Tuesday 14 December 2010

How To Do Today's Homework

Just two questions today:
Which planets are solid?
Which planets are gas?

To answer the question, click on the words '0 replies' underneath this message. Type your answer in the box. Type the strange word that checks to see if you are human or spam. Click on 'Name/url' and type your name. Click on 'Publish comment'.

If your internet is not working, please get a note to say so.

Good luck!

Sunday 12 December 2010

You're A Star!


One of the things mentioned in the Oort Cloud work last week was a solar flare. Here's a picture that NASA took of the sun this week. You can see a huge solar flare in the bottom left corner. The flare was 700 000km long!

Saturday 11 December 2010

Playing Games






We went down to visit the YEs today, Mrs Jones' class in fact. We took the various board games we had made at the start of our Astronomy topic and the little kids seemed to really enjoy them. We did notice that they found it difficult to count up to 6, which made some of the games quite hard, and they were very shy to start off with but they almost all enjoyed themselves by the end of our visit and, as you can see, they were all smiling and happy by the end.

Tuesday 30 November 2010

Our Place In Space


Here's the video that we watched in class. It gives you a really good idea about the size of Earth and the Sun compared to some of the other things in space. We are really tiny!

Monday 29 November 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Daily Maths 2
  2. Comprehension: either Letts p.24-25 or Key Comprehension p.68-69
  3. Reading (including doing the Reading Activity for those who didn't do it on Saturday)

Saturday 27 November 2010

Today's Homework

Gosh, I was so busy chatting to people's parents that I almost didn't put the homework up! That would never do. Here it is:

  1. Spelling - write a sentence using a synonym, then write the meaning of the shape words
  2. Daily Maths 1
  3. Continue Scientist Research
  4. Reading Activity
  5. Abacus PCM p.17
Coming Soon...more photos!

Tuesday 23 November 2010

Today's Homework

1. Finish Abacus SDM p.30 – draw the shapes and add the diagonals. Use the spotted paper.

2. Abacus PCM p.112

3. Spelling – write sentences using 10 spelling words. Don't start with a name, don't start with the same word twice, each sentence must be at least 7 words long.

4.
Reading

Monday 22 November 2010

Today's Homework

1. Spelling - answer the crossword, choose 5 extra words, learn the words for Wednesday's test
2. Newspaper Worksheet q. 1-6
3. Find the name of a scientist connected to space discoveries

Tuesday 9 November 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Daily Maths 4
  2. Maths sheet
  3. Finish the title page of 'Astronomy'
  4. Answer the Jeddah question - Why did the population of Jeddah suddenly increase after 1945? Write the answer in your jotter.
  5. Bring a space object - Mrs Ward has 64!

Monday 8 November 2010

International Day ctd.

Here's some more photos from last week. Can you spot your face in the crowd?


Today's Homework

  • Daily Maths 1
  • Abacus PCM p.28
  • Spelling - learn the words, add five new ones, write the missing words from the sentences
  • Space paper - write the missing words in the gaps
  • Reading - don't forget to get your reading record signed

Saturday 6 November 2010

Today's Homework

1. Spelling homework - learn the words, find 5 new ones to add to the list, finish the wordsearch
2. Daily Maths 1
3. Bring an object connected to space - we're starting our topic on Astronomy and here's where we begin; try to find things with a name connected to space, that have a picture about space or that are used to learn about space. Be creative! There are lots of things out there. chocolate

Friday 5 November 2010

International Day

Well, what a lovely time we had. We walked around the school and saw all the other children (and a lot of parents). We sat under a giant wobbly blue sheet and listened to the choir and the cast of Grease. We came back to class and enjoyed the food from different parts of the world. We listened to Anmar play the guitar so that he could achieve one of his targets. And the best part of all was that we still had time for a spelling test! Enjoy the photos.



