Making new materials

Upper Primary pupils are now exploring the wonderful world of science! They are learning specific vocabulary for this unit and regularly add words and explanations to their Marvellous Materials Glossary. During this unit Upper Primary will learn about the properties of different material, and use their enquiring minds to ask good scientific questions. They will also learn how to write a science report, using words like hypothesis, procedure and result.

We started our unit with an Entry Point and a Knowledge Harvest and the pupils are now eager to learn more about solids, liquids and gases. Our unit display says “baking is science for hungry people”, so the pupils are quite sure they will get the chance to bake during this unit. Exciting…

Our IPC personal goal for November is Co-operation. Upper Primary pupils showed excellent co-operation skills when organising the library books for the trip down to the library the other day. I was happy to see and hear the team work going on! Since then, Upper Primary pupils have shown in many different situations how they can co-operate, help and support each other, and together as a team reach the best result.

Our class book at the moment is “Kensuke’s kingdom”. It is an adventure book, about a boy that ends up on a small island, together with his dog. He thinks he is all alone on the island. After a while he meets an old man called Kensuke. We still don’t know how Kensuke ended up on the island. It is a very exciting book!