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Miss Cragg (Y2): Blog items

Astro-Charlie, by Miss Ollier

Date: 21st Mar 2016 @ 4:28pm

This term Junior 1 have been completing the Mission X Challenge. The mascot for the challenge is called Astro-Charli. Some of the children took pictures of Astro-Charlie when they were out and about at the weekend.

 

Junior 1 Fairtrade banana muffins, by Miss Ollier

Date: 13th Mar 2016 @ 7:32pm

The last fortnight has been Fairtrade fortnight and in school on Thursday we had a special day to celebrate this and came off our usual timetable to take part in a range of activities to learn about the importance of Fairtrade. In KS2 we were luck to have talk from a gentleman do who lives in our school community to talk to us about his involvement and work for the company traidcraft who sol a range of Fairtrade products. We also had the opportunity to make banana muffins with Dave from Tesco who came to work with our class. We then made flags with the Fairtrade logo on to go in our muffins and to show that we had bought Fairtrade products to make our muffins with. Take a look at the photos below to see how the children got on;

 

Computing - Tangrams, by Miss Ollier

Date: 26th Feb 2016 @ 5:31pm

Today the children in year 4 took part in their final Computing session for this term. They were challeged to create tangrams using a range of different shapes and to give their friends instructions. The children enjoyed the tangram website so much that I promised to put the link on the school website. Please click on the image below to take you straight to it:

Mission X - Crew Training , by Miss Ollier

Date: 26th Feb 2016 @ 5:19pm

Today the children in Junior 1 worked with Miss Ollier, Miss Finn and Mr Thackray to complete the Crew Training Challenge from the Mission X Space Project. The children had to work in small teams to build space puzzles. The children were awarded team points for being the team who showed the best teamwork, including taking turns and sharing the responsibilities. The children have also been awarded another Mission Badge and have now completed both levels 1 and 2.

Take a look at the photographs below to find out more;

 

Environmental Study Year 4, by Miss Ollier

Date: 26th Feb 2016 @ 5:10pm

Today the Year 4 children worked with Miss Ollier in Science and went to the vegetable patch to observe and find out if any creatures or insects had 'moved in' to the bug huts that they had built last half term. They created 'Bug Shopping Lists' to record the insects that they found. They then worked with a partner, chose one of their insects and use the natural resources that they could find in the area to make pictures of them. Take a look at the photographs below to see how the children got on;

 

Mission X - Train like an astronaut - Martian Mountain, by Miss Ollier

Date: 25th Feb 2016 @ 10:52pm

Today the children in Junior 1 completed their 9th Mission X Challenge. They had to use their skills of coordination and agility to climb to as high as they could on the ladder of the apparatus. They then had to stop on one of the rungs and sit of the rung in a way that they felt was most suitable for being safe and well balanced. The children will be completing their next challenge tomorrow and we hope to earn our next Mission X badge,

Junior 2 Hour of Code, by Miss Ollier

Date: 25th Feb 2016 @ 10:47pm

This afternoon the children in Junior 2 worked with Miss Ollier, on the I-Pads, to undertake the 'Hour of Code' challenge through the Code.org website (https://code.org/learn). The children worked brilliantly in pairs and supported each other well to complete each of the challanges that they faced as they got progressively harder. The children had to write algorithms, they had to de-bug and they had to use function and conditional instructions.

 

Mission X - Train like an Astronaut Challenge, by Miss Ollier

Date: 24th Feb 2016 @ 8:42pm

Today the children in Junior 1 continued their Mission X Space Challenge. They undertook the 'Tim Peake Lift Off' Challenge and the 'Do a space walk' challenge. The children enjoyed trying to walk like a bear and found moving like a crab the a challenge. We earned another badge from the challenge today;

Mission X- Train like an Astronaut- Space Project, by Miss Ollier

Date: 21st Feb 2016 @ 4:15pm

Last half term the children in Junior 1 started to undertake the Mission X- Train like an Astronaut Space Project. The children undertook a variety of PE actvities that helped them to learnt more about why it is important for astronauts, like Tim Peake, to train and do plenty of excercise when they are in space.

We completed 5 activities for Level 1 including;

  1. Mission Control
  2. Crew Strength Training
  3. Jump for the moon
  4. Reduced Gravity
  5. Speed of Light

Just before the half term break we undertook our first actvitiy from Level 2 called Astro-agility course and during the next half term we will complete 4 more actvities to complete level 2 and then another two circuit training actvities to complete the PE challenge.

