Welcome to Class 3 - Mrs Mitchell's Class
Class PE Day – Tuesday & Thursday
How do muscles work in pairs?
We learnt that muscles pull rather than push and that they have to move in pairs to move our bones. To demonstrate this, we attached two balloons to a kitchen roll tube and saw that when one muscle contracted (got shorter), the other one expanded (got longer), working...
Investigating artefacts
How lucky were we when Newcastle Museums Trust lent us a box of Stone Age artefacts, right from the early Stone Age to Neolithic times? We used our deductive powers to find out which period of the Stone Age they fitted into (depending on their sophistication and use...
How do we make a Stone Age roof waterproof?
We are designing a Stone Age home and decided that the roof was a very important part of the structure. We took three materials which would have been around in those days: ferns, moss and bark and devised a fair test. We poured 5ml, 10ml and 15ml of water on each and...
Visiting 3L’s Stone Age Museum
We were lucky enough to be invited to Mrs Lynch's class' museum this afternoon, which they have set up in Hall 2. They have displayed a range of artefacts from the Stone Age and they have written some excellent descriptions of them too. Thank you 3L, for our invite!
Measuring muscles
In science we were investigating how muscles work in pairs, both contracting and expanding to move our bones to where we want them to be. We worked in partners, noting how muscles changed in size and shape when we lifted piles of books. We recorded our results and...
Planning a suspenseful story
After reading the story Marshmallows, we used a story pathway to help us sequence the events. It was a great story, featuring a boy scout, a river monster, a camp fire and quite a few marshmallows (but not quite enough!) We saw that the story had quite a few...