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As part of our science IDL, we have been focussing on thee states of matter: solids, liquids and gasses. In our last experiment, we made a gas and trapped it in a balloon! This time, we investigated the melting point of chocolate to introduce melting as a changing state and wrote our science reports.
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 More sharing today, developing listening and talking skills. We very much enjoyed seeing and hearing about the Pokémon.  P4/5 are becoming experts at their rotations, smoothly transitioning between each activity. This morning we had: Weekend News- to write a personal recount or in imagined personal recount, including WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, thoughts and feelings and using adjectives effectively. Finger Gym- developing fine motor skills and strength in hands to develop their grip and control of a pencil when writing. Reading/ Partner Practice- reading new words with pace, using clues to understand new words, finding information to answer questions and using understanding of punctuation to read aloud with expression. P4/5 continuing to develop their confidence and listening and talking skills. Please keep bringing in things to share or a story to read :) As part of our States of Matter IDL, P4/5 observed an experiment on Monday before working in teams to try it out for themselves! They were investigating a gas and making/trapping a gas. It involved great teamwork using the instructions to investigate themselves and excellent discussion about what they did, the reaction and their observations. Today we developed our scientific vocabulary writing up our reports! In previous weeks, we have been developing our understanding of sentence structure and punctuation through Hold a Sentence activities. Today we started up-levelling a sentence instead. The children took a very boring sentence and added adjectives and changed the verb to make it much more interesting!  P4/5 started their science IDL by looking at three different States of Matter. We role played atoms in a gas, a liquid and solid to support discussion about the properties of each. They then used this to sort different images into a solid, a liquid or a gas. There was a lot of confusion and good discussion around sand and sugar. Hopefully after the investigations, children will be able to say with confidence if sand/sugar is a solid or a liquid :) Today, P4/5 reviewed the Behaviours Cog. We had a very thoughtful and productive discussion, using scenarios to think of emotion words and then sharing behaviours we or a person may feel like doing when experiencing that emotion. They then chose four to record their thoughts about out.  We have had a few stories brought in this week and children have read it to the class. Please keep bringing them in, or if you would like to bring in an item to share about, that’s great too :)
More great sharing! Building their confidence and developing listening and talking skills. |
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