Is Christmas on the way?

We stated making our decorations today for our class mobile - the hall is going to look amazing!

Fair trade detectives

We have been learning about Fair Trade and why it is so important. Farmers who grow food like bananas, coffee, tea and pineapples need to have a fair deal with the people they sell their crops to so that they, and their children, can have better food and education.  Mrs Peterson did a hunt around her kitchen and didn't find she was buying as much Fair Trade food as she thought she was - not even her bananas.
So  . . . could you be a Fair Trade detective and look around your kitchen and see how many things have the Fair Trade logo on them. If you go to the supermarket you could see how many Fair Trade products you can find too.
Remember  . . . without the Fair Trade logo then it is not Fair Trade.

              

Word Wizards

In Word Wizards we discovered new facts about badgers and used this knowledge in our drama sketches. We also tackled or focus words which were 'simply,' 'smugly' and 'completely.'
Can you make up a sentence using these words correctly? Tell someone at home or school the sentences.


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Shaftesbury C of E Primary School is part of Southern Academy Trust, a
charitable private company, limited by guarantee and registered in England
and Wales, company number: 09040388

Registered office address: Shaftesbury School, Salisbury Road, Shaftesbury,
Dorset, SP7 8ER

Oak class visits Year 5.

We were lucky to be asked to help Year 5 with their explanation texts about night and day. Everyone listened carefully to their Year 5 partner who did a great job using their writing to explain. Great listening Oak class. 

Sweet senses

Sweets provided the inspiration for our poetry writing. Loads of smelling, rustling and colourful wishes as the tempting bowl of sweets appeared!  We tried to remember everything Ash Dickinson told us when he visited . . . 

Ash Dickinson Poet Visit....

Ash Dickinson poet visit

We all enjoyed the visit by Ash Dickinson to Year 4. His poetry performances were amazing and everyone listened so well. We were inspired to write haikus, sense poems and triolet poems. We are looking forward to improving our poetry writing over the rest of the week. 

Word Wizards enjoying library time!

Today in Word Wizards we enjoyed reading the new books and magazines in the library.

It was lovely to be so comfortable in our new seating on such a rainy day!


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Shaftesbury C of E Primary School is part of Southern Academy Trust, a
charitable private company, limited by guarantee and registered in England
and Wales, company number: 09040388

Registered office address: Shaftesbury School, Salisbury Road, Shaftesbury,
Dorset, SP7 8ER

How is chocolate made?

We were looking at how the cocoa bean is turned into a chocolate bar today. We were lucky enough to  have examples of everything from cocoa beans to the nib of the bean, the pod and  white cocoa butter. Have a think about the 300 or so beans that go into making your chocolate bar next time you have a chocolate treat. 

Y4 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Homework Project

We have finally arrived at the point in the story where Charlie and the other children have discovered ‘The Inventing Room’…

INVENT YOUR OWN SWEET

So, what we would like the children to do is get inventing and come up with a brand new item of confectionary ready for Christmas ….sweet, chocolate, lolly... absolutely anything… any flavour, any colour, any size!

Like our Egypt homework project, there are no rules- the children can draw, make, model, colour, paint, design, stitch, use IT or even cook their new addition to the Wonka Range! The sweet must have a name, a description of ingredients and who it is for… and it must be linked to the Festive Season!

The date for their projects to be brought to school is Tuesday 13^th December which gives the children 3 weeks to come up with something amazing so we can show them off in the run up to Christmas.

More great gymnastics...

Our focus was improving our jumps, rolls, travelling and symmetrical and asymmetrical balances.

Describing the chocolate room!

Today we planned what it would be like inside The Chocolate Room in Willy Wonka's Factory. We did some freeze frames on how the children may be feeling as they entered the room and then started to think about our senses - what we could see, taste, touch, hear and smell. Tomorrow we will turn our notes into amazing writing....

Grid method multiplication

We used lots of different ways to help us with every step of our maths work this morning.

What does Willy Wonka look like?

We decided to use our reading for information to good use by making up questions about Willy Wonka for the rest of the class to answer. 

Magical Melting

We started looking at melting temperatures of different solids today.... Starting off with seeing what happens to chocolate when it is in our mouth - expertly modelled by Lola! We then carried out an experiment to see what effects the melting rates of butter and chocolate.

Latitude and longitude song

Everyone enjoyed this song which helped us review how to use latitude and longitude today.

Word Wizards

Today in Word Wizards we found out about facts about foxes. We pretended to be foxes in our drama sketches so we could show the meanings of the words: 'nicely,' 'horribly,' and 'suddenly'.
Think of a fact about foxes and surprise someone at home or school with your new learning.


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Shaftesbury C of E Primary School is part of Southern Academy Trust, a
charitable private company, limited by guarantee and registered in England
and Wales, company number: 09040388

Registered office address: Shaftesbury School, Salisbury Road, Shaftesbury,
Dorset, SP7 8ER