Killingholme Primary School

In science, we have been investigating materials and learning about seasons. This week we had to work in pairs to design clothes for a particular season. We used our knowledge of materials to help us label our designs with the best material suited to the clothing and season we had been given. As well as our learning, we have been working hard to practice our christmas Production! We can't believe it is next week! 

This week, we have put our brains to the test because it was assessment week! On Thursday, we explored different materials and made feely plates! We worked in groups to find and stick materials that matched the property that we had on our plate! We had to look for materials that were dull, shiny, flexible, transparent, opaque, stiff, rough and smooth! Then, on Friday we had a fantastic opportunity to join a video call with author and illustrators Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodheart! They read through You Choose Christmas where they made up their own christmas story and at the end we did a live draw along of some of the christmas characters and objects - we LOVED it!

What a busy week! This week we had our Christmas Fayre, where we got to look and have a go at lots of christmas games and we even got the opportunity to sit and watch a pantomine in our very own school! We loved watching Snow White and had so much fun - it definitley made us laugh! As well as all these fun activities, in Literacy we have been looking at the book 'How did that get in my lunch box??', which has taught us the many different ways that food grows, is made and processed! We created informative leaflets and instructions on some of the foods in the book, like tomatoes, carrots, clementines and even apple juice!

Wow! What a busy first week we have had! We had our halloween disco on Monday where we all dressed as spooky halloween characters and had a dance and a boogie to some music! This week's learning has consisted of drama and learning about the story of the Princess and the Pea, we investigated properties of materials in science and even started looking at the great fire of London in history. On Friday, we had a go at sketching Claude Monet's Water Lilies painting!

This week we have been investigating materials for our science lesson. We have explored a range of objects to see if we can work out the different materials that are used to make it!

Over the next couple of weeks our focus book in Literacy is Alice in Wonderland. This week we have been getting to know the story and the wonderful characters entailed. We have been role playing and describing how the characters look, act and feel.

This term in DT we are investigating vehicles. This week we have been designing our own vehicles, ready to be constructed later on this term. We had also been set a challenge in provision to see if we could build a vehicle using the materials in the construction area! 

This week we have been learning the story of The Extraordinary Gardener! We have loved digging into the images and words to see what we could find! We have used the images to help us learn about how to make lists.

We have had a great start to the year! We have spent time looking around our new and exciting classroom as well as spending time as a mixed year group. We have been working on our skills as a whole team! We even began to look at our artist of the term and started sketching one of their paintings!