We’ve been learning about melting and freezing by finding out about what ice cream actually is and then making our own in the classroom. Unfortunately, we then had to eat it but we did learn lots along the way including why it is really lucky that water does freeze.

Year 5 have been investigating water resistance by timing how long it took different shapes to fall through water. We found that having a smaller area helped the shaped cut through the liquid but we were quite surprised to learn that the rear of the shape was important too.

3AS have been developing their geography skills as they created a 3D landscape before choosing where to site the Stone Age village. We had to think about where a lake was most likely to form, where rivers would flow into it from and what resources the villagers would need access to. After surviving a flood (maybe we shouldn’t have built right next to the lake after all?) the villagers decided to construct a stone circle.

In maths we were estimating the weight of objects in the  classroom. We used real weights from 5g up to 1kg to help us. We also estimated the weight of a pineapple to see who could guess the closest weight.  These are our estimates:

L – 500g                     D – 510g

M – 500g                   H – 1kg

A – 560g                    R  – 565g

B – 1kg                         S – 1001g

B – 500g

The actual weight was 1269g! We ate the pineapple at breaktime – tasty and scrumptious!

Year 5 took part in their mainstream class assembly this morning.  It was a fantastic experience to watch – Miss Salisbury thought it was an excellent advert for the South American Tourist Board!  We did a carnival dance and at the end there was a LOUD BANG with confetti inside a tube. It made us jump!