Our first week back this half term was all about Diwali. We learnt about why the Hindus and Sikhs celebrate it. We made our own diva lamps from clay and decorated them. We designed mendi rangoli patterns. We investigated lines of symmetry in rangoli patterns and drew our own outside on the ground as well as designing them on paper. We made sweets and wrote poems. All in all an action packed week!
Last half-term, we weren't very good at keeping you updated but here are a few of our highlights..... As part of our electricity topic, we made lots of circuits, making bulbs light and buzzers buzz. We constructed our own switches. We painted pictures and then added an electrical component with a switch - lighthouses that light up, houses with lights that turn on when you open the door, clowns with noses that light up etc. Our switches were made from paper clips and pins or foil and wire.
We followed instructions to bake muffins and we made pizzas as part of a maths lesson. We drew charts showing the class's favourite pizza toppings and then made the pizzas.
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Have a look at the amazing scarecrows we made for the harvest assembly.
