at symmetry. Do you think this pattern is symmetrical?
We were learning to make observations of our investigation.
We added some water to an alka seltzer in a film cannister.
Some of us gave it a stir.
We put the lid on next.
What do you think happened next? I will give you a clue - we had to stand well back!
Then we shared our observations with the rest of the class.
We are always practising our times tables.
Each week we get a little bit faster.
We wrote poems based the count down to a rocket launch.
The rest of the class helped us perform our poems.
We had been listening to real astronuats talk about how they felt during launch.
Some people in the class still want to be astronauts when they grow up!
We tried to use lots of brilliant adjectives.
In maths we learned how to read bar charts and used a website called Education City to practise reading the charts.
As it was the end of the Solar System project we had a fun quiz to test our knowledge based on Who Wants to be a Millionaire. The Soviet team won a million pounds!
During gym we played cats and mice. Everyone wanted to be a cat.
We had to practise touching our toes if we got caught.
Some of the girls played in a netball tournament at the weekend. There are two girls missing from the photograph. They all did very well against some fierce competition.