English
This week in English we have been continuing the theme of recounts by writing our own newspaper articles. We started by learning about the features of a newspaper article, one of these being a catchy headline. We then planned our own article retelling the story of Jack and Jill. Take a look at some of our work.
Science
In science this week we had a lot of fun continuing with our rocket investigations. After making and flying our rockets last week we began designing investigation questions we could test. We decided that in order to make it fair we could only test one variable such as the material used to build he rocket or number of fins our rocket had. We then took our new rockets out to test, measuring the distance each rocket could fly.
Topic
In topic this week we have been creating a time line of inventions. We started by classifying inventions into different groups and trying to decide which inventions we think are most important or have had the most impact on our lives.
We then split into triads to do some research about different inventions around the home and workplace and see how these things have changed over time. We have learnt about lots of inventions that are no longer in use such as the grammar phone, type writer and rolodex.