Music and drama - rhythm stories

Music and drama in Chestnut Class

We have done loads of drama and lots of music and acting we had loads of fun. 

1st group: Our group did something about animals I was a cheetah, Sam was a lizard, Lille was a Dalmatian puppy, Trinity was a wolf.

2nd group.  Isabella was a gorilla,  Brooke a kangaroo and Layton a monkey. It was awesome and exciting.

 This group was exciting to watch, their drama was good.

  

Steve Parker, author, visits Chestnut Class

Steve Parker visits Chestnut Class at Morley V.A.Primary School

Steve Parker is an author of non-fiction books.  He told us about how long it takes him to get to work.  It just takes him a few seconds because his office is in his house where he lives. 

He showed us the different books that he's written.  There was quite a lot of books, one really good one was about robots where you can build your own robot. 

Steve got us to work in groups to invent something that would help people.  One group invented a V-transformation, this is a 4 x 4 vehicle which can change into any vehicle you like e.g. a motorbike, a boat or a Sports Utility Vehicle (S.U.V.).   At night if you're parking the car in your garage and you leave your garage door open you can just put the control in your garage and it puts a laser beam trap to stop people getting to your vehicle.

We enjoyed Steve Parker's visit and we hope he will visit our school again. 

Gymnastics lessons

Each Wednesday this half-term we  have gymnastics for our P.E. lessons, our coach is called Kerry.  It's extremely enjoyable and exhausting!

This week we were learning about different sorts of jumps, the jumps are:
tuck jump, straight jump, star jump, 360 degrees (full turn) jump and a half-turn jump.  

Some children found the tuck jump the hardest and others thought the full-turn jump was hardest.

We had to do a routine with people jumping at the same time and include all of the jumps.  It was great fun.

Children practicing their jump routine.

We are looking forward to seeing what we will learn 

in our next gymnastics lesson.

Measuring in maths lessons

Maths measuring !!!

This is Harry and Bella measuring and writing about sizes of feet and hands. 

  

We cut out our hands and feet in paper but they were still crazy sizes.

No one got their real size for their hands but everyone still found it extremely funny and a very nice activity.

This is Tabby drawing round her hand with Mrs Harrold.

It actually seemed quite hard to get the measurement right .It was actually quite easy to get it wrong then.

After some practice there were a lot of a lot of the people who could measure correctly but in centimetres (cm). Nearly everyone got it right (Well sort of anyway.). There were a lot of the same measurements for everyone .There should be an easier way to measure!

This is Louis and Hannah measuring, we had to use rulers and a tape measure. To be measured they have to take their shoes off and keep their arms by their sides .  We had to measure in millimetres (mm) . You could tell if it was mm or cm by looking at the ruler carefully. 

We learned a lot about measuring and that you need to do it very carefully to get it right. 

Ancient House Museum trip

 Our Roman day  at  the Ancient House

Museum, Thetford

On Wednesday 28th January 2015 years 3,4,5 and 6 from Morley school went on a trip to the Ancient House to learn about the Romans and the Iceni. It was amazing! 

This is Roman soldier Lucius
Can you see the knobbly thing on the shield? Its a boss.


                                    

This is an Iceni warrior, Karaticus.  He taught us that the blue paint on his face was drawn with wode.  The Iceni warriors did this so that the Gods knew that they were Iceni so if they died they were taken to heaven. 

      

This is Julia. She showed us how to make Roman sweets. The Romans used honey instead of sugar to make things taste sweet. 

Julia's Mum, a Roman lady, showed us some real as well as some replica Roman artefacts. 

 

This is Boudica. She told us which food was brought to Britain by the Romans, one thing they brought was rabbits. 

P.E. with Coach Ian

                         P.E with coach Ian                         

We like P.E. lessons with Coach Ian because he always thinks of enjoyable games and we learn lots of different skills like how to throw balls accurately and working in teams.

One of the games we play is Chinese football. We enjoy Chinese football although its tiring.   

These pictures show some of the children in Chestnut Class playing Chinese football.

Science - learning about forces

Science-magnets and forces

We are learning about non-contact and contact forces.  

If a south pole and a south pole on a magnet are put together they will repel each other,however if a north pole and a south pole are put together they will attract each other.                                                                                                                                                                                                             Thomas, Harry and Sam making their fishing
                                                                                   game. 

We were trying to make a fishing game with magnets. We experimented in groups to see how we can create a game where we have to catch fish but without touching the fish ourselves.  We found that magnets were the best way to catch the fish as magnets attracted the metal which was on the fish (a paperclip).  This force is called a non-contact force as we didn't have to push or pull the fish ourselves. 

We all showed everybody our games and here is a picture of a group showing theirs.