Rowan Class

Rowan Class are learning lots about Materials in Science this term. We have looked at man-made and natural materials and also at whether you can change the shape of some materials by twisting, bending or stretching them. We investigated whether these changes were reversible or irreversible.

The highlight of the lesson on Tuesday was the great “Curly Wurly Challenge”. Each table group was given a Curly Wurly chocolate bar and the task to try and stretch it as long as possible in 3 minutes. We had to work in teams and quickly realized that the softer the toffee was the easier it became to stretch it. Messy!

Cars table came top with 46cm, closely followed by Tractors 35.5cm, Boats 30cm, Trains 29cm and Planes with24cm. Well done everyone.

We didn’t break the world record, but we sure had fun trying.

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-2000/longest-curly-wurly-stretching/

This year, Rowan Class would like to start a regular blog and keep everybody updated about all the lovely things that are happening in our class. Here are just a few things that the children wanted to say about their first week in Year 2:

“I enjoyed learning about how to use different types of letters and colours in Word on the computer. We wrote our names and everybody’s looked different.” (Shiven)

“Having a lovely class and seeing all our friends again after the summer holidays.” (Scarlett)

“If we work well, we get keys for opening the treasure chest. Tractors table was the first to win a prize from our treasure chest.”(Leo)

“Painting pictures to do with our transport topic “,(Jemima) “and also transport pictures on the computer.”(Amelia)

“I really enjoyed PE – doing the different jumps and balancing.” (Megan)

“The transport topic is really exciting.” (Alfie)

“It was fun to order numbers on our caterpillars.”(Amelie)

“We really enjoyed writing our own music using long and short sounds.”(Eve)

Lola enjoyed holding up the class certificate in assembly.

Well done, Rowan Class, for a lovely first couple of weeks! Keep checking back here for more updates on what’s going on in Rowan Class.

Rowan class are enjoying the snow today.