11 - 20 December 2023 (weeks 50 - half of 51)

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 We spotted 2D shapes and Vin drew a pattern for a bee hotel with a specific number of triangles, rectangles and pentagons. Then we spotted right angles and parallel lines.

We put on some Christmas songs and made some festive perler beads crafts. Vinnie also made a lot of cute mario kart bead art!




We watched more of the physics in advent experiments and made predictions of what we thought may happen.

Vin played some kahoot to practice his times tables.

We did the penultimate lesson in the mystery science theme. It was about the causes of - and how we could protect a town from - landslides.

We went to the museum and looked at some of the toys exhibits they have. Then Vinnie made some of his own old fashioned toys.



Vin solved a maths mystery to figure out which cheeky elf ate mrs Claus’ Christmas cake. He had to answer a lot of different puzzles to rule out all the suspects.

Vin made a board game.

We went for a Christmassy walk around knole park and spotted the ‘12 days of Christmas’ themed snowmen.



We looked at some Christmassy exhibits from different national trust properties from their website’s advent calendar.

We completed the anchor activity from our mystery in science theme, consolidating all the things we had learned from the previous lessons to conclude what had happened at the ash fall fossil beds and also to identify the likely origin of different rocks.




We read about different Christmas traditions from around the world.

Vinnie baked sausage rolls with his grandma.

We signed up to a maths website so we have a new way to practice some of the maths skills. Vin had a go at some of the quizzes and activities.

Vinnie answered a quiz to recap and summarise the topic on mystery science about rocks, volcanoes, and our investigation.

We are off until New Year now, Merry Christmas!

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