Skiddaw

This afternoon, Mrs Wadey only got to eat half of her dinner so she was very hungry. She only had a can of dog food to eat. We really thought it was dog food because it looked just like dog food and she ate it! She told us to never judge a book by its cover. When she was eating we said that we felt worried, sick and scared. We thought it was gross and we were confused. Then we thought and talked about what this saying meant. FB

“If you look at a book and see a bad cover it may be a really good story inside.” CH

“If you don’t like something from the cover, it might be really good.” PH

“If you see someone, don’t judge people by what they look like on the outside. Get to know them and it might change your opinion about them.” IW

We think we know something from looking at first but, in life, it is often more interesting and complicated when you look more closely and learn more about it. It can also mean that something that looks great to start with, can turn out to be strange when you look in more detail

Was it really dog food in the can??

Skiddaw class have been music mad this week. We have learnt the difference between rhythms and beats playing drums and other percussion instruments. We know the names of many obscure instruments in our collection as well as how to play them properly.

We have played as a whole class band and then worked in smaller groups choosing to perform our piece in binary (AB) form or ternary (ABA) form. After reviewing videos of our first performances we discussed how we could improve, such as positioning ourselves in a group so we can all see each other and tips and techniques about how to keep us all in time.

Here are our final performances – can you spot if they are binary or ternary form?

To finish our history work on Developments in the Railways we explored where in time this all happened. Firstly, we had cards with other areas of history we study in school, and other important events, and we decided what order they came in. We worked in teams to do this, discussing and justifying our choices. We learnt about BC and AD and how we start counting our year numbers from the year of Jesus’ birth. We then made a display in the classroom with all the cards in the right order. The time the dinosaurs became extinct wouldn’t fit on our time line and it was amazing to think that this would actually be out in the Irish Sea if it was possible to continue our time line in the scale that we have used. This blew our minds!!

Here we doing our research into different steam locomotives which we presented to everyone in Celebration Assembly recently. We are also busy sorting times in history and then displaying our work in the classroom.

Which do you think is the best of these four steam locomotives, all designed and built here in Britain? Skiddaw class have been researching each locomotive ready to present in our Celebration Assembly and try to persuade pupils to vote for them as the Best of Britain!

For Skiddaw’s latest maths investigation, Mr Ward-Banks introduced us to pentominoes. A pentomino was defined a shape made from 5 multilink cubes, fitted together where all 5 cubes touched the table when we placed it down.

We worked in teams to find as many different combinations. We found that some were reflections of others and some were the same when twisted them round. We recorded our findings and made a display of the different combinations. The next challenge was fitting pieces into a cross shaped jigsaw! Great persevering skills and team work was shown.