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Alumwell Junior School,Primley Avenue, Walsall,England, WS2 9UP
Alumwell
Junior School
Welcome to Class 4
Games lessons are on a Tuesday afternoon.
PE lessons are on a Friday morning.
Remember to bring your PE kit.
Biscuit Baking
We have been very busy this week in Class 4 taste testing and baking biscuits.
Chocolate chip cookies were our favourites!
Lots of you have been asking for the recipe to try at home. I would love to see any photos of your home baking. Good luck bakers!
Basic Biscuit Recipe
Ingredients:
Equipment:
Method:
Fossils
We have loved learning about fossils in Class 4. Here are some of our own fossil impressions using salt dough. Here is the recipe I used to make the salt dough if you would like to have a go at home:
How to make salt dough
Makes 1 ball
Prep 10 minutes
Cook 3 hours
Method
1. Preheat the oven to its lowest setting and line a baking sheet with baking parchment.
2. Mix the flour and salt in a large bowl. Add the water and stir until it comes together into a ball.
3. Transfer the dough to a floured work surface and shape into your chosen model. We moulded the dough into a circle and gently pressed shells and toy dinosaurs until it made an impression.
4. Put your finished items on the lined baking sheet and bake for 3 hrs or until solid.
5. Leave to cool and then paint.
Slime!!!!
Class 4 had lots of fun in science this week making slime (and lots of mess) as part of our new States of Matter topic. We looked at the differences between solids, liquids and gases and discussed how some materials behave like a solid and a liquid. These are called non-Newtonian fluids, an example of which is slime.
We followed a recipe to make the slime and then played with it to see how it behaves like a solid and a liquid. Here are our results!
British Science Week
As part of British Science Week, we have been learning all about connections. Class 4 learnt about how the role of a Crime Scene Investigator is connected to the role of a Police Officer to help catch criminals. We looked at our own fingerprints and learnt how Crime Scene Investigators searched for them as evidence to help the police with their work.
Class 4 then used art pencils and sticky tape to look closely at their own fingerprints. Do you have arches, loops or whorls?
Alumwell Junior School,Primley Avenue, Walsall,England, WS2 9UP