Making Anglo Saxon amulets

We learnt that Anglo Saxon Pagans made amulets and used them as lucky charms.  They thought they would protect them in battles or stop them from being ill. People wore amulets around their necks or put them in their homes.  When the Saxons became Christians they often turned the Pagan temples into churches and made pagan festivals Christian.  This stopped pagans using them and showed that Christianity was stronger.  Amulets became crosses.



We made amulets and Sarah's one was  orange,  blue  and green  in the shape of a banana. Trinny's one was blue in the shape of a hammer. 

This is Trinny and  Sarah with their amulets. Sarah's banana and Trinny's hammer. 

 

 When were were making them extra children  came to Chesnut Class - we had  Rowan Class and some of Sycamore Class (a lot of  children!!!!!).

Maths capacity

Maths Capacity

We measured liquid in bottles. First we predicted the measurement in the bottles then we found the real measurement and wrote down the answer in our books. We would keep doing this until we had estimated and measured all the containers. 

Making Thaumatropes - do you know what a thaumatrope is?

Thaumatropes

We made some cool thaumatropes. Basically in the times when  they didn't have TV's, they used thaumatropes, because they looked like they were moving.  What was really kind of cool I suppose. You draw a picture of something on a circle that is made out of card. e.g. a horse. then on another circle draw another picture that goes with the other picture. e.g. a rider. Get a hole punch and then stick the pictures together and hole punch them, next put the strings through the holes and you're done.  

Chestnut Class with their finished thaumatropes. 

Chestnut Class raise money for Deopham Church roof.

                  Chestnut class cake sale and bring & buy.

This is Brooke with her apron on ready to start cooking. She looks very excited, is she going to cook nice cakes? She thinks that she's making rice crispy cakes. Do you think that she wants to eat the cakes after she has made them?

             

These boys are enjoying mixing their rice crispies into their butter and golden syrup. By the look on his face Louis is finding it hard work. Harry and Sam are too distracted to notice.

  

All of these children are waiting for the next ingredient, it could be the golden syrup. They must be very tempted to eat all of the mixture. There are 5 different groups: Hannah, Bella and Patience, Trinity, Sarah and Tia, Lillie Brooke and Izzy,Mia and Layton and the final group was Louis, Sam and Harry.  

This is the sale just before people came and started to buy things. 

Chestnut Class would like everybody in the school (and their families) that helped to make it such a success, by making cakes, buying cakes, helping on the day, donating books or other things for the bring and buy.  It was just amazing how brilliant everyone was.  Thank you to Rev. Colin who came to support us on the day and sold any leftover cakes to his church youth group.  

It was a very successful afternoon and we raised over £200 for the Deopham Church roof repair fund!! 

Learning about the bones in our skeletons.

Our skeletons

We drew around our bodies, then we drew our skeletons in our drawn bodies.
Some things we learnt are: another word for skull is cranium, a collar bone is a clavicle, the longest bone is in your leg, it's called a femur and it's another word for thigh bone.

We listened to a song about bones and every- one made actions to the song, and some people added in parts to the song like adadadodadada

It was epic.  This is how the song starts off Name those bones name those bones; I've got a cranium for my brainium.

It was lovely weather so we could go out on the playground.

You had to draw carefully and the person laying down had to keep very still!

It was a bit tricky when the wind blew so we had to try hard to stop the paper blowing away!

Mia is carefully drawing round tia

 All the words for the song we sang are:

Name those bones.
Name those bones.

I have a cranium, for my brainium.
And a mandible that's, my jawbone.
And there's my clavicle, that's my collarbone.
And my sternum keeps my ribs at home.

Name those bones.
Name those bones.

All my vertebrae are running down my back
From my head to my pelvic bone.
My femur fits in there, a leg bone I declare
It's the longest bone that I have grown.

Name those bones.
Name those bones.

Patella fits in next, that's my kneecap,
And below it are two more leg bones.
My tibia in front, my fibula in back,
Keep me running at school or home.

Name those bones.
Name those bones.

Now moving down my arm, let's start with humerus
Followed by two more arm bones.
There's an ulna and a radius
My ulna makes up my elbow bone.

Name those bones.
Name those bones.

All my fingers, all my toes,
They're called phalanges, everybody knows.
And on my back you'll find, two shoulder blades in line,
We call them scapula every time.

Name those bones.
Name those bones.

Collective Worship 22nd April 2015

Chestnut Class led the whole school Collective Worship.  They enjoyed presenting a bible based drama and the school enjoyed watching.  The message was it's good to be humble. The king in the story started off as not very nice but learnt his lesson and was humble and a nicer person at the end. 

Mia,Patience& Jay Examining Hannah closely.

Harry peeking into his bible.

Chestnut Class gardening on a sunny Spring day.

We were taking all the weeds out.  If we did not the garden will be messed up. Weeds are plants that are growing in the wrong place or at the wrong time.  We decided we didn't want dandelions in our garden even though Adam thinks they look nice. Later we all planted Patience's things e.g. onions, we also planted some broad beans.

                                            DA DA DA DAAAAAAAAAAAA!King Louis
                                                                    is getting compost!!!

We put some in the greenhouse so they grow quicker.

Having fun in the garden.