Tuesday 2 November 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Daily Maths 3
  2. Reading - we're getting our reading records signed more often now. Keep it up!
  3. Spelling - learn your spellings, choose 5 new words, write your sentences
Remember. I n t e r n a t i o n a l D a y ! Clothes! Food! Fun!

Monday 1 November 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Times table square - remember to record the time as well as how many you got correct.
  2. Abacus PCM p. 8 & 11
  3. Reading - your job is to ask your parents to sign the record. Their job is to sign it. Every day.
  4. Island Homework 3 - you are writing a play script about meeting the people from the island. You need to include the features of a play such as character names on the left, stage directions and a scene location. The ideas on the paper are just suggestions; you can write much more than that, at least 2 pages I think. Imagine what the island people might say. Why do they want to find you? Are they friendly? Do you speak their language? Where do you go with them?
Remember, it's International Day on Wednesday so you need to start thinking about what clothes to wear and what food to bring. You should try to wear something that is traditional and particular to your country, not just what everyone normally wears.

Saturday 30 October 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Daily Maths 1
  2. Spelling activity + learn spellings - make sure that you understand the rules about making plurals. The test could be on any common plural. Remember to find 5 more words to add as well.
  3. Island Homework 2 - choose 5 people from the list to help you survive on the island. Write two or three sentences for each person, explaining why you chose them. Also explain why you DIDN'T choose the other people.
  4. Get your Reading Record signed
  5. Bring the Parents' Evening letter back

Friday 29 October 2010

Jeans For Genes

Thanks very much to everyone for all of your generosity on Jeans for Genes day. We had a lot of fun wearing our own clothes and collected a lot of money for a very good cause as well. We watched a video in assembly and another one in class about the problems that Jeans for Genes Day helps with. Actually, we're not helping problems, we're helping children and families and we had a really good talk about our lives and our families.

As promised, here's a photo of all of our happy faces on Jeans for Genes day

and here's a link to the Jeans for Genes website. You can watch the videos that we were talking about here.

Monday 25 October 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Learn your spellings and do the spelling activity - give it in on Wednesday
  2. Finish your settlement plan - you need to colour it or somehow show the difference between houses, shops and other buildings
  3. Abacus PCM p. 7 & 103
  4. Times table square
  5. Reading

Sunday 24 October 2010

Nassief House

Here's a few photos from our Nassief House trip. We only saw 3 out of the 107 rooms but the parts we did see were very interesting. There was a beautiful light in the main room

and an Ericsson phone!

We sat on the roof and enjoyed the breeze


and even had time for a snack on the terrace outside.

Saturday 23 October 2010

Today's Homework

What an exciting day we've had! A lovely visit to Nassief House, seeing the oldest tree in Jeddah and one of the best preserved of the traditional Saudi houses and to top it all off, a dead rat in the street! What more could anyone ask for? There will be photos to follow but here's today's work:
  1. Daily Maths 4
  2. Finish your cartoon story, including colouring - you should be drawing a cartoon about being honest or what might happen if you aren't honest. It could be an event that really happened or something you have made up.
  3. Write the trip to Nassief House as a play - use the questions we asked (and the answers!) as the dialogue (that means the talking). You can make up extra talking if you want to. Remember to use stage directions and character names.

Tuesday 19 October 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Reading Activity 5 or 6
  2. Daily Maths 2
  3. Map worksheet
  4. Reading

Monday 18 October 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Daily Maths 3
  2. Times Table Square - remember to record the time it took you to do it
  3. Play Script Comprehension - Letts p. 8 or p.15 Only the Yellow box questions
  4. Finish Abacus SDM p.6
  5. Reading
Reminders!
You need to bring your trip money this week.
If you want to go to Cinema Night, Saturday is the last day to hand in your money.

Saturday 16 October 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Daily Maths 1
  2. Write 3 spelling words for each of the 'or' spellings - we did this in class this morning. There were 7 different ways of making the 'or' sound; write 3 examples for each word eg saw, sore, sauce etc
  3. Copy the spelling words into your handwriting book - don't forget the date and to write neatly!
  4. Write the missing words from the spelling sentences - don't write the sentences, don't write in the spaces, make a list
  5. Abacus PCM p.125 & 126
  6. Reading
Enjoy your evening!

