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Inspire Workshops May 2012
Year 3 have been learning all about our wonderful City of Birmingham.
All the children and teachers are in a school “House”, named after famous and influential Brummies! We all work hard to win house points for our team. It’s great fun!
House teams are;
JRRR Tolkien, Matthew Boulton, Joseph Chamberlain and John Cadbury.
Which house are you in?
For our workshop, Year 3 painted portraits of these important men, and also used clay to create replicas of famous Birmingham buildings and landmarks. Parents came along to join in the fun and we have discovered some great artists among them! Can you spot the replica Bullring Bull, Old Joe, Chamberlain Memorial, The Iron Man or the Selfridges Building in the photos?
Look at our Photo Gallery to see the children and adults at work.
Thank you to all the parents that came along to take part and support your children.
Miss Taylor, Year 3
As part of our topic on ’Bags’ we have looked at the process of recycling. We now understand how different materials are recycled and turned into something else that can be reused.
We also looked at a story called ‘Galimoto’ this story tell us about the life of a little boy from Malawi in Africa. He recycled old wires and bamboo to make a new toy truck. These toys are called galimoto toys.
We think that the little boy called Kondi was very clever and the story makes us feel very lucky because we can just go to a shop to buy a toy but Kondi wasn’t so lucky. Next week we will try to make our own gallimoto pictures.
On Thursday the 15th March 2012 for our topic work on animals, ‘Tropical Inc’ (http://www.tropicalinc.com/) visited the nursery children. We were all very excited!
First we talked about what animals we might be going to see. Some of us thought that we might see a dinosaur! Or even a crocodile or an elephant!
We talked about how to look after the animals and washing our hands when we had touched them.
We all went to the hall and sat in a semi-circle. First the lady brought out a snake. Haleema said” It’s very long!” and Mehroze asked why it was licking everything. The lady explained to us that it used its tongue to smell. Some of us were a bit scared to touch the animals but others were very brave, and we all had a turn in the end.
We also saw a bearded dragon, a hedgehog, a tortoise, an owl and even a meerkat which Mrs Hussain wanted to take home!
We all enjoyed seeing the animals and when we returned to nursery we drew pictures and wrote about what we had seen.
In Year 2 this term we have been having lots of fun being creative.
As part of our Literacy work on explanation texts we investigated the bread making process. Mr Crane and Mrs Mutchell’s classes took over the hall for the morning for our very own edition of ‘Ready, Steady, Cook!’
Our challenge was to be the first class to successfully weigh, measure, sieve, mix, knead and decorate 30 perfect bread rolls. The competition was judged by our very own celebrity judge, Mr Newman-Smith. After an exciting morning of learning and fun, the winning team was 2AC. Once the bread had been baked we were able to take it home to enjoy. Delicious!
Here are Mrs Ghatora and Mrs Hubbard with the finished rolls in specially designed packaging.
Also this term, our creative curriculum theme is ‘Transport’. We have spent the past few weeks designing a car for the ‘Wacky Races’. In ICT, we used a graphic artist program to design our vehicles. Then in design technology, we made prototypes, improved our designs and then used a range of measuring, cutting, sawing and joining techniques to construct the vehicles. When finished we tested our vehicles in science to see how to make them move in different ways.
Maybe you could make a car of your own?
Here’s what some of the children said…
“Our bread was really yummy!”
“I loved using the saws to cut the wood for the axels!”
“My best bit was making the car go down the ramp!”
“The wheels weren’t big enough so I made them bigger!”
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