Showing posts with label visitor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label visitor. Show all posts

Friday, 4 July 2014

We love Samba!

Connor came to our school today to teach us all how to drum like they do in Brazil. This is called Samba drumming.



The Wrens couldn't wait to get started!





We each got a turn on all of the different instruments.






Connor taught us lots of different 'Call and Responses'; he played one rhythm first and we played a different one back to him (we learnt lots of silly phrases to help us remember which rhythm to play).




It was great fun and we were all incredibly good at drumming in time with everyone else!


Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Friday, 21 March 2014

Dr Ken's Science Circus

The Wrens had a session in the hall today with our visitor for Science Week, Dr Ken!




Here are some action shots of us learning how make our balloons travel up in the air:










We all lined up ready for take off. Dr Ken asked us to get in a straight line so that our test was fair.



5, 4, 3, 2, 1...LAUNCH!!!



We noticed that some of the balloons nearly always travelled the furthest.

We talked about our ideas with Dr Ken.


Can you remember which of these balloons travelled further than any of the others? Why is that?


We explored ideas about pushes, pulls and how energy is stored when the end of a balloon is pulled tight.


It was great to learn so much whilst having lots of fun!

Friday, 27 April 2012

Unusual plants


Yesterday, the Wrens were visited by Mr Squirrell
who works at a plant nursery in Suffolk.


He brought in lots of different and unusual plants to show us.


We asked him lots of different questions and he asked us some too!


We got to smell some different herbs. 


These are carniverous plants which eat small insects!
 

   We liked the Venus fly traps!  Annalise asked,
      "How does the plant know when there is a fly because it doesn't have eyes?"


           So Mr Squirrell explained how it uses tiny hairs to sense when a fly lands on it.  It takes it about a week to 'eat' a fly!



We had fun pretending to be fly catchers!


Amber and Ria are looking at the fly that this plant has already caught.


This plant could grow to be as tall as our classroom!

           We got to have a close up look at the plants at our tables
            and drew them carefully.  We added labels to our
             pictures and thought about which plant we liked the best.

I had lots of fun smelling the plants.

I  liked the venus fly  trap because they catch flys.


Sage   smells  luvle    because   you can cooking  with it.


I liked  the  venus  fly trap because it cachs flys.

the    ros  is      pitew   iin  the sumre








  Mr Squirrell has let us keep some different carniverous plants
and he told us how to take good care of them.

FLIES BEWARE!!!
 
If you would like to come and see them, please drop in one day after school.