Friday 15 October 2010

More News

One more little tidbit of information: we'll be choosing our Student Councillor and Deputy SC on Sunday. If you wish to be a candidate (ie if you want people to vote for you) then you need to get two nominations (two people who think you will be a good councillor) and hand them to me. The people nominating you have to write down a reason why you would be a good councillor. We will vote on all the candidates on Sunday before second break.

If you haven't paid for your lovely school hat yet, please bring the money As Soon As Possible.

Thursday 14 October 2010

New News

Just a couple of reminders of things to do or bring next week:

We are now on full Uniform Alert, starting Saturday. That is when you should be wearing all the correct uniform, as explained to you many times over the last three weeks, now including HATS! Bring your school hat or you'll be sitting on the No School Hat, No Play bench.

If you or your parents have any photos of Jeddah from before you were born (ie long ago), can I borrow them? I promise to return them quickly and in good condition :-) Anything showing people or places that have changed since then would be good. If you have the photos on a memory card, that's all good.

Tuesday 12 October 2010

Super Students ctd.

Ok, here's the latest update. We've got our first two groups of the week lined up, looking happy on the carpet. We've got our newest pen licence winners smiling nicely for the camera and, coming soon, we'll have this week's Super Student. Enjoy the photos!



Today's Homework

1. Home Country Research - fill in the settlement hierarchy for your own country ie the capital, a large town, a small town and a village. Answer the two questions: what is the population of your country? what is the population of the capital?
2. Finish off Abacus SDM p.59 - you need to roll the dice 40 times and make a bar-line graph of the results
3. Finish off the questions about Saudi Arabia - make sure that you write in full sentences

Remember! Bring the hat money in tomorrow!

Yesterday's Homework

Here it is, although I'm sure you've already done it.

1. Answer all the Text questions from p.8 or p.11 - Just the purple box questions about the play. Some people use page 8, some use p. 11
2. Reading Activity 4 or 5 - it depends which one you've already done.
3. Daily Maths 3

Saturday 9 October 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Daily Maths 4
  2. Abacus PCM p.27
  3. Spelling - complete the word search, write the missing words (but not in the spaces) and make sure you have changed the 10 'short vowel' words to the past tense.
  4. Reading

Tuesday 5 October 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Learn your spellings
  2. Abacus PCM - 3MM Groups E & F = p.24, 3MM Groups G & H = p.24 & p.25
  3. Finish your Home Town Project - practise what you want to say, try not to read too much from a paper, make sure you understand it and...good luck!
  4. Reading

Super Students!

Here's another couple of wonderful world of Y5-2. Sarah and Laila have taken up the gauntlet thrown down by Jayvee last week and have earned themselves a pen licence as well. Our first girls! There's more on the way, I'm sure so buck up everyone else! Don't dilly dally.


Yesterday's Homework!

Yes, I was busy getting ready for the Open House yesterday so I didn't get around to putting the homework on here. Sorry about that but thanks very much to all the parents who came to find out about school and Y5. We had a very 'interesting' conversation...mwah ha ha ha!

1. Daily Maths 3
2. Reading Activity 3
3. Finish your 3 targets, type them, bring them on a flash drive. You started writing them in your jotter. Finish writing them, they type them. Remember that they need to be S.M.A.R.T.
4. Continue with Hometown Project.

Saturday 2 October 2010

Today's Homework

Another week, another list! Here we go again:

  1. Daily Maths 4
  2. Abacus PCM p. 101 - it's changing from km to m and more along the same lines. Think about multiplying and dividing. How many places do you need to move the number?
  3. Spelling Activity - remember, never ever, never, never, ever write the word in the spaces!
  4. Continue with the Home Town project - the due date is Wednesday, 6th October!
Coming soon, more Pen Licence winners!

