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

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. :-)

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.

Today's Homework

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

Today's Homework

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

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.

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

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 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.
   

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

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.

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
   

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!

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!
   

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
   

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.

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