House building for the Three Little Pigs!

As part of our materials topic, Squirrels and Badgers joined together for a fun and messy afternoon building houses for the three little pigs! Authentic straw and sticks were used along with Lego for bricks. The children used ingenious methods to make their houses as strong as possible. Ideas ranged from building a house of straw in the corner of the room for extra protection, weaving the straw to make it stronger, carefully stacking sticks of appropriate lengths and intertwining them  to following real life brick patterns to give the brick houses even more stability. 

We were even visited by the Big Bad Wolf who huffed and puffed (with the help of a hairdryer!) but did NOT blow any of the houses down!!! Well done Squirrels you outsmarted the wolf with your carefully planned and built houses!

Night

We worked together to recall facts about night. Then we had to choose and use the best words in the best places to create a poem.

Owls silently swooping in the night sky,

Smoothly drifting down to grab their prey.

Black and white badgers snuffling in the undergrowth.

Animals quiver and quake as the predator approaches.

Robbers slinking about, up to mischief.

Security guards shining torches and calling in their crackly walky-talkies.

Train drivers controlling the engines. Eating up the dark miles.

Sparkly fireworks sizzling in the inky pitch sky.

Luminous lights leading us to safety.

Hi-vis jackets glimpsed beyond the distant horizon.

Starry constellations guiding you back home.

Carroll diagrams

We have been learning how to use Carroll  diagrams for sorting. We sorted ourselves, then sorted shapes and other objects. 

Yellow and not yellow, dinosaurs and not dinosaurs.

Blue and not blue, squares and not squares. Then we changed it to four corners and not four corners.

"This is red and not red, vehicles and not vehicles."

"Purple and not purple, dinosaur and not dinosaur."

"Ours is circle and not circle, small and not small."

"This one is red and not red, four sides and not four sides."

"Me and Connor sorted orange and not orange, dinosaurs and not dinosaurs."

Night

We thought all about night.

We decorated the word night with our ideas.

Oslo then did the same with some more night words, he chose moon and stars.

Katie's coding

Katie used the Espresso coding program to make Jack climb up a beanstalk!

Science spectacular

We had fun with science today. We used milk, food colouring and washing up liquid. Our results were not quite as we expected but we still had a brilliant time mixing lots of colours! 

Here is a link to the film we watched so you can try it out for yourself at home. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rqQSlEViNpk     Or google milk, food colouring, detergent.

We decided that we should have used cream instead of milk as it is thicker. Have fun investigating.

    

Quaker Wood.

The Squirrel and Badger classes spent a lovely morning at Quaker Wood yesterday. The volunteers had organised four fab activities for us to do. We did tree measuring, a nature quiz, story telling and bird hunting. Thank you to all the volunteers and helpers for a great morning.