Wednesday 29 September 2010

A Rising Star of Y5-2


Here's someone who's done really well this week; it's Jayvee, sitting proudly at the teacher's desk because he was the first person in our class to get their Y5 pen licence. He tried really hard with his handwriting example and he has been working neatly in his other books as well. I wonder who will be the next to join him!

Tuesday 28 September 2010

Today's Homework

Today's Homework is...

  1. Daily Maths 3
  2. Learn your spellings
  3. Reading Activity 2 - if you have Laura's Reading Log (it says Laura at the top) you can give me your activity on Saturday
  4. Continue with Home Town project.

Monday 27 September 2010

Today's Homework

Ok, middle of the week time again. Here's what to do today:

  1. Daily Maths 2 - ONLY Daily Maths 2, not all of them! Remember the date and title.
  2. Write the spelling word and the meaning next to it. This is a handwriting task as well so try your best to join your letters and make them a regular size. Let's see who can get the next pen licence!
  3. Continue on your Home Town project.

Saturday 25 September 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Daily Maths 1 (in your Maths Homework book)
  2. Reading Activity 1 (stick the sheet in your Reading Activity book)
  3. Learn your spellings and match the meanings (in your spelling book)
  4. Abacus PCM p.2
All your homework is due in the next day, unless I say otherwise. Don't forget to get your homework diary signed!

Well done to Jean and Dino, who were the only people to answer the Mystery Question. I know I said that it wasn't the real question but they made an effort anyway so 1hp to them. Have you tried the new one?

Tuesday 21 September 2010

Today's Homework

Another day, another piece of homework. Yesterday's was fairly good. We had SOME lovely, colourful name cards which Mrs Badr has already stuck onto the trays. There are a few people who have 'forgotten' and who promise to bring it in tomorrow. Let's see if they do.

Here's today's work:
  1. Finish your Settlements table; you know, the list of 6 buildings in each settlement, City, Town and Village.
  2. Practice your 4x and 7x table. Anmar had a great idea of having a test to check who knows their tables so we'll do that tomorrow.
Happy Saudi National Day for Thursday!

Monday 20 September 2010

Today's Homework

Here it is. What you've all been waiting for; the first homework of the year!
  1. Finish your name card - as colourful and individual as you can make it. You're going to be looking at it all year; you'll be happier if you are looking at something nice.
  2. Complete your 'Year 5 Passport' paper - it's a little 'getting to know you' exercise for us all.
  3. Keep working on your 'Home Town' project. This will be hard for some people because they haven't done ANY work on it yet. If you haven't started, ask your mum and dad where the paper is that tells you about the project. Start working now!
The best news has been saved till last; we have our first mystery question answer! Well done Jean!

Saturday 18 September 2010

1 Day Down, 39 To Go

Wow! What a day!! We had 18 out of 21 kids in today, all brimming with energy and raring to get to work at the beginning of another wonderful year. We talked about all of our expectations for Year 5, gave out LOADS of uniform slips, learned about how Mr Ward wants his maths books to appear and even had time for our first bit of homework. What a busy day!

Let's see if we're all here tomorrow and if we can all remember each others' names!

Tuesday 14 September 2010

New Beginnings

Welcome back to school again! The countdown has begun and I'm sure we're all full of energy and ready to start on Saturday. I know you've all got your uniform ready, your pencils are sharpened and your shoes are polished. Anway, the teachers are all busy brightening up the classrooms and sorting out all the things you'll be doing in the first week. See you soon!

Friday 2 July 2010

Today's Homework

Well, it says today but it should be Wednesday's. Anyway...

  1. Daily Maths 5
  2. Finish off your draft letter to Magrabi (should be almost finished)
  3. Bring in a fruit with seeds. Bonus pat on the back for bringing in the biggest seed or the most unusual fruit.
Almost at the end of Y5 now. I expect most of the class will be on holiday already (hint, hint). This week we'll try to finish off our magnetic games (some photos of finished games below), painting our faces - the clay ones that is - and doing lots and lots of work.

