How To Do Today's Homework

Just two questions today:
Which planets are solid?
Which planets are gas?

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You're A Star!

One of the things mentioned in the Oort Cloud work last week was a solar flare. Here's a picture that NASA took of the sun this week. You can see a huge solar flare in the bottom left corner. The flare was 700 000km long!

Playing Games

We went down to visit the YEs today, Mrs Jones' class in fact. We took the various board games we had made at the start of our Astronomy topic and the little kids seemed to really enjoy them. We did notice that they found it difficult to count up to 6, which made some of the games quite hard, and they were very shy to start off with but they almost all enjoyed themselves by the end of our visit and, as you can see, they were all smiling and happy by the end.

Our Place In Space

Here's the video that we watched in class. It gives you a really good idea about the size of Earth and the Sun compared to some of the other things in space. We are really tiny!

Today's Homework

1. Daily Maths 2
2. Comprehension: either Letts p.24-25 or Key Comprehension p.68-69
3. Reading (including doing the Reading Activity for those who didn't do it on Saturday)

Today's Homework

Gosh, I was so busy chatting to people's parents that I almost didn't put the homework up! That would never do. Here it is:

1. Spelling - write a sentence using a synonym, then write the meaning of the shape words
2. Daily Maths 1
3. Continue Scientist Research
4. Reading Activity
5. Abacus PCM p.17

Coming Soon...more photos!

Today's Homework

1. Finish Abacus SDM p.30 – draw the shapes and add the diagonals. Use the spotted paper.

2. Abacus PCM p.112

3. Spelling – write sentences using 10 spelling words. Don't start with a name, don't start with the same word twice, each sentence must be at least 7 words long.

4. Reading

Today's Homework

1. Spelling - answer the crossword, choose 5 extra words, learn the words for Wednesday's test
2. Newspaper Worksheet q. 1-6
3. Find the name of a scientist connected to space discoveries

Today's Homework

1. Daily Maths 4
2. Maths sheet
3. Finish the title page of 'Astronomy'
4. Answer the Jeddah question - Why did the population of Jeddah suddenly increase after 1945? Write the answer in your jotter.
5. Bring a space object - Mrs Ward has 64!
   

International Day ctd.

Here's some more photos from last week. Can you spot your face in the crowd?

Today's Homework

• Daily Maths 1
• Abacus PCM p.28
• Spelling - learn the words, add five new ones, write the missing words from the sentences
• Space paper - write the missing words in the gaps
• Reading - don't forget to get your reading record signed

Today's Homework

1. Spelling homework - learn the words, find 5 new ones to add to the list, finish the wordsearch
2. Daily Maths 1
3. Bring an object connected to space - we're starting our topic on Astronomy and here's where we begin; try to find things with a name connected to space, that have a picture about space or that are used to learn about space. Be creative! There are lots of things out there. chocolate

International Day

Well, what a lovely time we had. We walked around the school and saw all the other children (and a lot of parents). We sat under a giant wobbly blue sheet and listened to the choir and the cast of Grease. We came back to class and enjoyed the food from different parts of the world. We listened to Anmar play the guitar so that he could achieve one of his targets. And the best part of all was that we still had time for a spelling test! Enjoy the photos.

Today's Homework

1. Daily Maths 3
2. Reading - we're getting our reading records signed more often now. Keep it up!
3. Spelling - learn your spellings, choose 5 new words, write your sentences

Remember. I n t e r n a t i o n a l D a y ! Clothes! Food! Fun!

Today's Homework

1. Times table square - remember to record the time as well as how many you got correct.
   
2. Abacus PCM p. 8 & 11
3. Reading - your job is to ask your parents to sign the record. Their job is to sign it. Every day.
   
4. Island Homework 3 - you are writing a play script about meeting the people from the island. You need to include the features of a play such as character names on the left, stage directions and a scene location. The ideas on the paper are just suggestions; you can write much more than that, at least 2 pages I think. Imagine what the island people might say. Why do they want to find you? Are they friendly? Do you speak their language? Where do you go with them?

Remember, it's International Day on Wednesday so you need to start thinking about what clothes to wear and what food to bring. You should try to wear something that is traditional and particular to your country, not just what everyone normally wears.

Today's Homework

1. Daily Maths 1
2. Spelling activity + learn spellings - make sure that you understand the rules about making plurals. The test could be on any common plural. Remember to find 5 more words to add as well.
   
3. Island Homework 2 - choose 5 people from the list to help you survive on the island. Write two or three sentences for each person, explaining why you chose them. Also explain why you DIDN'T choose the other people.
   
4. Get your Reading Record signed
5. Bring the Parents' Evening letter back

Jeans For Genes

Thanks very much to everyone for all of your generosity on Jeans for Genes day. We had a lot of fun wearing our own clothes and collected a lot of money for a very good cause as well. We watched a video in assembly and another one in class about the problems that Jeans for Genes Day helps with. Actually, we're not helping problems, we're helping children and families and we had a really good talk about our lives and our families.

As promised, here's a photo of all of our happy faces on Jeans for Genes day

and here's a link to the Jeans for Genes website. You can watch the videos that we were talking about here.

Today's Homework

1. Learn your spellings and do the spelling activity - give it in on Wednesday
2. Finish your settlement plan - you need to colour it or somehow show the difference between houses, shops and other buildings
3. Abacus PCM p. 7 & 103
4. Times table square
5. Reading

Nassief House

Here's a few photos from our Nassief House trip. We only saw 3 out of the 107 rooms but the parts we did see were very interesting. There was a beautiful light in the main room

and an Ericsson phone!

We sat on the roof and enjoyed the breeze

and even had time for a snack on the terrace outside.

Today's Homework

What an exciting day we've had! A lovely visit to Nassief House, seeing the oldest tree in Jeddah and one of the best preserved of the traditional Saudi houses and to top it all off, a dead rat in the street! What more could anyone ask for? There will be photos to follow but here's today's work:

1. Daily Maths 4
2. Finish your cartoon story, including colouring - you should be drawing a cartoon about being honest or what might happen if you aren't honest. It could be an event that really happened or something you have made up.
3. Write the trip to Nassief House as a play - use the questions we asked (and the answers!) as the dialogue (that means the talking). You can make up extra talking if you want to. Remember to use stage directions and character names.