How do people use water?

This week we continued our geography case study by exploring the reasons why humans use water. We learned that water is used for drinking, agriculture, leisure, transportation, making electricity and as habitats for animals and plants. As well as exploring the uses of water, we also learned about the impact this can have on the environment. In some cases this can be positive, however, in others it can be negative.

Writing – Experience Day

In our experience day, we had the chance to explore the story that we’ll be using as a stimulus to help us write. Due to the story being a picture book, we had to make inferences about what we thought was happening based on the images. We then used some of the pictures to complete a silent conversation which allowed us to shared our notices, feelings and actions we could see in the images.

Drawing Bar Charts

In maths this week, we have continued on with our statistics unit and learned how to draw bar charts. During input, we had an opportunity to demonstrate our understanding before going into our books.

First and Second draft

As with any piece of art work, it’s essential that we have time to draft and redraft our work. By critiquing and reworking, then that’s when improvements can be made to the piece. It was lovely to see the children take on board feedback so that they could improve their second draft.


Art Skills

Before we can attempt our first draft, it’s important that we understanding atheism mediums that we will be using. For our art, we will be using watercolour and acrylic so we needed to practice using these paints. We used the wet on wet, wet on dry and then dry on dry which showed us different effects.

Andy Warhol – Popart

In art, we started by learning about a new artist called Andy Warhol. We learned some key facts about him then explored his style of art which is popart. Popart means popular art. Once we had learned about the artist, we had the opportunity to critique some of his work using I praise, I notice and I wonder. We really liked the bright colours which we later learned are called contrasting colours. These are colours that complement each other but make them stand out and look vivid.

Understanding Tectonic Plates

To depend our understanding of tectonic plates and their movement, we used crackers and whipped cream to represent the tectonic plates and molten lava. We had the opportunity to move the plates so that when they moved away from each other the lave (cream) was able to seep through. This is what would happen with a volcano. We then rubbed the plates (crackers) together which represents what happens during an earthquake. Finally, we used the cracker and rice cake to show what happens when 2 plates push together. This is when mountains would be formed.

Tectonic Plates – Chotting

Today in writing, we have continued to build our knowledge about tectonic plates in preparation for when we write our next plot point. We watched some videos and chotted down loads of facts to support us in writing.

We then did a shared write which allowed Miss Shields to model how to put the facts into sentences.