Today's Homework

Prepare for tomorrow
1. Daily Maths 1
2. Learn spellings

Prepare for handing in on Saturday
3. Choose the best way to present the information about the three babies.
You could make a poster, write some sentences, make a chart. You could do it in your topic book, you could use another piece of paper, you could print it from the computer. You could even do nothing and leave it as it is now but I think we know by now about making an effort to make things better.

Don't forget I want the pictures of young and old people in tomorrow as well.

The Morning After The Night Before

I hope everyone had a good time at the Cinema Night yesterday. By all accounts it went well. The Student Council will be meeting to talk about what to do with all the lovely money that was collected so we'll be waiting for Faisal to tell us about the wonderful things he'll be buying!

Today we had a very interesting visit from Max and Hannah, two babies from the creche. They came to the hall and we had a chance to ask Mrs White, their nanny, questions about what they do, what they can't do, what they eat and all sorts of other things. I think everyone thought that they were very cute and we also discovered a lot of specific information which fitted in with what we already knew. Next we'll need a much older person to talk to so if anyone has a spare grandparent hanging around, let us know!

Today's Homework

Hand in 1, 2 & 3 tomorrow
1. Daily Maths 3
It's the 3x table

2. Abacus SDM workbook p.106
Matching analogue and digital time

3. Haydn Richards p.14
Changing singular to plural and writing sentences using plurals

Bring these in any time this week
Find pictures of old people and babies
Use magazines, newspapers, posters. It doesn't have to be your family, but it can be.

Young And Old

We're starting our new unit of study now. It's called 'Young and Old' and in it, we'll be finding out about the differences between young people and old people: how we look, what we can do, what we wear, where we go. We'll also be looking at how things have changed around us since our grandparents were young, or perhaps even before! Do we play with the same toys? Is school still the same? I know mine was.

Thanks to everyone who has already brought photos and other objects in to show the class. I know everyone is very interested in learning about other families and I know they'll treat everything with respect and care. However, please do not send anything in to school if it is completely irreplaceable. Sometimes accidents do happen and things can get lost or damaged.

On the side you'll see a new list of websites connected to the things we'll be learning about over the next 8 weeks. Please take the time to look at them. Let me know what you think and if you find anything good yourself, let us know.

On the subject of websites, particularly related to this topic, please kids, be responsible when you are web-surfing. Let your parents know what you are looking at, sit with them and talk about the things you finding out. The internet is a great place to find out about lots of things but sometimes it shows us things we didn't want to see.

Coming Events

Two things for everyone to remember:

1. Tomorrow is Jeans for Genes Day. Please bring 5SR (or more!) which will go to this charity. You can then wear the clothes you choose, hopefully jeans. Remember what Mr Hugo said: no Crocs, no 'vest' type t-shirts with straps.
2. Tomorrow is the last day to give in your money for Cinema Night, if you want to go. It will be on Monday next week and the film is 'TMNT', which, my young friends tell me is 'Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles'. 15SR and the permission letter by tomorrow, please.

In commemoration of the day, I have changed the colour scheme for this website to a template called...Denim!

Today's Homework

Due in tomorrow:

1. Daily Maths 3
2. Topic - Put the 10 events from your book in order of importance. 1=Most Important, 10=Least Important. Then, write a paragraph explaining your reasons for choosing that order.

Due in on Saturday:

1. Find a picture of you as a baby. If possible, find pictures of your parents or grandparents when they were babies. Always ask for permission before bringing things to school.
   

Welcome Back!

Hello again everyone! I hope you all had a great holiday, as I did and you're ready to get on with lots more work, as I'm not! It sounds like not many people went away but lots went to the beach or had fun around Jeddah. It's good to see (almost) everyone back in class again.

We'll be finishing off our topic of 'Significant People' this week and moving on to our new topic of 'Young and Old', as I mentioned. If anyone has a picture of themselves as a baby, or any clothes that they used to wear when they were babies, please bring them in for our introduction. Just don't show anyone though. It's a secret!

Also, a reminder. This Wednesday is Jeans for Genes day and we'll all be asked to bring 5SR and wear something denim, if we can. It's all for a good cause and you can find out more about it here.

Happy Holidays

Well, we've come to the end of the first half term and I think we're all ready for a break now. We've been working hard and some really good research and presentations on our topic of Significant People has been done.

When we come back we'll be finishing off the last part of the first topic and getting ready to begin our next topic, which is all about us! It's called Young and Old and we'll be looking at how people as they get older and how places and things change over the years as well. So, if you come across anything in the holidays about you, when you were younger, about your parents or grandparents when they were little, about your city or country a long time ago or anything that you think would be interesting to show us, bring it back when we come back.

In the meantime, have a great break!

Student Council

Congratulations to...Faisal and Monika who were elected as Student Council member and Deputy this afternoon. They had both worked hard to prepare their thoughts before the presentations, they were both well-thought out and considered and they really deserved the votes of the class.

Well done to the rest of the class for putting themselves forward and voting for others. It's really refreshing to see so much enthusiasm for helping other people. I don't know if the Student Council will be able to cancel all homework, make Wednesday a free day or have parties every month as some people wanted but good luck to all of the Council members anyway.

Outdoor Ed 3

Here's a couple more photos from the Outdoor Ed day. I don't know if you can see them. I can't but that might be a problem with my computer. Leave a comment if you can't see them.

Student Council

As I mentioned on Saturday, each class needs to vote for one person to go on the Student Council. There could be many things that the Student Council do: helping decide the food for the cafe, deciding what the playground should look like, organising and choosing play equipment for the playground, deciding on reward systems for the school, meeting teachers to pass on student concerns and many other things. Even if we don't do all of those things, just being on the Student Council would be a great opportunity for you to get involved in how the school works.

Anyway, if you want to be on the Student Council you need to do a talk to the class, explaining why you think you should be on the Council. It doesn't have to be long talk; you could explain what you want to do, what the Student Council should do, why you would be best at helping people, listening to them or working with other people.

After the talks, we'll vote. If you're not in it, you can't win it!