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!
   

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.

Today's Homework

1. Daily Maths 1 & 2
   
2. Spelling sentences
3. Reading
4. Start thinking about a costume for Book Day on 31st March. It must be a character from a myth or legend.
   

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.

Today's Homework

1. Daily Maths 3 & 5
2. Abacus PCM p.53
3. Reading
4. Letts p.38-39 OR
5. Letts p.78-79 OR
6. Comprehension Plus p.12-13
   

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.

Today's Homework

1. Daily maths 1 & 2
2. Prepare a PowerPoint presentation for Saturday about a myth – you are not allowed to have any writing on the presentation and you cannot read from a paper – Memorise!
3. Letts p.36-37 Text & Sentence only OR Haydn Richards p.90 - do this in your ITU book

Group of the Week

It was Group 3 again a couple of weeks ago but I've only just got around to putting their photo up. Here they are.