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.

Today's Homework

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

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.

Today's Homework

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

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?
   

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
   

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.

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.
   

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.

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.

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.
   

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
   

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 :-)

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