Gravity Fields Trip

Today Eagle class and Owl class had a brilliant day in Grantham and Woolsthorpe as part of the Gravity Fields festival.

Eagle class firstly went to Woolsthorpe Manor where we met Isaac Newton and learnt a little bit about his life. We had look in his house and had the chance to explore some of his discoveries.

We then went to the George Centre in Grantham for a visit to the Apothecary. We learnt about cures such for baldness and how to see what ailment affected someone from their wee! We then got a bit messy making cures. 

Finally we walked to the Guildhall to see the 'Feel the Force' show which was an exciting and fun interactive presentation to teach us about Newton's theories. 

Thank you to Miss Magan and Mrs Arnold who helped us on our trip, as well as Mrs Williams and Mrs Daly. Eagle class you were really well behaved and a credit to our school. I had spoken with the class beforehand about  the move from the George Center to the Guildhall as it involved walking up Grantham high street and crossing 2 roads, therefore the best listening and behaviour was definitely needed- I am pleased to report that  this went very smoothly and Miss Chadwick was very relieved when we were all safely eating lunch in the Guildhall! Thank you for a lovely day Eagle. 

Science

After setting up our experiment and leaving them for a week, it was time to see what our egg shells looked like after being in different liquids. We were really surprised (and also a little disgusted) by the results. After spending time looking closely and the egg shells and making our observations, we then discussed what we could conclude from our investigation and related it to the importance of looking after our teeth!

Week 2 in Eagle Class

A summary of some of our learning from last week:

In science we set about investigating which liquid is worst for our teeth. To do this we decided to use egg shells and put them in different liquids to see what happens to them over the week. We  decided to investigate milk, water, coke, tea, vinegar, apple juice and blackcurrant squash. We discussed how to make it a fair test and predicted which we thought would be worse. We have already noticed some changes but will be looking closely on Tuesday to make our observations and draw some conclusions.

In history, we looked at an  image of a scarab pendant from the ancient Egyptians. We discussed what we could learn from this object. We were interested to find out about why the scarab beetle was important to the ancient Egyptians.

In art, we have started to design our own tomb paintings. We looked at the style of Egyptian art and drawings of the Gods. Our aim is to then paint these designs onto our own tiles.

If you have either of these things at home that you would be able to donate to us to help us with our  art work then we would really find it useful:

- If you have any rectangular containers at home, we would be grateful for these to make our plaster of paris tiles for our tomb paintings. Anything like plastic take away containers, rectangular ice cream tubs, sturdy shoe box lids etc would be ideal.
 - If you have any old shirts we could use as painting aprons, such as a short or long sleeved man's work shirts... these would also be appreciated :-)

First Week Back

Welcome to the first Eagle class blog of the new school year.

We had a really great first week, getting to know each other and our classroom. Most of our our activities for  this week were based around the idea of getting to know each other. We also did our first work to do with our Ancient Egyptian theme. With Mrs Walker for geography we created our own maps of Africa and marked Egypt and the countries surrounding it. We enjoyed this as we used collage materials to create and label our maps. These will go onto our Ancient Egypt display next week as a starting point for our learning this term.

On Friday afternoon we created some fabulous Ancient Egyptian inspired art. We discussed what image came to mind when we thought of Egypt and we came up with the pyramids (and mummies). We looked at pictures of pyramids at sunset and then created out own art work.

Firstly we created a sunset skyline using red, orange and yellow paints. We watered it down ourselves to make it more like a colour wash and were able to blend the colours into each other to create an effective background.

After these had dried we then added the pyramid silhouettes using either black paper or black paint. Some of us even had a go at creating camels and palm trees for our art work.

Some of our finished work hanging on display. 

Our Egyptian cartouches created during the class swap at the end of last year.
We wrote our name using hieroglyphics. 

At the minute all our 'Pyramids at sunset' art work is hanging in our classroom so next time you are in, please take a look.