On Monday, for Safer Internet Day, we were visited by PC Ainsworth who talked about how we can stay safe online.
PC Ainsworth
Let there be light!
In Victorian times, electric lights started to replace candles, gas lamps and oil lamps. Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison each developed successful electric light bulbs. As a mantle of the expert task we were commissioned to build our own circuits to light a bulb!
Chinese New Year
The children created their own dragon dance to celebrate Chinese New Year.
Bird Feeders
The children have enjoyed following instructions carefully to make their own bird feeders.
Happy St. Dwynwen's Day!
The children had a fabulous day celebrating St. Dwynwen’s Day. They listened carefully to the story and then they used their reading skills to follow instructions to make their own heart shaped biscuits. Miss Love and Mrs Wood were really impressed by how well the groups worked together to share the doing each of the instructions.
Sugar Tax Removed!
In 1874, William Gladstone, the Prime Minister removed tax on sugar. This made sugar more affordable and led to more people having tooth decay. We investigated the effect of sugary liquids and other liquids on our teeth.
We soaked 5 eggs in vinegar, cola, water, coffee and the final egg was half soaked in coffee and toothpaste.
After 2 days, the eggs in coffee and cola stained the egg shell and stuck to the surface. This bacteria then breaks down the sugar to make acid which can damage teeth.
We found our toothpaste covered egg stained less than the non toothpaste covered egg.
The vinegar completely dissolved the eggshell, leaving just the membrane behind.
Victorian School Life in Knighton!
This week the children experienced life in a Victorian classroom when they were greeted for lessons by a very strict Miss Green! They found out about the 3R’s, the drill, the ‘dunce’s cap’ and the cane!
They also looked at old photographs of Knighton School in Victorian times and recorded all of the facts that they could recall on a mind map. They will use their mind map next week to write a report on Victorian schools.
Victorian Shops
We have enjoyed finding out about the shops that were in Knighton in Victorian times. We used some of the pictures from Mary Cadwallader’s book showing what Victorian Knighton was like. We created a graphs on HWB showing our favourite Victorian shops and posters to advertise them. Here are some of our posters.
The Hindu Story of Creation
We have been reading and discussing the Hindu story of Creation. We composed music to depict the story and we created our own dance to represent the key parts of the story.
We also created a collage of Vishnu and Brahma.
Dosbarth Gwennol Home Learning - Friday 7th January 2022
Happy New Year! Welcome back to the start of a new term and new year, as Friday 7th January is a confirmed home schooling day, here are a few activities that I would like your child to complete and email pictures of their work to me.
Activity 1 – Maths – Time – Can you recite all of the months of the year? Check with an adult to see that you have included them all.
Write a list of each of the months of the year and key events that occur in those months to help you to remember them. For example…
January – 10th Jane’s birthday
February – 1st Chinese New Year
14th St Valentines Day
18th Comic Relief
and so on…..
Activity 2 Literacy – Writing – To write a report detailing what you had for Christmas. You can write about your favourite present in detail or a paragraph describing each present. Suggested things to include in your report – a description of your present (s), what does it look, feel, smell, sound or taste like, who gave it to you and why it is so special. You may also wish to draw a picture of your present.
Activity 3 – New Year Resolutions – At the start of the new year people like to make ‘resolutions’ or goals that they would like to set for themselves. Think of five goals that you would like to achieve in 2022. Write them in a list and explain how you are going to try and achieve them. For example…
Goal 1 – Become a better reader – I am going to go on Nessy for 10 minutes each day.
My email address is MorrisJ313@hwbcymru.net
Diolch,
Mrs Fielding