Medieval History

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This term Social Studies is all about Spain’s history. We are learning so much about how Spanish citizens lived. We have learnt about their every day life, different religions, and how things have changed since the first recordings of man.

We have found it very interesting to learn how Spain developed into a powerful empire. It was the Catholic Monarachs Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand who paid Christopher Columbus to make his historic trip. It´s very funny to think Christopher Columbus travelled 4 times to America believing that each time he was in India. He died not knowing that he had discovered a new continent!

We have done lots of research on Christopher Columbus and did you know that nobody knows where his body was buried?

We have also done lots of art work. Such as cave paintings, where we painted with sticks. We have made castles and today we made Maya masks. Who would have thought history was so interesting?

Martí Salvador and Joan de Castro

Maths is everywhere!

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Maths this term has been really interesting. We have done a lot of practical maths which has been so much fun! Every Monday we turn into detectives and use maths to solve murder mysteries. Some of us are going to be great policemen one day!

Last week we brought in board games.

When we were playing them we were actually doing maths. For example in the game of Monopoly we were using money, counting and probability. It was great to be so rich and to be able to buy so many houses and hotels. It wasn’t much fun being sent to prison though!

Another group played a game called Life . The aim of this  game is to make a  new life for yourself. In this game they  used lots of different maths operations such as adding and dividing. Again this was another game which involved the use of money and probablity

We are also trying really hard to improve our times tables. Although we know them, we are trying to be faster with our responses. Every week we do mini competitions and its really exciting. We really are getting faster at them!

This term we have also looked at area and perimeter which will help us to grow up and be architects. Now we are looking at how to represent different statistics in tables and in different types of graphs. Miss Vicki was upset that we don’t eat pie charts!! On Friday we are going to collect our own information and put our findings into a graph of our choice.

We have learnt a lot of different maths and in a lot of fun ways!

Roger Pelaez and Paula Guilera

 

 

ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS

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In class we have been learning about the different energy sources which exist in our world .  We have a lot of kinetic energy in our class!!  We had great fun presenting our knowledge on this. Emma was very funny trying to run faster than light!

Yesterday we looked at different types of  electricity , we made a closed electric  circuit which made a light switch on. ¨Closed” means that all the wires are connected together.  We didnt’t get an electric shock as the wires were protected with a plastic insulator. Some of us even got to connect motors and a light at the same time.

It was a very interesting lesson. We would like to do more lessons like this!

Mar Aguilar and Emma Geremias