Merry Christmas!

What a busy week!

Well done to everyone for their fantastic Christmas play performances, they all did fantastically! 

This week we have not only performed our Christmas play 3 times, we have had our Christmas parties,  a visit from Santa AND a Christingle service!

Here we all are playing 'Sleeping Santa' during our Christmas party!  

 Santa arrived at Caythorpe School! 

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

From Lincoln Class

This week in Lincoln Class...

This week we have used our explanation skills in science to explain why the oil and food colouring separated when poured into warm water!

We have also been extremely busy with Christmas crafts and Christmas play rehearsals! We are very much looking forward to performing on Monday and Tuesday! 

Our trip to Weston Park Museum, Sheffield

It was an early start but we all had an amazing time at the museum!

We began with an Egyptian workshop where we were able to embalm a life size doll and learn how and why Pharaoh's were mummified. We also had the chance to become History Detectives and look at some Ancient Egyptian artefacts as well as making our own Shabti - a pocket size slave that the Egyptians would take with them to the afterlife!

In the afternoon we were able to explore the museum. Our favourite part was 'pushing the poo' to see if we were stronger than a scarab beetle! 

Thank you to Mrs Norton, Mrs Watson and Mrs Richardson who came and helped us out on the day! 

We all had a fantastic day! 

It's Christmas!

This week we have been thinking about what we would like Santa to bring us this year, and if we've been good enough for him to pay is a visit on Christmas Eve!

We wrote Santa a letter telling him what we would like and what we had done this year to deserve some presents!

Once we had written the letter we put it in an envelope, addressed it to Santa, put on a stamp and walked to the postbox to post it.

Mummification Instructions and Egyptian Riddles

For the last couple of weeks in English we have been carrying on with our Ancient Egyptian theme.

We looked at how to write instructions, finishing off with writing instructions for mummification! I wonder if you can work out the steps using the children's freeze frames?

Last week we moved on to writing our own Egytian riddles! I wonder if you can guess the object!?

I have eyes but cannot see.

I have a heart but it does not beat.

You can see me but I cannot see you.

You can see me but you cannot touch me.

What am I?

From Theo

In maths we have been looking at division. 

We started off by using arrays and then moved on to repeated subtraction on a number line! 

We have discovered that this takes up a lot of room when the numbers keep getting bigger though so we are beginning to look at using short division methods to help us! 

Lincoln Class

Ancient Egyptian Day

What a successful day!

Today was the first day we got to see our finished book with all of our Egyotian adventure stories in!

Look at all of our amazing Egyptian costumes! 

We started the day by looking at different Egyotian cuffs before having a go at making our own...

Take a look at the finished products!

We then made our own Falcon necklaces that the pharaoh's used to wear in Ancient Egypt.

Just before lunch we were thinking about grave robbers. We listened to a piece of music and decided what the grave robbers were doing at different points. We then created different freeze frames to show what was happening throughout the piece of music:

The grave robbers are approaching the tomb...

The grave robbers are breaking in to the tomb...

One of the robbers is trying to search for gold whilst the other is making sure no one catches them!

They continue to search for gold and jewels surrounding the mummy...

They eventually find some and tie it up in bags...

Finally the grave robbers leave the tomb with plenty of gold and riches!!

Thank you to everyone that came to watch our fashion show and Ancient Egyptian dance, we have all had a fantastic day! Now we can't wait for our trip to the museum to find out even more!

It's almost half term!

This week has been very busy!

We have been learning how to tell the time! We began by making our own clocks. We coloured in one half pink for past and the other blue for to.

We moved on to converting analogue clocks to digital clocks and some of us have even started using the 24 hour clock! 

Please carry on this hard work and keep practising at home! 

Now we have made our mummies we have began to make the sarcophagus for it to fit in to. It was fiddly work but we are getting there! 

Check out our spooky Halloween science experiment! Why don't the substances mix together? ... It's all about how dense they are! 

On the final day of term we have all been working together to create some banners for the hall that display our golden values! 

We would like to wish Amber, Finn and Mrs Rickard a very happy Birthday!!

From Lincoln Class

Harvest Festival

Last week in Maths we were looking at the properties of different shapes. We started off with an investigation where we had to make our own shapes to fit the descriptions.

Following on from this we looked at the different angles we found in shapes, looking firstly at right angles and then moving on to acute and obtuse angles. We even went out on the playground to look these different types of angles although it was a bit windy! 

In English last week we planned and drafted the next part of our Egyptian adventure story focusing on using different connectives to make our writing more exciting. We can almost write up our Egyptian adventure stories, I hope you're looking forward to reading them!

In our topic work last week we painted our mummies and looked at the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. If you get a chance, ask the children where it was discovered and who discovered it!

Our big achievement last week was our harvest festival performance. We worked hard at keeping our poem to the rhythm and saying our lines loudly and clearly. Thank you to everyone who came and watched, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! 

Lincoln Class