But! Because it's Friday, have a Ninja Cat.


Monday 28 June 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Plants research
  2. Abacus PCM p. 86
  3. Daily Maths 3 & 4

Sunday 27 June 2010

Do My Eyes Deceive Me Ctd.

Here's another interesting video about optical illusions that I came across. It won a prize for the best illusion in the world, apparently. According to the description, magnets might be involved. See if you can work out what is happening.

Flower Power

We had a little walk around the school today to observe the wondrous beauty of nature. Then we brought some back to class and pulled it to pieces.

Actually we were studying flowers as part of our work on plants. We were trying to identify the different parts of the flower and noting the differences between one plant and another. All part of the miraculous world around us that we are often too busy to even notice. As the saying goes, when you travel along the path of life, take time to stop and smell the flowers.

Flower Opening Time Lapse from John Blakney on Vimeo.

Saturday 26 June 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Daily Maths 2
  2. Spelling sentences
  3. Science paper
  4. Finish the story
  5. Reading

Friday 25 June 2010

Today's Homework

Just the one today:

  1. Use the picture 'The Scream' as the starting point of a story. Imagine that you are one of the people in the picture. What happened that day? What were you feeling? Were you one of the friends in the background or were you the person at the front? What did you see or hear? How did you help? What happened after the scream?

Monday 21 June 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Daily Maths 3
  2. Maths 100 square
  3. Science paper
  4. Spelling paper - make words, colour picture - give in on Wednesday
  5. Reading

Saturday 19 June 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Daily Maths 2
  2. Abacus PCM p. 73 & 74
  3. Finish the Cryptogram, write the meaning of 5 spelling words & add 5 to your list
  4. Reading
  5. Remember your pictures or music - 1 of each or 2 of one of them
So far only one person has left a message with a link to their favourite song. I hope everyone else has got theirs ready!

Only one answer to the mystery question last week; how many times has the World Cup been held outside Europe. Sulaiman was first (and last) with the correct answer so 1hp to him.

Wednesday 16 June 2010

Today's Homework

No picture of our winner, Engineer Wael El Taher. I forgot to bring my camera to school! Instead, have some homework:

  1. Science Worksheets - finish the Electricity and Light pages - ie p.138-141 & p.146-149. We've done some in class (most of us) so it won't be as much as it seems.
  2. Bring a piece of music or a picture to school on Saturday. You should choose one that makes you feel happy and one that makes you feel sad. You can bring 2 songs or 2 pictures or 1 of each if you like. If you don't have a cd or iPod, send me a message with the name of the song and the singer and I can probably find it on YouTube.

Tuesday 15 June 2010

We Are Golden

Here's a few of our latest wonderkids:




One more to come tomorrow and we might even be able to get one of the best group.

Monday 14 June 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Reading Diary - you can use any fiction book you choose. It does not have to be your reading group book. Try to answer the questions from the diary.
  2. Persuasive letters & Advertising - Letts p70-71 Text & Sentence questions; Mrs Kingham & Mrs Ralston's group Letts p.80-81 Text questions; Ismail - two pages from your English workbook.
  3. Please try to bring in any boxes or tubes that you might want to make your game or camera. If you bring nothing, you make nothing.

Fun & Games

We've been trying to have fun and make games at school today. Of course, every day is fun in Mr Ward's class but this time it's educational! We started off trying to make a game which uses magnets or electricity. We had some very complex and impressive ideas which were quite hard to create but some of decided that simple ideas often work best so we stuck to a fishing game like this one.


Later this week we'll be making a camera using cardboard tubes. How exciting! If you want to have a go at home, here are some simple instructions to show you how. You may need an adult to help with a little bit of it.

Saturday 12 June 2010

Today's Homework

Back to normal today. No more Outdoor Ed, no more non-uniform day. We even managed to get everyone to school. Eventually. So, now that we're all back together again, here's the homework!