We have been recording what we have learnt and the points that we have earned in our Mission X Challenge books and we have earned 3 badges so far and the level 1 badge.

Click on the images below to watch to watch the video of Tim Peake introducing the challenge;

 

Take a look at the images below of some of our books and the badges that we have eanred as a team;

 

Physical Features in Brazil, by Miss Ollier

Date: 6th Feb 2016 @ 6:24pm

This week, with Mrs Thackray, the children in Junior 1 used the internet to reserach some of the physical features that could be found in Brazil. They made posters using Microsoft Publisher to copy and paste in the images that they could find. These posters have been put up on the wall in the classroom.

Is Rio Ready?, by Miss Ollier

Date: 6th Feb 2016 @ 6:14pm

This term the children in Junior 1 have been learning about Brazil and specifically Rio as that is where the Olypic games are being held. Therefore, in their topic lessons, which focus on History and Geography they have been studying South America and using maps and atlases to locate South America and they have specifically located the different countries. They have studied the capital cities and have made maps to show this in their topic books.

Junior 1 French, by Miss Ollier

Date: 2nd Feb 2016 @ 9:58pm

Today the children in Junior 1 learnt how to talk about the weather in French and also the names of the seasons. Click on the website link below to listen to theme at home;

https://youtu.be/uoXMlCqxPTo

Cosmic classroom, by Miss Ollier

Date: 2nd Feb 2016 @ 9:48pm

This afternoon the children in Junior 1 and 3 were able to observe Tim Peake speaking to the nation live from the ISS. The children were able to see Tim on the ISS and learn more about how less gravity affected his life whilst on the ISS. It was an amazing experience!

Making 3D shapes, by Miss Ollier

Date: 29th Jan 2016 @ 7:42pm

This week Miss Ollier's Maths group has been learning more about 2D and 3D shapes. They have been naming them, finding out about their properties and in Thursdays lesson they had the opportunity to build some of their own using the polygon construction materials. Take a look at the photographs below to see which shapes they made.

Year 3 and 4 Residential Rhyd-y-Creueu, by Miss Ollier

Date: 26th Jan 2016 @ 10:13pm

On Wednesday 20th to Thursday 21st January the children in Years 3 and 4 at St Johns School went on their first residential to Rhyd-y-Creueu in Betws-y-Coed. The children had a fanstatic few days and were able to take part in a range of different outdoor activities including looking for insects in different micro-habitats and using objects that they could find in the environment to create some outside art work.

In the evening the children undertook a night time walk and listened out for bats and owls. They were also able to see their own moon shadows because there was no light pollution and they looked at the stars. On the second day the children went looking for creatures that lived in the river. They did the 10 shuffle steps to move the rocks around on the bed of the river and collected the creatures in nets. They put them into buckets and then studied them further in the classroom.

In addition to all of these educational actitivies the children also got to spend lots of time with their class mates eating meals, in their dormatories and watching a film in the evening. It was to first time that many of the children had been away from home on their own and so they should all be very proud that they attended the residential and we are really pleased that they had lots of fun!!! smiley

Look at the photograph  slide show below to see how much fun the children had; 

Tim Peake Space Walk, by Miss Ollier

Date: 15th Jan 2016 @ 8:36pm

Hello Junior 1,

As promised here is link for you to see amazing clips of Tim Peake's space walk on the CBBC website.

Click on the image below to go straight there;

Year 4 Computing, by Miss Ollier

Date: 8th Jan 2016 @ 6:00pm

This afternoon in Computing the Year 4 children had the opportunity to learn about a 'Function' in computer sciences. A function is when you have a list of instructions (code or algorithm) that you can ask for over and over again. However, it is simplified. For example in a song instead of writing the Chorus words out over and over again, each time they are sang, instead you could just write the word 'Chorus' inbetween the verses.

If you want to practice using 'Functions', click on the two images below to play the Code.org games;

Artist Functions

Bee Functions

 

 

 

Follow Tim Peake's Mission, by Miss Ollier

Date: 8th Jan 2016 @ 5:51pm

Keep update date with Tim's Mission by watching the following videos;

New Year Message

Bitesize Resources - Tim Peake

 

Year 4 Science- Environmental Study, by Miss Ollier

Date: 8th Jan 2016 @ 5:45pm

Today the children in Year 4 worked with Miss Ollier and Miss Finn to undertake their Spring 1 Enviromental Study. They went to the vegetable patch to study what was growing. They then were challenged with the task of building a 'Bug Hut' out to the materials that they could find in the area. The children use sticks, twigs and leaves to create their own 'Bug Hut'. The children also used other objects, such as plastic pipes and plastic plant pots. After the February half term the children will be able to go back to look at their 'Bug Huts' and they will be able to see which creatures have 'moved in'.

