Monday 30th March Home learning Mulberry Class Morning Mulberry Class, hope you managed to get outside to get some fresh air this weekend. I will be blogging another set of activities to do this week. These activities are guidelines of ideas, so please do any of them that you are able to. I've tried to keep the tasks to the routine of a normal Monday. We are starting some work on poetry this week, so today I have given you some poetry to read and think about. If you are able to get out into a garden, then have a look at what wildlife you can see outside too. Mrs Morris Mental maths Go online to use sumdog: www.sumdog.com (see your log in details on sheet in learning pack) Maths- Multiplication and division Think about what multiplication and division you have learnt, in lessons in school this past term, and how you can use these skills to answer these questions: Literacy/Reading Poetry: 1) ...
Gressenhall Neolithic trip Last Friday , we visited Gressenhall farm and workhouse, to take part in activities all about Neolithic times (also known as the Stone Age). First we went into the forest to find out about how the Stone age people were 'hunter-gatherers'. We learnt that they ate nuts and berries that they found, and hunted for animals and fish. We looked at different weapons that they used such as a long bow, arrow and a long spear. The children then had a chance to hunt a pretend wild boar, by throwing a spear at it. After that, we visited the museum and learnt all about tools, pots and other items that have been found by archaeologists. We had to look around carefully and find some of these items like a arrowhead. We looked at flints and hammer heads and found out how these were created. Then we we thought about later in the Neolithic period, when the Stone Age people began to farm. They re...
We experimented in how the Stone Age people created boundaries in order to keep animals in (and out) which was the beginning of these people farming. They wove with flexible twigs from their environment - willow, hazel and birch. Team work - Making dens from sheets and tarpaulin (rather than animal skins!) Everyone had lots of fun!
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