  1. Abacus PCM p. 67 +68
  2. Persuasive writing paper: You have 10 comments by people who are for and against school uniform. In other words they think that school uniform is either a good thing or a bad thing. You need to cut up the 10 parts and stick them into two groups so that all of the statements in favour of school uniform are together and all those which are against it are together. Stick the pieces in your blue English homework book.
  3. Bring cardboard tubes and boxes to help make a camera and magnetic game.

Wednesday 9 June 2010

Today's Homework

Ah, lovely homework. How we have missed you when we were doing Outdoor Ed.
  1. Science Booklet p.140, 141, 143, 145 - That makes 4 pages altogether
  2. Bring a cardboard box eg a cereal or tissue box and two cardboard tubes eg Pringles or kitchen roll tubes - we need them to make things next week

Tuesday 8 June 2010

Wednesday Warnings

As I said when we got back from Outdoor Ed today, there are a couple of things to remember for tomorrow:
  1. Non-uniform Day - bring 10SR if you want to wear your own clothes
  2. Movie Night - it starts at 7.30; the movie is 'How To Train Your Dragon' and the cost is 15SR. You'll need a note from your parents if you want to go to this. They should have received an email from the school telling them about it.
I hope you enjoyed Outdoor Ed. The barbecue was great, especially the fish! Back to work tomorrow :-)

Monday 31 May 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Spelling - Learn the new words, decode the anagrams, add 5 new words to the list, make 5 new anagrams from old spelling words
  2. Reading Diary - remember to answer the questions
  3. Electric Safety paper - colour the dangerous parts red and explain why they are dangerous
  4. Finish your research and presentation - you are telling us about it on WEDNESDAY!
Green = give it in on Wednesday

Saturday 29 May 2010

Welcome Back

Hello again everyone. I hope you enjoyed our most recent half-term. It may not have seemed very long but don't forget, it was 86400 seconds, which sounds a lot longer than than 1 day or 0.27% of a year. In case you don't know what I'm talking about, we'll be studying units of time this week in maths and those are three ways of writing 24 hours.

Now as we've missed Saturday, we won't be having a library lesson this week. If any of you want to bring your library books on Sunday (or any other day) I'm sure Mrs Schermer will be happy to take them. We won't be having a library lesson next week either as it's our OUTDOOR ED time! Yay!

One final thing; here's the video about the eye that we watched on Wednesday. Feel free to have another look, just in case I give you a test or something. :-)

Wednesday 26 May 2010

Do My Eyes Deceive Me?

Coming Soon: the latest Golden Book AWard winners.

However, here's something else first. We are about to study a little about how the eye works, how we 'see' the world around us and what part light plays in this process. In my endless search for new and interesting study material, I came across this video. I thought that the tricks that the makers played using only light were amazing. Only the buildings and people are real; nothing that appears on the building is really there. Or is it?

Projection on Buildings from NuFormer Projection on Vimeo.

Monday 24 May 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Daily Maths 3 & 4
  2. Science paper + finish circuit diagrams
  3. Abacus PCM p.70

Saturday 22 May 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Daily Maths 1 & 2
  2. Reading Diary
  3. Spelling - wordsearch + write 5 words
  4. Reading

Thursday 20 May 2010

Have A Wonderful Day

Here's a beautiful video I found which I thought I'd share. Mukhtar is a bus driver in Denmark. One day his passengers and friends decided to surprise him. It was his birthday.

Wednesday 19 May 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Daily Maths 5
  2. Research International Aid Agencies - give in presentation on Wednesday, 2nd June
  3. Reading - get your record signed

Monday 17 May 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Abacus PCM p.123
  2. Calculating Angles p.1
  3. Spelling sentences - write the whole sentence NEATLY!
  4. Continue preparing Theme Park advertisement

Saturday 15 May 2010

Saturday Round Up

Here are a couple of the links I showed you in class. Have a look at what each theme park is advertising to get an idea of the kind of words they use and how they make their rides sound exciting.

