Partial Eclipse and Pi work .

We all went outside to experience the partial eclipse. Armed with our pin hole cameras, we positioned our pin holes and saw the crescent shape on our white paper. Success! We felt the change in the temperature- it went really cold as well as going gloomy after being really sunny and bright. The birds flew up to the tree tops but carried on singing.
Once back in class we even managed to include this in our Beowulf writing! Suddenly the sky grew dark...something had awoken....something that lived in the abyss between the moon and the sun....

making sure we did not look directly at the sun

lining our pinhole cameras up

if you look closely you will see the crescent shape of the eclipse

success

March 14th was Pi Day- so in maths we looked at different activities associated with pi and circles.

                                         Using compasses to create circle patterns.

solving calculations and finding the answer hiden in the 100 decimal places of pi.

memorising pi-how many decimal places can they memorise? 3.14.........they remembered 37 places.

solving pi based problems

more memorising-Isabella was a great teacher- she coached Jess and Sophie to remember 40 decimel places!

focusing hard

 a good mix of pi based work.