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.

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?

Mystery Question Answered & Reminders

Only Sulaiman had a go at answering the question but even he didn't get it all right. Britain is made up of England, Scotland and Wales, which Sulaiman got right. He thought Mr Belfield is from Scotland, which he didn't.

A couple of reminders for this week:

MONDAY; Book Fair, so bring a little bit of money if you want to buy a book. Apparently they cost only a small amount so 10 or 20 riyals should be enough.

TUESDAY; We're going to Y1 to give them their books. Obviously you need to finish your book before then. Get to work!

WEDNESDAY; Book Day Parade! You should have an idea of a costume by now. We'll look at some more pictures tomorrow for those who haven't given it any thought at all. You know who you are.

Mystery Question Answered!

Sulaiman and Adlan had the correct answer again this week. Mrs Kingham and Mr and Mrs Moore have taught in Thailand.

Mystery Question Answered! (Sort of)

There was a bit of controversy over the mystery question this week as it appears that Mrs Badr may have accidentally helped in finding the answer. So, although we did have two people with the correct answer, I'm not sure if they were entirely unassisted, which is the point of the thing after all.

Anyway, you could have said either Mrs Abdullah or Mrs Arabi, who both have blue eyes.

Mystery Question Answered!

A buckyball is a spherical shape made out of carbon atoms. It is named after Richard Buckminster Fuller, an architect who designed dome-shaped buildings with a futuristic appearance. A buckyball looks like one of his buildings. My grandmother lives near this one and so does Tiya's cousin, apparently.

Sulaiman, Adlan and Arouba were the deserving winners.

Mystery Question Answered!

There are many African languages, between 2000 and 3000 apparently. Some suggestions were Swahili and Zulu. The winner (again?) was Adlan with correct answers also coming from Adam and Sulaiman. Well done to everyone.

Mystery Question Answered!

The real Jack the Giant killer was a Cornishman who slew a terrible giant who had been plaguing the poor people of Cornwall for many years. The story is thought to be over a thousand years old and refers to some real places in Cornwall although whether it actually happened is debateable.

You can read more about the story, and tales of other giants Jack killed, by clicking here.

Mystery Question Answered!

Last week's question was about which was more; the height of the tallest mountain or the depth of the deepest ocean trench. The answer is...the ocean depth! In fact, the ocean is quite a lot deeper in some places than the tallest mountain is high. Some people say that our oceans are the last unexplored areas on Earth. Perhaps one day people will be able to go to the very bottom of the ocean as we can now go to the top of Mt Everest.

Anyway, congratulations to the winners. I told them who they were in class but now I've forgotten. I'm sure they were well rewarded though. :-)

Mystery Question Answered!

Last week's question was 'What is significant about Apollo 17?'

The answer is that Apollo 17 was the last American space mission which landed men on the moon. It happened in the 1970s and since then, nobody from any country has sent a manned mission to the moon. Perhaps by the time you are adults more people will have been.

Congratulations to those who got the right answer and a housepoint: Sulaiman, Deborah, Adlan and Adam.

Mystery Question Answered!

Congratulations to Sulaiman, Saleh, Deborah, Adam and Sofia who all answered the Mystery Question correctly. Here it is for those who missed it:

Io
Europa
Ganymede
Callisto

What are they?

Answer: they are all moons of Jupiter. In fact, they are the Galillean moons because they were named after Galileo.

One housepoint to all the winners. Two for Sulaiman who was the first to answer. Who will win this week?

Mystery Question

The answer to last week's question came in two parts: the next number in the sequence is 21. You find the next number by adding the two previous numbers together so 8 + 13 = 21. The sequence is named after, but was not discovered by, an Italian mathematician named Leonardo of Pisa, or Leonardo Fibonacci. He is said to have set himself the following puzzle: how many rabbits will you have after a year if you start with a male and female and the female has two babies every month?

Another important contribution Fibonacci was able to make was the idea of decimal numbers, the numbers we all use today, instead of the Roman numeral system which was in use in Europe in his lifetime. He knew of the decimal system because of his background in the Islamic countries of North Africa. So, the next time you do some maths in class, remember to thank Fibonacci as well as the Arab and Indian mathematicians who came before him. Without them we'd all be adding like this:

LXXXVII + MCMXC =MMDXXVII !!!

Mystery Object

This fearsome creature is the Minotaur, about to be killed by Theseus who found him in the centre of the labyrinth on Crete. The labyrinth was designed by Daedalus, father of Icarus, who was locked in a tower after finishing his design.

Congratulations to...Michael! I think he was the only one to get the answer correct so 1HP to him. Don't forget the question in the Primary Post. This week they were set by me so I'll be checking to see if anyone from our class answers them.

Mystery Question!

Did you guess correctly? Here are the details from the McDonald's website.

Product	Fat (g)
Big Mac	24
Quarter Pounder with Cheese	25
Large French Fries	23
KitKat McFlurry	16

So the fattiest meal is a Quarter Pounder with Cheese! Who guessed that one?

Mystery Object

Congratulations to Peter and...Michael! Yes, that's right. We have a new winner this week. Peter finally has some competition. Of course, that still leaves the other 19 people in the class who haven't guessed...

For those of you still in the dark, this little chap is Asterix, the famous French warrior who defended his little village from the invading Roman army. You will see many of his stories in the library. More information can be found here.

Mystery Object

Well done again Peter! You were the first to identify this person


as Sami al-Jaber, the Saudi footballer. It seems that many people in class knew who he was but only Peter came to tell me so Peter gets the house point.

Mystery Object

Well done to Peter! The first, in fact, the only person who found the right answer! This

is a solar flare. Look how enormous it is compared to the Earth! If that happened near us I think we'd get REALLY bad sunburn.

Congratulations Peter! One housepoint and the knowledge that you are the class brain is yours.

Mystery Object

Last week's mystery object was a map!



Actually, no it wasn't. We had been studying coordinates in maths and I gave you some coordinates for a map reference. They were the coordinates for...Jeddah. Pretty easy really but only one person got it right. Ahmed! So he gets the housepoint.

The Mystery Machine

How many of these do you remember? How many did you get right the first time round?

Mystery Object

The question last week was, 'Which famous fashion designer died recently?'

The answer was Yves Saint Laurent (YSL), who was most famous for designing the trouser suit for women at a time when women were never seen in trousers.

If you think about how often we see women and girls in trousers now, you can imagine how much fashion has changed since his invention.

The correct answers were provided by Thea, Mohammad, Rayan and Ahmed, in that order.