What we did in our science this week!

They had to explain what they did and how they did it, using words like definition, application and operation!

We Looked at and Responded to the work of several artists while exploring the theme of apples.

We used our usual questions and concept skills and also some of our own, remembering past art work at school or works we know from other art classes and adventures outside school.

Thanks to Cas McCarthy for her inspiration for some, and visits to museums and galleries for others.

We got our art pallets out- the ones Joe Mongan made for the school almost twenty years ago are still going strong!

We placed Tony Dunne’s father’s apples centre table, found the light source and got colour mixing. Thanks for the apples, they went onto make apple jelly!

We painted the apples from observation (one of the key objectives of the visual art curriculum, and an accelerator through the stages of drawing development)

The children made amazing, unique and individual pieces reflecting a maturity in their work that’s quite remarkable.

We are superb artists!

Crunch!

Today we used a maths trail to undertake some real-life maths, and a handy assessment-for-learning tool for the teacher. We have started the year well.

Needless to say we are brilliant in Errew!

Away we went to the walls of the Community Centre to see what we could spy! We had finished our first studies on igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, and were out to see if we could find some fossils.

Many fairies were spotted, and a wonderful poem, and some fossils! Success!

Back at base camp, we made diagrams of our planet, the rock cycle and handed out some very cool rock samples for all to see in our room.

We also had a good discussion about the massive geode in the Rock Shop, it’s a hit for many! Thanks to AJ for the hot tip!

We went back across the road to the Community Centre, armed with some new data in our minds!

We had classification categories and were ready to dig and find!

Next, our posters! Stand by for our display! We had to stop today, to have our evening play in the sun!

The marble came from a cave in Spain!

To finish…

We had some volcanic eruptions and made some plasticine planets!