Floating and Sinking

We have been learning about the Titanic. 

We designed a boat with plasticene and attempted to make it float. There was lots of sinking but we did have some successes too!

If we could make it float, we added people (dried peas) and counted until our ship sank.

 The class champion was Rosie with 51 people! Well done!

Data handling in Year 1 / 2

The children had great fun, working together to decide where the different fruits and vegetables needed to go in the Carroll Diagrams.

 

 

Estimating!

Today we have been learning how to estimate a set of objects and count to check how many there are.

 We looked at a group of items and had a clever guess at how many we thought there were. 

We wrote down our ideas as a group and then counted to see who was the closest.

As we were counting large numbers we put our items into groups of 10's and to help us to count more accurately.

Making boats!

 

   We have been learning about the Titanic. 

The Year One children had great fun trying to design a boat that would hold the most passengers.

The winning boat held 6 passengers ...... not quite as many as the Titanic but still very impressive.

Colour mixing!

Colour mixing!


Today we have been investigating how primary colours make secondary colours.

We used watercolours to mix red, blue and yellow in different ways and recorded what colours they made!

The children found out that: 

red and yellow makes orange 
blue and yellow makes green 
and 
blue and red makes purple!

Grace Darling Drama

Grace Darling 

We spent the afternoon listening to a radio broadcast telling the story of Grace Darling. 

We heard about her early life and the lead up to her daring rescue in 1838. 

We pretended to be Grace growing up, exploring the area around Longstone Lighthouse, Northumberland.

Being warned to be careful on the rowing boat while exploring the islands around the lighthouse

Pleading with her father to go and rescue the men at sea

Next week's lesson will involve the actual rescue, so check out the blog again to see our acting skills. 

We have investigated materials to  find a waterproof coat for Grace Darling.

Using different materials we enjoyed exploring the effects water had on them. We discussed what we needed to keep the experiment fair. At the end of the experiment, we decided plastic would be the best material to make the coat from as it is waterproof, flexible and strong!

We tested water onto each material and recorded the results.

We carefully measured 1 ml of water each time to keep the test fair.

We discussed our findings as we went along.

We took turns to record and explore.

 

Sorting

The Year 1's have been learning about 2D shape properties. They have been sorting the shapes into a Venn Diagram.

Tessellation

Tessellation

This week we have been exploring tessellation. 

A Tessellation is when we cover a surface with a pattern of flat shapes so that there are no overlaps or gaps.

 

We made regular tessellations with regular polygons.

           

We then made semi-regular tessellations using 2 or more regular polygons.

         

We then used carpet tiles and 2D shapes to create our own tessellating patterns.

Throwing and catching fun

Mr Toyne enjoyed PE in the sunshine this week.  The Year 1 and 2 children refined their throwing and catching skills and learnt how to put these to use in team games.