21 Feb - 6 Mar (weeks 8 and 9)

 The past fortnight we have:

Been to a new playground with our friends, tried out the outdoor gym equipment, and seen some donkies.

Got lots of lovely new books at the library and spent lots of time reading them. We've been reading quite a few of the Murderous Maths series of books recently and having fun doing the tricks and maths tips in them.

Built a model Saturn V and launchpad, and a model curiosity rover.

 

We learned some card games and played them together.

We went out and visited friends and family.

We baked jellybean cookies and brought some to the park to share with friends at the playground.

We read a choose your own adventure book set in Ancient Rome learning about various aspects of Roman life.

 We did some static electricity experiments using our magic wand, balloon, and polystyrene balls. We also saw how when we charged up the wand, a stream of water bent slightly towards it. We talked about the electrons and protons in atoms and how negatives repel each other and the positive and negative attract other and worked out why the water moved.

We looked at and listened to instruments from around the world that are played with a bow. It was interesting to see the different shaped instruments and hear how the tuning was different from different areas of the world. We listened to Vivaldi's four seasons Spring, Tchaikovsky serenade of strings and  the theme to psycho and we talked about the different feelings created by the music and what the ways they were similar.

We played a board game that involved some adding and comparing numbers to battle monsters!

We did the first area in Vinnie's Escape Room book Escape the Museum. We had to solve some puzzles and make some shapes from 2D nets.

 Vinnie got his magic tricks box out and practiced some magic on us! He read the instructions and put on a show.

Current library books:

		The invisible Percival, Tom, 1977-2021 Books	10 Mar 2022	Renewed 4 times
2		Wild child : a journey through nature McAnulty, Dara2021 Books	10 Mar 2022	Renewed 1 time
3		Amazing ancient art : a seek-and-find activity book Artymowska, Aleksandra, 1981-2021 Books	12 Mar 2022	Renewed 3 times
4		The magic of maths Poskitt, Kjartan2014 Books	15 Mar 2022	Renewed 4 times
5		There's a yeti in the playground! Butchart, Pamela2018 Books	18 Mar 2022
6		Kai and the Monkey King Todd-Stanton, Joe2019 Books	18 Mar 2022
7		Escape room Edge, Christopher2022 Books	18 Mar 2022
8		Sophie hits six King-Smith, Dick2005 Books	18 Mar 2022
9		Sophie's further adventures King-Smith, Dick2019 Books	18 Mar 2022	1 reserve
10		Escape from Hotel Infinity Poskitt, Kjartan2017 Books	18 Mar 2022
11		Swing into action! Last, Shari2021 Books	18 Mar 2022	1 reserve
12		Traction Man meets Turbodog Grey, Mini2008 Books	18 Mar 2022
13		Shuri defender of Wakanda Afram, Pamela2022 Books	18 Mar 2022	1 reserve
14		The Brain-bending Basics Poskitt, Kjartan2014 Books	18 Mar 2022
15		There's a werewolf in my tent! Butchart, Pamela2017 Books	18 Mar 2022
16		All shapes and sizes Poskitt, Kjartan2014 Books	18 Mar 2022
17		Let's make comics! Etherington, Robin2014 Books	25 Mar 2022	Renewed 1 time
18		That's a wrap! Jones, Gareth P.2021 Books	25 Mar 2022	Renewed 1 time
19		Machine learning Newland, Sonya2021 Books	25 Mar 2022	Renewed 1 time