As part of International week, we have been exploring the different cultures and countries that our families are from. We have discovered that we have children from all around the world from the continent Asia to Africa to Europe. We have learnt lots about the different countries and we are currently writing fact files about the countries and cultures in our class. We have enjoyed sharing some special items, pictures and clothes from our cultures.

We are looking forward to our ‘Celebrating Differences’ party on Friday!

As part of International Week, our children in year 5 learnt that there are seven continents on our planet: Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Europe, North America, South America and Oceania/Australia. They learnt that these seven continents varied in size.

They brought in artefacts that represented their cultural background to share with the class. Some children chose to share some facts that they had researched about their heritage while others brought in objects, pictures, clothing and jewellery.

Year 4 have been learning about the human body and how to look after our teeth. We completed an experiment to investigate how different liquids effect our teeth. To represent the enamel on our teeth we used egg shells and placed them in different liquids such as, milk, water and coke. After a week, we removed the eggs shells from the  liquids to show the effects of sugar on our teeth. 

This week we have been learning about directions and patterns. We have learned that patterns have rules. Some patterns have easy rules and some patterns have hard rules. In direction we have learned that anti-clockwise is left and clockwise is right. We know how to do a half turn, quarter turn, three quarter turn and a whole turn.

Sometimes we use north, east, south and west to help us with our turns. You can have 2 or 3 of the same pattern of shape but you can change the colour of the shape. For a example you need 5 different things in one pattern. For a example you could have blue, pink, purple orange and it repeats one more time. Did you know that there is a right angle and they are a quarter turn clockwise and anti-clockwise. From Ellis and Ismael in Year 2.

We have been  finding the radius and diameters of circles.  We had to use a formula to calculate each. Did you know the radius was half the diameter ( r=1/2d )?  therefore the d=2r

We also enjoyed using a pair of compasses to draw circles.