Friday 14th July

Home Learning

Seeing as next week is a very busy last week of term, and I am not giving you any home learning to do over the summer holidays, there will not be any home learning given out today. 

What we have done this week

On Thursday of this week we had a go at making peppermint creams. We followed Jamie Oliver's recipe (http://www.jamieoliver.com/news-and-features/features/how-to-make-peppermint-creams/) adding one special ingredient of our own which was the green food colouring. We did this so that we could pretend we were making a revolting treat from Mrs Trafe's (Billionaire Boy) cook book.

This week in maths we have all been creating our own maths board games. Our first job was to design and explain our game in our maths book. In order for our design in our book to be complete it had to be easy for Mr Balls to be able to tell what our board game was going to look like and we had to explain what things we were going to need in order to be able to play it, how many people are needed to play it and what the rules of our board game are. Everybody was working by themselves this week and coming up with their own board games. Once we had explained our designs and ideas we were then given a blank board and allowed to use the resources at the front to create our game. As well as paints and colours there was also some spare cardboard in case we needed to create anything extra for our game. 

In our last lesson of this week we finished off our science topic this term (sound) by making ear defenders to muffle the sound when it reaches our ears. We based our designs on all that we have learnt about sound this term as we tried to use materials that would be best at protecting our hearing. We shaped them to cover as much of our ears as possible.