BFG Fun

Today is the last day of the term and Mrs Jackson decided to do something a little different. We spent the morning in the world of Roald Dahl's 'The BFG'. We completed lots of different activities based around the book that included reading or listening to extracts from the book. We explored the different language that Roald Dahl used to describe characters in the story. We also found new made up words that he had created and decided whether they were positive words or not. Next we had a go at coming up with some new words of our own...

'smag' - smurf tag
'chiburger' - chicken burger
'cumato' - cucumber tomato

Who knows? They might catch on!!

One of the themes from the BFG is 'dreams'. As a class we talked about the two different types of dreams you can have - the sleeping kind and the goals for our future kind. We came up with our own goals for the future and wrote them down. Mrs Jackson created a Dream Jar to keep all of our dreams safe. Hopefully they don't mix themselves up like the BFG's dreams or we could have some pretty interesting futures!!

Everyone worked really hard all morning - well done Room 7! What a fun way to end the term!

Our class Dream Jar

Maths, Paper Planes and Giants!

Over the last two weeks we have been exploring measurement for maths, focusing on length. We used two different contexts to practice our measuring skills. We made paper planes and measured how far they flew. We made one modification to our planes and tested them to see if it helped our planes fly further. We measured and compared wingspan and flight distances.
This week on Monday Mrs Jackson bought out a photocopy of an enormous hand print! Our challenge was to see if we could create a formula that we could use to determine how tall the giant was using the measurements from the hand print. To do this we measured our own hand spans, length and width and our height. We learnt how to convert metres to centimetres so that we could convert our height measurements. Then we used calculators to divide our height by our hand span. We tabled our data and we found that most of us had similar answers. Most of the answers were around 8 - 9 cm. We concluded that if we multiplied the giants hand span by 8.5 we would be able to tell how tall he would be. He ended up being 2.47 m tall! That is taller than Steven Adams the NBA player! We were glad he wasn't a real giant!

Folding our paper planes

Hannah lying beside 'our giant'.