Welcome to Opal Class Blog

Our class blog will be updated each week so keep a close eye on what we have all been, up to.

 

Class Read

After lunch every day, the class teacher reads some of our class book to the class. Our class book will be available to see here.

  

We chose our class book for this term:

Dave pigeon (kittens!) by Swapna Haddow. 

BOOT (Small Robot Big Adventure) by Shane Hegarty

WOW! WORD

Each week we will be selecting a word of the week as a WOW word. Please try and use our word of the week in your homework or in class work. Extra house points and stickers are up for grabs.

WOW, Word! Of the week:

(20th September): VISCOSITY 

(27th September): VELOCITY 

(4th October) : EXOTIC 

(11th October): PERSONIFICATION

(18th October): COMMOTION

(11th November) :DECAYING

(18th November): CHOCOLATE

(25th November): VIBRANT 

MATHS

During our Maths lessons we have been learning more about Roman numerals, we explored higher numbers by playing a pairing game. Check out our Photo Gallery.

SCIENCE

During this first half of the term in science, we have been looking at solids, liquids and gases.

We completed an experiment using shower gel, honey and water. We created a slope and timed how long it took for each item to reach the bottom of our slope. We timed each one three times. Our results showed that water has the least viscosity. Honey had the highest viscosity.

During the second half of the autumn term, in our science lessons, we have been learning all about animals, including humans.  Our digestive system takes all the nutrients and minerals our body needs from food to stay healthy, and we have 32 adult teeth! 

We used large pieces of paper and drew around our classmates. We then used cards to establish where different parts of our digestive system are located in our body. 

 

 

 

 

 

History

During this term in history we learnt about the Mayans and how important chocolate was to the Mayans. We then had a fantastic opportunity to have a chocolate workshop come into our school to teach us about how chocolate goes from a cocoa bean to the delicious bars of different chocolates that appear on our shelves these days.

During our chocolate workshop, children had the opportunity to make their own chocolate lolly, weigh out some chocolates and even had some tasting of different flavoured chocolate.

Photos will be available shortly in our class gallery.

 

Design and Technology

During our Design and technology lessons, we have been planning and practising our sewing techniques. We have been threading needles and learning different stitches. Opal are professionals at threading needles! We are now reaching the stage where we will be making our planned product of a waterproof drawstring bag. We have measured and cut our fabric and are heading towards threading those needles for the final time. We hope for our bags to be completed by Christmas.