No-blow Balloons
Tapping into the children’s prior knowledge of mixing baking soda with vinegar prior to starting, connected the children to the lesson
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Round Rainbows
Learning in science is important to understanding the world in which we live in.
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Bingo
I sang ‘Like a letter box’ with a tight, barely open mouth. I then sang with an open, round mouth-‘Like a trout.’
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Nature at our door step, Resourse that inspires
Chris, the artist, talked about being a woodturner like being a surgeon.
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Fun Facts for Basic Facts
We have tried a variety of methods to help us remember. Flashcards, Basic fact booklet, Mathletics live, Basic fact grids, Time Table families.
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Delectable Dazzling Dinosaurs
We also learnt that dinosaurs became extinct about 65 million years ago, before humans even existed! Our minds found it hard to comprehend exactly how long ago this really was.
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Resilience
Although we celebrated their excellence in running, they were not necessarily our most resilient.
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Science with parachutes
The larger the surface area the more air resistance and the slower the parachute will drop.
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Fingerprints and the Police
Before reading they talked about what they might already know about fingerprints (activating prior knowledge).
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Awesome Real life learning
To further their exploration of this idea we arranged for them to construct and build a kitset desk by themselves without any adult intervention, using the instructions and their own amazing skills.
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