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The Tiger Who Came to Tea in Skylarks (Part 2) | 12 Sep 2024

Today Skylarks worked individually or in small groups to act out a scene from the story of The Tiger Who Came to Tea. They used words and phrases that they could remember from the book and improvised some of their own. They practiced and then performed for the rest of the class. Super work Skylarks!

The Tiger Who Came to Tea in Skylarks (Part 1) | 12 Sep 2024

The children in Skylarks have had fun with The Tiger Who Came to Tea this week. They started by looking carefully at the cover of the book for clues as to what might happen in the story. Next, they listened to the story, discussing what was happening on each page and answering a variety of …

Skylarks learnt that a landmark is something that stands out in an area e.g. a building, bridge, lake, river, sculpture – or something else. They might be special because they are big, nice to look at or really old. We listened to the story of ‘Katie in London’ which featured lots of landmarks and had …

Skylarks predicted how many drops of water they thought would fit on a penny. Their guesses were between 7 and 9 drops. They then carried out an experiment using a pipette to put drops of water onto a penny. They were quite surprised by their results! would fit on a penny and

Skylarks looked at non – fiction books today and tried to find the features of non-chronological reports. They discovered, titles, sub-titles, contents pages, glossaries, diagrams, photographs and more. They listened to a song to help them remember the features. A song always helps!

Cool Clay in Skylarks – Part 2 | 02 May 2024

After leaving our clay pots to dry, it was time to paint them. We decided which secondary colour we would like them to be (green, orange or purple) and mixed primary colours to created these colours. We painted our dipping pots and can’t wait to use them! They look great!

Cool Clay in Skylarks | 30 Apr 2024

Skylarks used clay to create their own dipping bowls. They rolled and coiled the clay and used slip and smoothing tools to attach the coils together. When they are dry they will mix primary colours to create secondary colours to paint them. The pots have already received lots of admiring glances from members of staff. …

Red Kites Science – Heating and Cooling | 01 Mar 2024

Red Kites carried out an experiment to find out what temperature chocolate melts at. They worked in small groups, allocating roles to each other, measuring temperatures and the times it took for chocolate to melt in water of different temperatures. They eventually discovered that chocolate melts at 25 degrees Celsius, which is how it feels …

Falcons carried out an experiment to try to find out what temperature chocolate melts at. They worked in small groups, allocating roles to each other and measuring temperatures and times it took for chocolate to melt in water of different temperatures. They eventually discovered that chocolate melts at 25 degrees Celsius, which is how it …

Red Kites explored cornflour goop which is a Non-Newtonian Fluid. In other words, it has different properties and behaves differently to other fluids (Newtonian fluids). When you mix cornflour and water together it creates a suspension, sometimes behaving like a solid and sometimes behaving like a liquid and it’s fun to explore, if a little …
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