World thinking day

Imogen and Jemima  met with other brownies from Barnsley for a 'world thinking day' event. They did 7 workshops representing different countries, Europe was making chocolate, Antartica -snow globes, then there was Brazillian soccer, African drumming, a bug parade, cheer leading and singing,

Sports sessions

The girls began weekly sports sessions, this week was basket ball. Each session is followed by a healthy eating session and then a swim.

tangram puzzler

Using identical tangram pieces, we split into two teams and put up a barrier so we couldn't see each others pieces. We then took it in turns to add a piece and describe it's position. It was a great opportunity for using mathematical terms and names, and describing accurately position.
The patterns turned out pretty much identical.

The twingram puzzle

Using 'dark' and 'light' tangram pieces we created more pictures.

Chinese Tangrams

We looked at the history of tangrams, in fact they may not have originated from China! Following the rules of tangrams we made pictures.

Chinese New Year Poems

 

To assess knowledge and understanding of Chinese new year, I got the girls to write acrostic poems. We brain stormed vocab. associated with China/ Chinese new year and then wrote the poems.Imogen then wanted to write her own poem. Later the girls spotted an acrostic poem where the vertical word was in the middle of the poem, so maybe we'll try that next.

Chocolate cascades

Using junk modelling materials, we made chocolate cascade machines. The process was great for discussing the relationships between slopes, angles and speed.