Today's Homework

1. Daily Maths 4
2. Learn your spellings - as usual, you need to look through your topic book to find 3 words that you have spelled wrongly.
3. Abacus workbook p.17
   

Today's Homework

1. Daily Maths 3
2. Bring 1 empty food packet to school - we're looking for information about nutrition, ingredients and we'll be talking about how food helps us to stay healthy.
3. Write one paragraph about your toy - concentrate on capital letters and spelling but also think about adding adjectives. I would like it to be descriptive. Think about the questions we talked about in class.
   

Today's Homework

1. Daily Maths 4
2. Diet Trials - beginning tomorrow

Everyone has a chart in their topic book. Starting tomorrow, I would like everyone to keep a record of all the things that they have been eating for breakfast, lunch and dinner, not forgetting all of the snacks that you have. On Sunday we'll be able to see what sort of food people have and we can start talking about what we need to be healthy, what the food is doing to our body and so on.

Click here for more information about food.

Today's Homework

1. Daily Maths 3
2. Bring 2 pictures

i) an old person
ii) a hard activity eg skiing, wrestling, hockey, snowboarding, running, skateboarding

We have been talking about old people this week. What they can do, what they can't do and what people think of them. We noticed that we don't expect old people to do very much; just sit in their chair, sleep, rest, wobble slowly around, fall over and that sort of thing. We didn't even think they looked nice; wrinkly skin, white hair, no teeth. One person even said that they were hideous!

So, I thought it would be a good idea if we could mix up some pictures and put an old person in a place we wouldn't expect to find them; on a football field, skiing down a mountain, wrestling John Cena and that sort of thing. We can get a picture of an old person, cut out their head or body and stick them into the other picture. What fun!

Today's Homework

1. Daily Maths 1
2. Abacus workbook p.14+15
3. Learn your spellings
   

Finishing Off, for the parents as well

First of all, let me say 'Well done!' to Mohammed and Anastasia. They were the only ones who found the answers to the bonus question from yesterday's homework. I know it was up to you whether to do it but it does show a high level of effort and enthusiasm from those two. Congratulations both and it's four class points for Anastasia and 9 (!) for Mohammed. The answers are below. Click on their names to find out more.

On a second point, one mum was telling me that she wishes that we still had Daily Maths every day. I'm not sure if the kids would agree but it did get me thinking. If you want to do all 5 of the Daily Maths tasks, you are quite free to do so. Just remember to do the assigned homework first and try not to give the kids too much to do. I will give Daily Maths 1 on Saturday, 3 on Monday and 4 on Tuesday so you can do 2 and 5 on Sunday and Wednesday if you want to.

Lastly, only 2 parents in all of the Middle School got the Maths Quiz right this week! Mr Hugo worked out that you could get 360 housepoints for your kid's team if everyone sent in the right answer. So come on kids, come on parents! Have a go at the Maths Quiz from Jeddah Journal this weekend and we'll see how many more points we get next week.

Famous People & Their Jobs

1. Orlando Bloom - actor
2. George W. Bush - President of the U.S.A.
3. Tina Turner - singer
4. 50 Cent - rapper
5. Hilary Clinton - American Senator
6. Judi Dench - actor
7. Sean Connery - actor
8. Nelson Mandela - ex-President of South Africa
9. Mick Jagger - singer
10. Madonna - singer
11. Oprah Winfrey - talk show host
    
12. Saddam Hussein - ex-President of Iraq
13. David Beckham - footballer
14. Lindsay Lohan - actor/singer
15. Daniel Radcliffe - actor
16. Miley Cyrus - actor

I have to admit, I didn't know who some of them were. The kids did quite well at putting them in order of age. Can you do it?

Today's Homework

As we had two extra ICT lessons today there is only

1. Daily Maths 1

Just for a bonus question

• Do you know what jobs any of the famous people do? There were 16 of them, I think.

Write the answers on a piece of paper and bring it in.

Today's Homework

All to be handed in tomorrow:

1. Daily Maths 4
2. Times table 100 square (don't spend more than 15 minutes on this)
3. Finish the chart on body changes that we were doing in Topic
   

Drawing Faces

Thanks for the drawings of people that everyone has done for homework. It's hard, isn't it?! But, if you take your time and remember the general proportions (how everything looks compared to other parts of the body) it will get easier.



Anyway, I've found an interesting website which has a video about how to draw faces. I'll try to show it to the class but it's easier for you to watch it at home, rather than trying to squeeze 20 people around one small screen. If you'd like to have a look, just click here.

Student Council

Well, our student councillor, Faisal, has had his first meeting and has given some feedback to the rest of the class on what was discussed. He will be having another meeting next Sunday when the Council will be talking about the cafeteria and the students' opinions of it. So, if you have anything you'd like us to pass on to the Student Council about the cafe, leave a comment or send in some ideas and we'll make sure that the Council gets to hear about it.

Some things to think about:

• If you don't use the cafe, why not?
• What changes have you noticed to the cafe this year?
• What sort of food does the cafe sell?
• What would you like it to sell?
• How much do you think a child's meal should cost?

We'll let you know when the Council get back to us with their conclusions.

Today's Homework

All homework to be handed in tomorrow.

1. Learn spellings
2. Daily Maths 2
3. Topic - use the sketching we did today and last week to draw a sketch of a moving figure. Remember to begin with the 6 ovals at the side to give you an idea of how large the body should be altogether.

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.