We are still working with our IPC-topic 'Turn it up' in different subjects. In Literacy we have worked with useful vocabulary and with texts about sound, noise and silence. In Science we made a long decibel line in our shared room, to show how quiet or how loud different sounds around us are. We also know that there is a pain limit, that sounds start to hurt at a certain level (around 130 dB) and that we can damage our ears if we listen to too loud music or if sounds around us are too loud. We also tried to do another experiment, but since the walls here at the school are really thick, it didn't really work out as planned... again! But, since we are resilient, we will not give up, but try again! There are still many exciting tasks to work with in our unit! More sound experiments will come!
Tuesday afternoon we took a walk down to the Public Library in Ghent. We borrowed many books and we have to confess that the walk back to school was a bit slower than the walk down to Ghent Zuid. But we now have lots of lovely books in our two 'Public LIbrary books' boxes and the pupils are so eager to sit down and read them! It was absolutely worth the hard work!
We have worked with fractions in numeracy, and for the ones working with fractions for the first time, it has been a challenge. Pupils in year 4, 5 and 6 revisited the topic, but now on a more challenging level. We have worked with different strategies and looked at different ways of explaining what a fraction of a thing of a number is, what equivalent fractions are and how we can reduce fractions.
Then we worked hard in literacy as well. Apart from the guided reading, the grammar and the English skills work, we have also been writing recounts. We have looked a model texts and used them to write good recounts. The pupils worked really hard and did their best writing. The whiteboard was full with useful words and facts! Upper Primary pupils wrote about the trip to the Sound Factory or the walk to the Public Library. Miss Jenny and Miss Catherine were impressed!
We have also started printing with our cool sound wave patterns on lino blocks. It looks fantastic and the result will be even more amazing. Once we have finished off the activity we would like to share our beautiful artwork with the rest of the school and hang it up on the wall in the hallway. Keep your eyes open! We hope you will like it! You can see some photos from the art lesson and other lessons here!
During the PE lesson, the pupils really were acrobats this week! They were building human statues and Miss Jenny was impressed when she heard what they had been doing during the lesson, she only saw the warm up...
