LIRA
The first book we read was 'The Accidental Prime Minister' by Tom McLaughlin. We have really loved reading this book. So much so that we decided to make it our class read as well!
Our second book was 'Malamander' by Thomas Taylor. We focused on making predictions based on the text and exploring the language that the author has chosen to use.
Topic
This half term, our focus has been on Design Technology. We have been looking at resistant materials in our topic 'The Wand Chooses the Wizard'. We received a letter from Hogwarts asking us to design our own wands.
Firstly, we explored a variety of magical wands from the Harry Potter universe. We took features from each wand that we liked and used them to design our own.
Then, we considered what materials would be the most suitable before creating our wand. We made sure our wand was aesthetically pleasing by deciding how we were going to give our wands a high-quality finish.
Science
In Science this half term, we have been looking at materials (states of matter). We explored:
- The differences between solids, liquids and gases
- The density of liquids
- The effect of melting and cooling
- How liquid evaporates
- The water cycle
It has also been Science Week this half term with the theme of time and we really enjoyed taking part in the experiments.