Chapter one celebrations in MT

A massive well done to all the children who took part in Chapter one! You have showed so much progress with your reading this year. We all celebrated them today where they spoke with their volunteers on line and received their certificates. We all loved listening to and performing the poem at the end! Thank you to the chapter one representative, Lauren, she has been an amazing support this year 🙂

Charcoal Art

This week, Crew Hamill have made a start on Case Study 3 – Art. In our first lesson, we have explored our focus artist of Henry Moore who is famous for being commissioned to produce charcoal drawings of coal miners. We then had a go at experimenting with the medium of charcoal ourselves using different techniques, seeing what effects we could create. Some of us even attempted to draw with it!

What happens to chalk when it is exposed to different types of weathering?

Today we carried out an experiment to investigate what happens to chalk when it is exposed to different types of weathering. This investigated represented the three different types of weathering: biological, chemical and physical. We set up our experiment by pouring water (physical weathering) into a cup and vinegar (chemical weathering) into the other. We put the chalk into the cups and set a timer for 5 minutes. We observed what happened to the chalk during the 5 minutes. We then used a piece of sandpaper to lightly rub the piece of chalk for 30 seconds. We concluded that the chalk in the vinegar changed the most because after the 5 minutes in the vinegar it had holes and slight cracks in it. The chalk in the water didn’t have any changes after the 5 minutes.

Peter Thorpe Artwork

This week the children in Crew Robson have worked hard to create a piece of artwork based on the work of Peter Thorpe.

They have created several drafts and have given and received critique to improve their work each time.
Today we put the finished touches to our artwork by adding the Moon and a rocket zooming through space.

The children were so proud of the artwork they created and I am so proud of them too!

Consolidating Maths Learning

Today, Crew Hamill consolidated their maths learning on the transition of shapes as we found it a little bit tricky during our first lesson. We began by playing a game in which we had to get a monster around the grid in order to eat all of his lunch. Once we had worked out how to get to each item individually, we worked in pairs to create a maze that the monster could follow to collect all of his meal items in one trip. Following this, we completed a MyMaths lesson to demonstrate our improved understanding. We are now ready to move on to our next maths lesson tomorrow.