What are we learning about in Willow Class this term?

Victorian Day

As part of their topic on The Victorians, Willow Class held a Victorian School Day.  Miss Grantham and her class dressed in Victorian clothes, the children sat in rows and worked on chalk boards.  And no Victorian school room is complete without a cane and that big cap with a D on it!  Everyone had great fun.

Antarctica Topic - Penguin paintings.

We found out about all the different types of penguin that may be found in Antarctica.  We painted some of them and they look lovely displayed in our classroom.

Cooking with a purpose

As part of their continuing work on our bodies - how they work and how to be healthy - a group of children from Willow Class cooked a meal to keep our bones healthy.  Their authentic cannelloni contained calcium in the form of milk in the béchamel sauce and two kinds of cheese - ricotta and parmesan, with additional vitamins from spinach, and energy from the pasta.  The children worked brilliantly together to cook a complex dish.  The finished product was really delicious and professional enough to serve at a dinner party.  Well done, Willow !

Active Science

In our science lessons this half term, Willow Class are learning about different food types, what food does to our bodies and how to make healthy choices about what we eat.  We had a chance to explore food from the different food groups hands on, and worked with a partner to design our own meals.  We had to think about making sure we had a balance between different food groups and explain why we made the choices we did.  Some of us had an opportunity to share the kind of food we eat at home, and find out about vegetarian diets from our friends.
Busy baking cakes for the Macmillan Coffee morning.  Fundraising can be great fun!

Topic work in Willow Class

Creating our own cave paintings.  What would cave people have used to create images on the walls? 
What is in the images?  What do they tell us? What colours would they be?  How did they last so long?
Weaving in Wiilow - exploring  warp and weft.  Can you work methodically to weave neatly and correctly?

Exploring text types

The children in Willow Class discovered the success criteria for effective instructions in a very practical way.  They were given instructions to make a King Bog Baby and worked with a partner to see if their set of instructions was a WAGOLL (What a good one looks like) or a WABOLL (What a bad one looks like).  They then worked out what they needed to add to make their instructions work.