Giraffes@taddy

  As part of Black History week, we have made posters with the theme Proud to be me based on the women of NASA. We have been reading  Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race   this half term and have found out a lot about the segregation, prejudice and obstacles which    Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Christine Darden had to overcome. 

   Yesterday afternoon we had our first formal debate in Topic and loved every minute of it. We had the statement: This house believes that Scientists were right to demote Pluto from planet status to dwarf planet status. We looked at the language and structure of a debate then did some research into the reasons behind the statement before finally having our debate which we all really enjoyed.  

  We were so excited to have a visit from the planetarium today and learn about space in the space show inside the planetarium. Irina was  our very knowledgeable guide.. We had to enter really quickly so that the dome didn’t deflate. It was dark inside so we listened listened carefully and we had to shout out the answers to questions. We impressed  Irina  because we remembered a lot of facts that we had learned before in science and topics. We learned lots of new things too... including how to sleep in space! I learned about one of Jupiter's moons. The surface is covered in ice and under the ice is water. It would take us 5 years to get there. The temperature on Venus is 460 DE I learned that to get to Mars it takes 6  months .I also learned that Jupiter has a  moon that is made of ice and under the ice is water .Jupiter and Saturn are made of gas so you can't land on them .This is very interesting:  the sun is not actually the biggest star there are o...

We made soup  for harvest.  We  all brought in some vegetables  so we had a really good selection. We carefully peeled and chopped them to add to our soup. We used a sharp knife, so we had to be really careful. Giraffes had some very impressive  hopping skills - I can see that some of you have done this before! We cooked the vegetables to make the vegetable soup.  It looks delicious!  On Friday, as part of our Computing lessons , we designed and published posters advertising our soup selling. The children took their posters home to advertise the event. W e hope that you will be able to join us to enjoy the children’s homemade soup.