19 - 25 September 2022 (week 38)

 This week we started Vin's castles theme as well as a variety of other activities. Here are the things we did this week:

Vin helped with measuring, cutting, sanding, and drilling holes in batons of wood to make shelves for the airing cupboard.

Vin made a true or false quiz about super mario characters.

We looked at a guidebook about Leeds castle to find out how long it has been there and read about some of its previous owners. We read about the maze there and answered a quiz about it.

We did some draw along videos of a piranha plant and a raccoon in a pumpkin!

We did some experiments using special beads that changed colour in UV light. We used the UV torch and compared it to the sunlight . We checked to see if my sunglasses stopped the UV (they did) and the windows (they didn’t). Then vin tied the beads into a bracelet so he’s always ready for some UV experiments!

Vinnie helped to prepare dinner, he calculated the amount of pasta for us all, weighed it out and put it on to boil. Then chopped some broccoli and put that in a pan too.

At Communigrow the children learned about hedgerows. They learned about purposes of hedges, the types of plants that make them, and what kinds of life thrives in hedgerows. Then they all helped trim the hedge area at the field.

We visited Leeds castle. We walked through the gardens and looked at the sculpture trail, we played some mini golf, solved the maze and looked out for the things in the grotto that we’d done the quiz about, then admired the birds of prey display. We looked round the castle, watched a display about the queens that had lived in the castle over the centuries then walked round looking at it all decorated in 1930s style of one of the last owners, Lady Bailie. We looked at the outside of the castle and thought about why its current form wouldn’t have been suitable as a military fortification and how it’s more suitable as a palace or fancy house.

In the birds of prey display we saw:
African pale chanting goshawk
Red legged or crested seriema
Aplomado falcon
To be defined as a bird of prey, the bird has to kill with its feet, eat meat and have a hooked beak. The seriema did not have these features other than eating meat so was not technically a bird of prey.

We read about castles on a website and looked up what feudalism and vassals are. We also looked upsome other words we'd seen while at Leeds castle e.g we looked up what a "barbican" was. We answered a quiz about the article we had read.

We made a piece of “non-objective” artwork cutting out shapes and outlining them in different colours. As we outlined the shapes, it was fun to notice what new shapes appeared in the white space. While cutting out our shapes we wondered why hexagon and octagon aren’t hexalateral and octalateral like quadrilateral.

We practiced saying the Spanish words for colours and pointing at the right colour, then solved some anagrams and coloured in the paint splats the right colour.

Vin played some Kahoot times table games.

We drew comics based on levels in super mario sunshine .

We read Vinnie’s magazine about ancient China and did the quiz.

We played around with scratch on the computer, followed some instructions in a book as well as experimented with the sound recording and editing and then Vinnie made a dancing disco donut!

Vin played a Spanish colours game on a website matching either the English word to the correct Spanish word or the Spanish to the correct English word. The puzzle we solved the day before was very useful to refer to but by the end we were remembering some of the words without checking.

We drew a Mario Party style board game and Vinnie came up with mini games and challlenges as well as "unlucky space" consequences with Bowser!

We picked up some books from the library too. Current books:

		Jingle Bells! Corderoy, Tracey2017 Books	27 Sep 2022	Due soonRenewed 1 time
Select record 2		Spanish words Haig, Rudi2019 Books	27 Sep 2022	Due soonRenewed 1 time
Select record 3		Coding games from Scratch Ziter, Rachel2018 Books	27 Sep 2022	Due soonRenewed 1 time
Select record 4		Coding in Scratch for beginners Ziter, Rachel2018 Books	01 Oct 2022	Renewed 2 times
Select record 5		Animation and presentation from Scratch Ziter, Rachel2018 Books	01 Oct 2022	Renewed 2 times
Select record 6		Spanish Medina, Sarah, 1960-2012 Books	01 Oct 2022	Renewed 2 times
Select record 7		When we walked on the moon Long, David, 1961-2019 Books	01 Oct 2022	Renewed 2 times
Select record 8		The Usborne first thousand words in Spanish : with easy pronunciation guide Amery, Heather1995 Books	01 Oct 2022	Renewed 2 times
Select record 9		Last kids on Earth and the midnight blade Brallier, Max2020 Books	01 Oct 2022
Select record 10		The cloud searchers Kibuishi, Kazu, 1978-2017 Books	01 Oct 2022
Select record 11		Loki. A bad God's guide to taking the blame Stowell, Louie2022 Books	01 Oct 2022	2 reserves
Select record 12		The crystal caves Smart, Jamie2020 Books	01 Oct 2022	1 reserve
Select record 13		The reptile room Snicket, Lemony2012 Books	01 Oct 2022	1 reserve
Select record 14		The last council Kibuishi, Kazu, 1978-2011 Books	01 Oct 2022
Select record 15		Spangles McNasty and the fish of gold Webb, Steve, 1967-2016 Books	01 Oct 2022
Select record 16		The last kids on Earth and the cosmic beyond Brallier, Max2019 Books	01 Oct 2022
Select record 17		Sherlock Bones and the case of the crown jewels Collins, Tim, 1975-2022 Books	01 Oct 2022
Select record 18		Freddy the superstar Cameron, Neill, 1977-2022 Books	01 Oct 2022	1 reserve
Select record 19		The wide window Snicket, Lemony2012 Books	07 Oct 2022	Renewed 1 time
Select record 20	Thumbnail for Castles : 10 pop-ups	Castles : 10 pop-ups Hawcock, David2019 Books	11 Oct 2022
Select record 21		The castle the King built : National Trust Colby, Rebecca, 1968-2021 Books	11 Oct 2022
Select record 22		Baby aliens got my teacher! Butchart, Pamela2014 Books	11 Oct 2022	1 reserve
Select record 23		The secret school invasion Butchart, Pamela2022 Books	11 Oct 2022
Select record 24	Thumbnail for Sail down the Nile storysack [kit]	Sail down the Nile storysack [kit] Kits	11 Oct 2022