In this lesson, we wanted to find out if Bronze age people had religion or believed in God. We found out about the Stonehenge and what people thought it was used for. We found out that a lot of archaeologists believed it was used for religious purposes. They also thought it could be used for a burial site.  

We then created a replica of the Stonehenge using lego, mutli link cubes and playdough. We made sure we included the features such as the altar, the heel stone and Outer Circle of Sarsen stones.  

In Art, we have been looking at prehistoric art. We have been building on our existing drawing skills from previous units and have applied these in our drawings. We drew 2 different owls- one in pencil and one in charcoal. The first drawing we did was our initial sketch which saw us examining the image we were drawing from- looking at the 2D shapes we got from it. We know that everything is made from 2D shapes and when you focus on those when drawing, it is a lot easier! 

We then moved on to our second drawing of our owl. This time we had to scale up our drawing onto large paper. We also used charcoal which is burnt wood. This can create lots of great effects- especially the smudging technique. We focused on using different tones in our drawings to make them 'come alive'. 

We then displayed all of our owls outside of our group room so we can see them and remind ourselves of how far we have come in our art skills! 

We are a;ao impressed with the home learners who joined us with this lesson. Children at home got to choose what media they wanted to draw their owl with. Some children used pencils while some chose to use chalk. We are very impressed with all of the children's attitude to art. What great artists we are all becoming! 

As part of our bar graph unit, we asked children at home to get smarties or starburst to create their own bar graph. The children at school has starburst to complete a bar graph. 

They had to collate the data and then create the X axis and the Y axis. They decided what scale to use and how to label the two lines of axis. 

We are very proud of the level of presentation and determination shown by the children in school and at home. 

For our Stone age topic, we have been learning about what the Stone Age people needed to survive. We found out that they needed tools to survive so they could hunt food to eat! Key Worker children and children at home completed an advert to try and sell their tools to a Stone Age man! 

For our Geography this week, we have been learning about tectonic plates. We learnt that there are three types of plates which cause different things. To completely immersive the children in their learning, we showed the tectonic plates movement using biscuits. The children could see this very clearly and were able to apply this to their work. All children were able to resist eating them!

Maybe you could try this at home and eat them! Yummy Tectonic Plates!