It has been such an interesting week this week. We have been continuing our work on camouflage and I have learned many new things myself. The children tried to answer the questions they had thought of about camouflage and for a great number of them, this included looking at how humans use camouflage. We found out that the word comes from the French ‘Camofleurs’, who, during World War I, developed the idea of camouflage as a way of disguising or hiding military buildings and equipment.

 

We also found out that there was a book written in 1890, by Sir Edward Poulton (a British zoologist) called ‘The Colours of Animals’, which was one of the first books to describe camouflage. We watched an amazing video that taught us more about how some animals camouflage; see if you can spot the animal when you first watch the video:

 

There were some great discussions and excellent work produced in our Mind Maps this week. Ruby (year 5) told us that it was much easier to ‘see’ camouflage if you were colour blind, this led to lots of interesting discussions. Max (year 2) wondered if animals changed colour because of their blood, which was a great question that we enjoyed finding out about.

 

The stars of the week this week were: John (year 6); Emily (year 2); Suzanna (year 3) and Ashley (year 4) - well done all of you for great work.  

 

Time for this week’s challenge. As we have been thinking about camouflage and hiding this week, I thought that we could have a ‘hidden number’ challenge for you.   

 

Infant Challenge:

 

Using the numbers 1-9 only once, make each row, column and diagonal add up to the same magic total.

 

 

8

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

7

 

 

 

 

 

Junior Challenge:

Write a number in each empty square, to make all the equations true.

 

 

 

 

20

 

+

4

=

 

 

-

 

 

-

 

-

 

 

 

+

2

=

 

 

 

 

 

=

 

=

 

17

 

+

 

=

 
 

 

Good luck and enjoy!