Remember, you need to give in your advertisement on Wednesday!

Drayton Manor - this is the one that the Ward family visit in the summer holidays

Thorpe Park - I used to go there when I was little and the best ride was a bike with wobbly wheels. It's changed a bit.

Alton Towers - the most famous theme park in Britain. I went there once and queued for 90 minutes in the rain for a 45 second ride. Never again.

The winners of the mystery question last week were Adlan and Sulaiman again. Doesn't anyone else want housepoints?

Today's Homework

  1. Daily Maths 1 & 2
  2. Times table square
  3. Reading Log
  4. Sources for Forces - Write down the source(s) you used for your forces research.
  5. If you have a magnetic game at home, find out if you can bring it to school.

Wednesday 12 May 2010

Today's Homework

1. Daily Maths 3 & 4
2. Science paper - Remember, you need to draw an arrow AND write a sentence!
3. Lunar Maths 5 - Design and make an advertisement for your Lunar Theme Park. You can make a video, make a brochure with Publisher or record your voice. We will plan this on Saturday but you can start thinking of ideas now.
4. Reading

Tuesday 11 May 2010

Group of the Week

Here are a few of our recent winners. We have Sofia, the Golden Book winner from last week and the last two winners of Best Table! You might notice that the same person is in both winning groups. I wonder if she is the reason they won?


Something To Think About When Planning Your Next Presentation

Life After Death PowerPoint from EMT Media on Vimeo.

Monday 10 May 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Prepare presentation - you've had 3 weeks to get it ready. Tomorrow is the day! Make sure you have practiced speaking confidently and clearly. Make sure that you can speak without looking at a paper the whole time. Good luck!
  2. Abacus PCM Green Spot p.62 + 64, Blue Spot p.61 + 63 - No spot = you choose. You must do 2 pages!
  3. Reading

Sunday 9 May 2010

Notre visite au Café Français

Aujourd'hui était jour international de nourriture! Nous sommes allés visiter le café français dans l'école aînée. Il y avait beaucoup d'étudiants nous servant et nous avons mangé des croissants et du pain au chocolat et avons bu du chocolat chaud. Nous tout apprécié notre temps là et avons même eu la chance de parler français!


Thursday 6 May 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Continue research on forces - presentation on Tuesday
  2. Reading
  3. Lunar Theme Park 4 - you need to use the profit numbers from section 3, add on the money you get from cafes and shops, find the total and then subtract the costs of electricity and staff. You need to do this for all 30 days. Good luck!

Monday 3 May 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Lunar Theme Park 1, 2 & 3 - finish your design (including colouring) and work out your costs and income
  2. Abacus PCM p.122 - you need a protractor
  3. Reading Log - Choose 1 activity
  4. Reading - don't forget your book report if it is your turn

Sunday 2 May 2010

Bouncing Balls

As we've been bouncing balls lately as part of our science work, I thought you might appreciate this lovely little video of music created by the bouncing of different objects.

Gravité from Renaud Hallée on Vimeo.

Saturday 1 May 2010

Joint Construction

We had a lot of fun building fairground rides out of Knex last week. It's a bit like Lego but not as easy to work with. For some reason, the girls were much better at building than the boys! I think we should start thinking about engineering careers ladies.

Here's a few photos of the successful, and not so successful models.




Today's Homework

  1. Daily Maths 1 & 3
  2. Science worksheet
  3. Spelling worksheet - inc. learn spelling
  4. Reading

Monday 26 April 2010

Today's Homework

  1. Daily Maths 3 & 4
  2. Finish your Fairground recount/Friction p.2 for Khaled
  3. Abacus PCM p.121
  4. Prepare an oral book report

Saturday 24 April 2010

Random Reprobates

It has been brought to my attention that I have been rather remiss in updating the Golden Book pictures. We didn't have one last week and we were on holiday for the previous two weeks but here are a collection of recent winners for your delectation.