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Week ending 19th April
Posted: Apr 21, 2024 by: Elaine Matthews (EMatthews) on: Class 4
Good evening everyone!
Class 4 had a great week last week! Our new topic of Ancient Egyptians is now well underway and we're all loving every minute! We began the week with our new text 'The Egyptian Cinderella' and initially focused on developing some role play based on the text. The children then compared the text with the traditional story of 'Cinderella'; they were amazed how many similarities and differences they were able to find.
Art involved practising Egyptian decorative patterns ready for creating their own Ancient Egyptian headdresses for display!
History involved learning many interesting facts surrounding early life around the River Nile. The children learnt many facts about the importance of the Nile for daily life in Ancient Egyptian times; for farming, washing and leisure for example.
In PSHE, the children have completed a 3D pyramid each (very well decorated of course) and have then written lovely positive comments for each other and have added these to the insides of their pyramids. The children really love them; it has been great to see how supportive the children are of each other.
Science was very busy this week; in order to recreate the water cycle, the children have re-sewn their cress seeds as our latest ones failed to germinate for some reason!! I have never come across this happening before!! We're hoping for lots of cress and lots of condensation this week! The children have then been using thermometers to check the temperature of boiling water and also the temperature at which butter and chocolate melt; they have loved it. The fact that they used the chocolate to create very tasty crispy buns did help a great deal!!
More busy activities next week! Hope you are all having a lovely weekend and have thoroughly enjoyed the warmer weather!
See you Monday,
Mrs Matthews & Mrs Pearce
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