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
   

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
   

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.

Today's Homework

1. Daily Maths 1 & 2
2. Spelling: Learn, collect, write
   
3. Abacus SDM p.42 q.1-9
4. Reading

Today's Homework

1. Daily Maths 5
2. Begin researching your questions about 'The Physical World' - presentation on May 11th!
   
3. Reading Log Activity
4. Abacus PCM p.97 & p.119
   
5. Reading - Make sure your reading record is signed!
   

Today's Homework

1. Daily Maths 3 & 4
2. Reading - including a question and getting the record signed
3. Times Tables square
   
4. Friction p.2 - Draw an idea map and write about the athletes

Vulcanology

You may have noticed that quite a few of the teachers and students are not in school at the moment. Some of them are stuck in Europe, unable to fly back because of the enormous volcanic eruption in Iceland! That's right, a volcano has exploded, sending a cloud of ash and dust miles into the sky and this cloud has spread across almost all of Europe. Although we can't really see this cloud, planes cannot fly through it because it can cause their engines to fail.

Here's a link to explain how volcanoes work.

Today's Homework

Welcome back to the start of the last term! Let's get straight back to work:

1. Daily Maths 1 & 2
2. Spelling sentences (don't write in the spaces, make a list underneath)
3. Find out what kinds of forces there are - we talked about gravity and friction; what else?
4. Reading - this includes getting your reading record signed and thinking of a question!