The weather was windy, but dry and sunny (weren't we lucky). Witches, vampires, princesses, ghosts and many other assorted people arrived at school to take part in our annual "Witches Walk". It was a thoroughly enjoyable walk, and we made lots of money for the school and for charity. (Total to be announced when all the money is in). Well done to all the children, parents and teachers for the huge effort involved in getting everyone dressed up, and for the money raised.
Back at the school we had time to take photos of all the fabulous costumes. 
Look at the witches and wizards, vampires, pumpkin, princesses, cat, dark vador and skeletons from Room 5.
We had a small Halloween party in the class. Thanks to all the children for bringing treats to share, and especially to Jordan who made some fabulous decorated pumpkin mandarins.
We have been talking about recycling. Today we visited the bottle bank to see if we could figure out what goes in each recycling bin.
At school we try to reduce litter by bringing reusable bottles and lunch boxes, by taking our lunch rubbish home and by not littering. We reduce the amount of water we use by pushing the green button on the toilets, and by switching taps off after us.
We then plunged the cup (upside down) in a basin of water. We had to guess does the tissue get wet or stay dry. 
All sprays work in the same way.
and our pumpkins and Halloween prints?
When we blow at the tissue, most of the air goes around the tissue, hits the back of the bottle, and comes back out again (after bouncing off the back of the bottle). This pushes the tissue out of, rather than into the bottle. We can make the tissue ball go into the bottle, by blowing right at it using a straw.
Today we tried an interesting investigation using hot air (from a hair dryer). We tried holding a table tennis ball over a hair dryer. The rising hot air keeps the ball floating in the air, with the help of gravity so the ball doesn't fly out of the air stream. 
This experiment doesn't work with a heavy bouncy ball because this is too heavy for the air to lift, or with a light foam ball since this ball is too light to stay in the warm air flow so it gets knocked over very 
We found lots of hazel nuts, lovely coloured leaves, mushrooms, and even a huge slug! 
We went inside another crannóg and made a lovely autumn collage with the treasures we had found, then played a gr
eat woodland creature game with a parachute and some balls (which we pretended were nuts). 
Our tour was great fun and we learned lots. We can't wait to go back there again.
and snakes and ladders. 
We play these games during Maths Activity time. We learn lots about numbers when we play these games.
the ghosts scaring people,
spiders spinning a web,
children carving out a pumpkin to make a jack-o-lantern, 
and skeletons disco dancing at a party.
We have been talking a lot about scarecrows. Today we did a scarecrow dance. The scarecrows could hear lots of birds and tried to scare them away but they could only move in the breeze. We had nice scarecrow music. It was fun.
One of the girls in our class has a mum with a very interesting job. She is a chef in a hotel. She came to our class today to tell us all about being a chef. She made and brought with her a rose made from an apple. It looked and smelled wonderful. 
First of all Hau told us all about keeping our hands clean, when and how we should wash our hands, and how dangerous it is to touch food with dirty hands….that is how we can pick up germs. 
Next she showed us how to make a lovely strawberry meringue dessert. You need meringues, cream, and chopped up strawberries and grapes. We all tried too (after we washed our hands of course)!
