The class teacher is Miss Hutchings and our teaching assistants are Miss Walton and Mrs Joy. This page will be updated regularly to update you on what Ash class having been doing at school.
Homework will be set on a Friday and due in the following Thursday. Paper copies are available in the classroom which children are encouraged to collect themselves if needed.
Project homework (William Shakespeare) is due on Thursday 6th February.
PE days for term 3 will be on Tuesday (gymnastics) and Friday (cricket).
Term 2 - Our Projects for this term are Wallingford Castle and Disgusting Digestion
Creativity at lunch time
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Science
As part of our Electricity unit of work, we have been learning how to successfully make a circuit. The equipment includes; 1 battery (cell), 1 bulb and 2 wires. It is important there are no gaps so there is a constant flow of electricity. You must make sure that the wires connect to both sides of the cell and battery.
Maths
We have been learning how to divide using equal sharing and grouping. To help us, we used magnetic letters to share or group different amounts of numbers.
Sharing 18 letters
Sharing 24 letters
Grouping into piles of 6
Grouping into piles of 7
Year 3/4 Christmas Lunch
Computing
In this lesson, we were learning about what makes up a network. Each table were a different location and had to send messages through the 'switch' to another location. We then introduced routers so each person would send a message to the 'switch' who would then pass it onto a 'router'. We also discused why there are so many physical cables world wide to connect everyone online.
Art
Inspired by Andy Warhol, Ash Class having been designing and drawing their own Pop Art pictures.
Games with Year 6 Active Leaders
As part of the Year 6 active leaders course, they had to explain and demonstrate the games they had created. Everyone had lots of fun trying the games and thought the year 6's were excellent.
Science
In this lesson, we carried out an experiment focusing on the functions in the digestive system. First, we put crackers in a sealable bag, then we added water (this was acting at the mouth). After that, we added orange juice to symbolise the stomach acid. Finally, we pushed the sloppy mixture through a pair of tights to act as the intestines.
PE - Hockey
Below is a picture of George showing how to correctly hold a hockey stick.
Art
In art, we researched different graffiti and street artists. Inspired by their work, we created our own graffiti styles work in our sketch pads.
PE - Hockey
In this lesson, everyone was working on passing the hockey ball and holding the hockey stick correctly. We played a game where we had to hit a cone with the hockey ball, if the cone was hit successfully the person could go and collect it. The group with the most cones at the end were the winners.
School trip to Wallingford Museum and Castle Gardens
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Performance Poetry
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Term 1 - Our projects for this term are Top One Picture and Rivers
Here is the poem which inspired our performance poetry below
The River
The River's a wanderer,
A nomad, a tramp.
He doesn't choose any one place,
To set up his camp.
The river's a winder,
Through valley and hill,
He twists and he turns,
He just cannot be still.
The river's a hoarder,
And he buries down deep,
Those little treasures
That he wants to keep.
The river's a baby,
He gurgles and hums,
And sounds like he's happily
Sucking his thumbs.
The river's a singer,
As he dances along,
The countryside echoes,
The notes of his song.
The river's a monster,
Hungry and vexed,
He's gobbled up trees
And he'll swallow you next.
Performance poetry - stanza six
Performance poetry - stanza five
Performance poetry - stanza four
Performance poetry - stanza three
Performance poetry - stanza two
Performance poetry - stanza one
Creating water cycle songs
The Water Cycle song
Creating Water Cycle songs
The Water Cycle
Non-chronological reports about river animals
Pointillism River Scene
Learning about Pointillism with trees
Science - States of Matter
To help learn about a solid turning into a liquid, we used ice and chocolate milk to try and make "ice cream." First, we warmed our hands by rubbing them together to raise the temperature. Then, we held the ice in our hands to start the melting process. We added ice to help too. After that, we added chocolate milk to try and make an "ice cream" consistency. It was lots of fun and we all tried some chocolate milk at the end of the lesson.
"When the ice melts it turns from a solid to a liquid."
"The salt makes the ice melt fast, like when we put salt on the roads when it's icy."
Art inspired by Claude Monet
Personification Freezeframes - we wrote sentences in our books to describe our freezeframe.
Expanded Noun Phrases to describe our TOP
Take One Picture - Writing
We learnt about personification and wrote paragraphs describing the different objects in the painting.
Take One Picture - Art
As part of our Take One Picture project, we first identified the colours used in the painting, then practised using oil pastels and finally, re-created our TOP in our sketch pads.
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