There's a bag.

How did it get here? Who does it belong to? What can we tell about it?

"It is like Paddington's suitcase."

"It looks old because it is all scratched and banged up"

"It has been made by stitching it, that's not how they make bags now, they have wheels and handles."

"It has an F and N on the front."

"That might stand for someone's name."

Should we open it? Unanimous decision. Yes! But put protective gloves on just in case.

 A lantern. "It looks very old, maybe from an old war so they could see in the dark."
"Maybe this is a soldiers bag."

 A long skirt. "So we know FN must be a lady."

 A letter! From a lady called Florence. 

"That is the same as the letters on the bag!"

Charlie and Tiegan have heard of the name Florence Nightingale, perhaps that is our owner.

 She is leaving her family to travel by boat to a hospital.There is a war. She wants to be a nurse!

 The letter is dated October 1854. We work it out, it is 162 years ago.

 A map. "There are places on it, France, England, Italy, Turkey, Scutari, Crimea and Russia."
"Maybe that is where she went for the war."

  A hat. "It's a maids hat."
"No its a nurses hat."

 A sash. "It's like a mayor wears." 

The sash reminds Jude of a mayors sash and he models this sash to show us. But this one says Scutari.

 An apron. "so when she is doing operations she doesn't get blood."
A shawl. "It will be cold where she went." "They might fight for a long time she might be there a long time."
A blouse. "It is a whole nurse uniform from long ago."

 Autumn helped Lauren dress into the clothes.

Willow helped Lauren with the shawl.

And the sash, hat and finally the lamp.

 All dressed up.

Just like a lady called Florence who went away to be a nurse in a war. She was around 162 years ago.

I wonder what we will discover next!

Sleep over

Douglas has spent a lovely evening with Chloe and her sister. He enjoyed sharing story time with them especially with such a fantastic selection of books.

Douglas felt very safe and happy with Chloe and liked spending time with her much more than being on his own in the classroom.

Tiger Facts

This term we have been researching all about tigers. Finding out information from their habitat, their family life, threats and dangers they face, eating and hunting to their appearance and how they move. We have asked and answered questions along the way. Our trip to Banham Zoo gave us more information too.
With our Learning Partners we have planned and created a fact sheet on the computer. We needed to type then agree to change the font, colour and size of our writing. Our sheets had to include a bold title, sub headings, information written in sentences, causal connectives and photographs.

Rubbish Tigers

No really they are, these are our terrific tigers made entirely out of rubbish! 

We collected junk that would otherwise have gone in the recycling or rubbish bin.

We think they are fantastic.

Fractions

We have been finding fractions. We had fun finding half, quarters and thirds. We even found eighths and sixteenths! 

We had to do some accurate folding.

We wrote some fractions and discovered when the top and bottom number are the same that means the whole lot. 

We used counters to show amounts like 3 quarters, 4 sixteenths and 7 eighths. We found that sometimes the same fraction can be written in different ways like half or two quarters, 4 eighths or 8 sixteenths.