Tom Gates’ Excellent Excuses, by L Pichon Tom Gates is a 9 year old boy who loves caramel wafers and he hates Marcus Meldrew. Marcus likes to annoy Tom. Also he loves doodling and his favourite band is Duck 3. He plays for a band called Dogzombies. He has got a sister called Delia and … Read more
It’s Book Week and many of the children have brought in their favourite books. They are presenting them to the class with a small talk about the book, its characters and author. So far our favourite books are: Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney The Secret Unicorn, Linda Chapman Mr Stink, David Walliams … Read more
Trying to rearrange, but not obscure the total face effect, Class 3/4 created some excellent versions of Picasso’s work. When it came to painting, the children had to paint straight onto the paper – not sketching first! Many of the children were very nervous about this, but they shouldn’t have been as the outcomes were … Read more
Over the past two weeks, Class 3/4 has been reading the first book in The Spiderwick Chronicles Series. Everyone has really enjoyed the book and meeting the main characters; Mallory, Jared and Simon, and were disappointed when it ended. For the first time, the class put together their own freeze frames as part of some … Read more
Class 3/4s Geography topic is ‘The Rainforests’ and this week we were looking at what food and medecines orginally came from the rainforests. The children were surprised to find that so much of what is in their kitchen cupboards orginally came from tropical areas. Sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, coconut, oranges as well as the bamboo basket … Read more
Build two small snowmen as identical as you can make them (to make it a fair test). Then wrap one in bubble wrap, but not the other. As the weather warms up and the snow melts, which snowman will melt first and why or why not? Make a prediction. Will you be right? If you … Read more
Mrs Burr gave each group in Class 3/4 a range of items and posed the class a question: What links them and what could our Geography project be? After some head scratching, wondering if monkeys and cows use body wash the class were on the right track with forests and finally discovered… …that the items … Read more
The class’ topic is ‘Keeping Warm’ and we decided to collect snow and measure its temperature every ten minutes to see how long it took to melt and reach room temperature. The children were careful not to touch the snow with their hands to cause additional melting. They then accurately read thermometers. It didn’t take … Read more
We put our left hands in ice cold water and our right in warm water for ten seconds. We then put both hands into a bowl of water at room temperature for another ten seconds. We were surprised at how our hands began to feel as the left, after being frozen off, started to feel … Read more
Happy New Year to all parents and pupils of Class 3/4 from Mrs Burr and Mrs Mackilligan. The Spring term is always a busy one with Water Safety and Swimming for the Year 4s and it is often a cold one too. Just as well our science topic is Keeping Warm. As a snap shot, … Read more
