Traction man - amazing adjectives and expanded noun phrases. - English/Literacy

We received an email from Mini Grey (the author of Traction Manis here) she asked us for our help to think of new adjectives for her new book! 

We have been learning all about adjectives, synonyms and expanded noun phrases to describe Traction Man. 

Materials - sorting! - Science

Today we used picture cards of different materials and we were asked to sort them into their own categories. Then using post it notes we were able to label the categories.

Using the same material picture cards – We were then asked to sort the materials into those which are found naturally and those which are not.

Cup and Ball - DT/History

We have been learning how to make a very popular Victorian toy.Cup and Ball.The original ones were made from wood and string.Can you tell what we used to make ours? 

Remembrance - Why do we wear poppies? - History/RE

Today we learnt all about why we wear poppies.

We changed our classroom into a church. We wrote prayers all about remembrance and read each of our prayers to the class. 

Toys! Toys! Toys! - DT/History

We bought our favourite toys to school with us this week. 

We thought about what these toys were made of, how they are used, if they needed batteries and how old they were.

We were able to discuss our toys with the rest of the class. 

We could then describe our toys using descriptive language. 

Hard and soft toys 

Toys needing batteries and toys without batteries