The Big Idea

Why do things change? What is the impact of change? Once something has changed, can it be undone? This term, we will consider some of the changes around us and investigate what causes them.  
At the start of the term, we will begin with looking at changing states of matter in action by making savoury muffins. We will consider the principles of a healthy diet and prepare and cook savoury snack using different cooking techniques.  

As scientists, we will continue to investigate change by learning about solids, liquids and gases. We will explore, discuss, test and develop ideas about changing states of matter by carrying out investigations involving freezing and heating. We will work scientifically by asking questions about what we want to find out the answer to, and decide how is best to investigate a question. We will plan, carry out and record simple and fair tests, observing changes over time. We will then present our findings and draw conclusions about changes that are taking place.  

We will end the term as historians, exploring how several aspects of national history has changed Dover over time. We will use old photos of our town and take a trip to Dover Seafront to compare the changes that have taken place, asking questions about the causes and consequences of the changes.  We will consider the impact these changes have had on our lives. 

Writing

In writing we are planning and creating an alternative ending to the butterfly lion, we discussed that when the Lion escaped the circus he would go on an adventure through a location and then come across his owner Bertie at school. We found it quite tricky visualising our adventure, so we described our setting and then put it through a generator, this allowed us to add more detail where we needed it! See the Green Neutral Illustrative Animals Wildlife Animated Presentation PDF at the bottom of this page!

Congratulations!

Music Festival

We were lucky enough to be invited to the singing festival at Charlton Church, it was a lovely afternoon with all the children singing the songs beautifully.

“My favourite one is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!”

“This is me makes me happy!”

Science – Making Feta and Courgette muffins

We had great fun making muffins with Miss Cowan this week. We looked at how solid and liquid ingredients mix and bake together. We discovered that you cannot separate them after they have been baked.  We have also completed some market research and created our own muffin cake box designs. We then wrote up our method and evaluated our muffins!

Writing

In writing we were looking at persuasive letters based on our book “The Butterfly Lion”, we wrote as if we were Bertie and we were convincing our dad to take the Lion with him on an adventure!

      

Congratulations

 

The Great British Butter Off

For our learning lift off, we created a Great British Butter Off! We created our own butter labels and then discussed how to make butter. We thought it was going to be really difficult but once we discussed the method we realised it was easier then anticipated.

Method:

1. Pour the cream into the jar. The jar should be about half full.

2. Put the lid on the jar and make sure it’s on tightly.

3. Now for the hard work! Shake the jar lots until you see a lump form in the 

jar. This could take a long time – maybe even ten minutes!

4. Eventually, you will see a lump and some liquid. The lump is butter and the 

liquid is buttermilk, an ingredient that can be used in lots of different things.

5. Put the sieve over a bowl. Open the jar and tip the contents into the sieve. 

6. You now have separate butter and buttermilk.

Once it has turned into butter you can not get it back to its original state.