Maple Class

Our essential question for our project is ‘How can we survive through the ages?’

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We learned that triangles are the strongest shapes. Can you spot triangulation in our bridges?

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After learning about the Vasco Da Gama bridge we had a go at creating our own. First we learned how to create a jinks and what they are used for.

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Creating Earth Day crafts and artwork!

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Some pictures from our busy term 😊 We have enjoyed Earth day with pond dipping 🐸

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Our focus this week is division in our maths fluency sessions. We used numicon shapes, rods & tracks, pictorial representations and counters to help us solve the calculations😊

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Today we have been french text detectives using the online dictionary to find animal words. We learned that nouns can either be masculine (un) or feminine (une).

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We had a go at playing pentatonic melodies 😊

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We loved our music session!

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In music this week we have been learning about pentatonic scales and melodies. We practised a pentatonic scale on a glockenspiel focusing on fluency, accuracy and having control 🎶

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Here is a snippet from our ‘Dragon Ships’ folk song from today 😊 We loved singing!

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Maple had a good time at the Hull museum learning about pre history.

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In our maths fluency session we have been exploring ways to add 9 to a number. We began by using concrete resources before investigating what changes happen to the number.

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Today we have created our own Bell beaker pots out of clay 😀

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We made log boats and roundhouses with Lego.

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We practised looming with wool.