Titanic Projects

Today we finished our Titanic Projects. We worked in groups for our projects. The Red group had to do a project on 1st class passengers on the Titanic.

Red Group


The Green group did their project on 2nd class passengers on the Titanic.

Green Group



The Yellow group did their project on 3rd class passengers on the Titanic.

Yellow Group

The Blue group did their project on the crew on the Titanic.

Blue Group

We displayed our projects outside our classroom.

Titanic

This week and last week we have been learning about the Titanic. Saturday 14th April was the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. We have been doing lots of work on the Titanic. Captain Edward John Smith even came for a visit.

Science- Heart Dissection

Last Thursday in class our teacher surprised us by bringing in sheeps hearts to dissect for our science lesson. We were learning about The Aztecs for the month of February and we learnt that The Aztecs used to sacrifice hearts to the sun god to make the sun rise up as they believed the sun died at night time. We had never seen a heart before. We prepared for the lesson by cleaning our tables, putting out books under our tables, covering our desks in newspapers and putting on old t-shirts to protect our clothes. Our teacher Kelly showed us how to look at a heart and told us what she wanted us to do. We were all so excited to touch the hearts. We were given small knives, gloves and paper plates and the the hearts. We had to work in groups on the hearts. We had two hearts per group so everyone got a chance to hold one and cut it open. We first had to find the aorta and the vena cava of the heart which was easy to find. You could put your finger into the aorta which felt funny. Next we had to cut the heart and show our teacher the 4 chambers of the heart. After that we were allowed to cut the heart and explore it. Some of us found veins and vessels in the heart. It was such a cool day getting to cut open hearts. Have a look at some of our photos.

The Aztecs

This month (February) we worked on the theme "The Aztecs". We learned a lot about them. We are doing projects about them this week which we will present to the class on Friday. The Aztecs were strange people as they believed the sun died at night time. They believed human sacrifices would get the sun to rise up again the next day. So they cut out peoples hearts as they believed the hearts and the blood would give nourishment to the sun. We made timelines and comic strips about the Aztecs.

In art we made Aztec Headdresses,

We also made Aztec Stone Calendars.

We also did projects on the Aztecs at the end of the month to show everything we learned