We made duck puppets!

We had great conversations with each other.

We talked and quacked and talked and quacked.

Use the diagram to fill in the gaps.

1. The white part of the eyeball is called the _____.

It has the important job of covering most of the eyeball.

2. Behind the cornea is the ______. It’s the colourful part of the eye.

It has _______ attached to it that change its shape –

this allows the iris to control how much light goes through the pupil.

3. The ______ is the black circle in the center of the iris.

It’s really an opening in the iris & lets _____ enter the eye.

4. The cornea, a transparent dome, sits in front of the coloured eye.

The cornea helps the eye ______.

5. After light enters the pupil, it hits the lens.

The lens sits behind the iris and is clear and colourless.

The lens’ job is to focus light rays on the back of the eyeball – a part called the ________.

The retina sends messages (by the optic nerve) to the brain

so we understand what we are seeing.

We have been learning about Louis Braille in History. Here are some interesting facts.

Did you Know?

• Louis was born in France near Paris.
• His father was a saddler and he also made leather shoes.
• Louis injured his left eye and lost his sight in that eye while he was playing with his father’s awl. Some time later his other eye became infected and he became totally blind.
• He went to a school in Paris for blind children.
• He invented an alphabet which was easier to read than the raised letters that were used. His alphabet was based on using a combination of 6 dots.
• His Braille Alphabet was not accepted at first, he used to teach other students how to use it in secret.
• Louis became a teacher.
• His Braille Alphabet is used throughout the world.

We have been learning about Alexander Graham Bell in History.  Here are some interesting things we have learnt.

Did you know?

• Alexandar Graham Bell was born in Scotland.
• His mother was deaf. She was a musician and a painter.
• Mr. Bell’s father was a teacher. He taught deaf people.
• Alexander only went to school for 5 years.
• The Bell family moved to Canada.
• Alexander Graham Bell opened a school for the deaf in Boston. 
• He accidently invented the telephone.
• His assistant was called Mr. Watson.
• The first words spoken on the phone were ” Mr. Watson, come here I need you”

 We have finished reading our novel “The owl who was afraid of the dark”

We wrote fact files on barn owls. We researched information on the internet and then we wrote our reports. We used this website to find out information http://www.barnowltrust.org.uk/.

Click on the link to read our reports.

Barn Owl Reports Part 1 

Barn Owl Reports Part 2 

Barn Owl Reports Part 3 

Barn Owl Reports Part 4

We have been busy making patterns in Room 1 this week.

We used buttons, peg boards, camels and links.

Look at our colourful patterns in our photostory.

PhotoStory2

We are studying ‘The Eye’ in science.

How do we see things?

As an introduction to our topic, we looked at the following pictures.

Click to enlarge, & talk to your friend or Mum & Dad  – what do you see?   🙂

http://www.sudokulive.net/

We have completed sudoku puzzles on the netbooks. 

On average, each puzzle took 7 mins. Challenge yourself to beat 7minutes!

You can select your own level.