See the photographs below;

 

Junior 1 French Days of the Week, by Miss Ollier

Date: 6th Jan 2016 @ 7:19pm

Yesterday the children in Junior 1 learnt the names of the days of the week in French. They also listened to 'The Ver Hugery Caterpillar' story by Eric Carle in French. Click on the link below to hear the days of the week in French and to hear the story.

Space Fest- Celebrating the Launch of Tim Peake to the ISS, by Miss Ollier

Date: 15th Dec 2015 @ 3:11pm

This morning the Year 3 and 4 children in Junior 1 were lucky enough to attend the Space Fest Event at Elworth Hall Primary School. The event was to celebrate the launch of Tim Peake to the International Space Station. We celebrated the launch by sending a giant balloon with a pay load attached and we look forward to receiving the photographs and other sensor data that it collects. Isabelle's mission patch won the competition from our class and her patch was attached to the outside of the payload with the winning entries from the other schools who attended.

We then watched the live launch of the Soyuz Space Rocket with Tim Peake and his team on board to the ISS. It was a wonderful atmosphere celebrating with so many other school children. We then launched pop bottle rockets that we had made in school and the children were able to watch parachutes that they had made be dropped from a cherry picker crane. We were amazed because not one of our 4 eggs cracked when they hit the ground.

The children had a fantastic morning at the Space Fest and were an absolute credit to St Johns School.

Well done Junior 1! Now we can continue with our Mission X, Train like an Astronaut Challenge.

See the photographs and videos below to find out more;

Click on the image below to see a 'Live' timetable of Tim Peake's launch. There are even videos for you to watch!

Tim Peake    

 

Parts of a plant, by Miss Ollier

Date: 5th Dec 2015 @ 11:03am

In Science on Friday 4th December the children in year 3 had the opportunity to disect the head of a flower. The children were challenged to work with a partner and to take a flower head apart carefuly so that they could find the different parts. They then had to stick the parts on to a piece of cardboard and label them correctly. I was extremely impressed with the children's ability to undertake this activity with the care that it required and their enthusiasm to label the sections corrects.

Below their are links to 2 websites which are fun for learning about plant growth and photographs of the disected flowers;

 

 

Environmental Study Hedgehogs, by Miss Ollier

Date: 6th Nov 2015 @ 4:54pm

This morning the children in Year 3 took part in their second environmental study lesson of this academic year. Today they went out to study the Oak Tree on the school playground and made detailed sketches of the Oak Tree in their science books. The children then collected twigs from around the tree and and used them and other art materials, such as clay and googly eyes, to make hedgehogs. Take a look at the photographs below to see some of the hedgehogs;

  

Finishing decorating our mummies., by Miss Ollier

Date: 19th Oct 2015 @ 10:05pm

A couple of weeks ago the children in Junior 1 made their own Egyptian Mummies out of clay and then wrapped them using mod-rock. Last week we added colour to the mummies through designing a colourful sarcophagus and then using felt tips pens to add detail. Take a look at the photographs below to see how detailed and colourful the mummies are;

Space Passports - Out of this World, by Miss Ollier

Date: 18th Oct 2015 @ 6:46pm

On Wednesday and Thursday last week the children in Years 3 and 4 started work on the 'Out of this World' Space Project. The children were given their Space Passports and were awared their stickers for their first two pages. They found out about Tim Peake who is the first Bristish astronaut from the European Space Agency to be going to the Ineternational Space Station (ISS). He will be leaving for the Space Station on 15th December 2015 and will be there for 6 months. They researched Tim Peake and creating a Learning Log and they also wrote some questions to ask Tim when he returns back to Earth. They also found out some information about the ISS and located 5 countries on a map of Europe which are part of the ESA. They have also designed their own Mission Patch for St Johns School.

Click on the links below to find out more about:

  • Tim Peake

  • The European Space Agency for Kids

  • The International Space Station- Take a Panormic Tour    

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