Camp

Please don't forget that all children need to bring a plain white T shirt to Dye(paint on).
My phone number is665286708. I will only be accepting text messages in case of emergency. Children can take mobels which must be labelled with their name. These will be given to them for a while in the evening. No electronic games allowed. Children may bring cameras but they are totally responsible for them. They don't need any money at all as they will not go near any shops. Come in shorts and T shirt tomorrow withh good walking shoes. A hat and suntan protector is ESSENTIAL.

leaver's assembly

Fifth grades graduation(leaver assembly) is on June 29th at 11:30 in the morning. All `parents are invited.
Please remember to send camp forms back by tomorrow.

Extra homework due to bad behaviour in class

All children have to draw a key with pictures of 10 animals or plants to be separated out witha branching key for homework tonight in science books for tomorrow.

Spellings

Fertilizers, nutrients, producer, prey, predator, fertilization,pollination, consumer,habitat,herbivore, carnivore,camouflage, adaptation,interdependence. The children will need to know the meaning of these words for their science test on Friday.Do ten sentences and learn spellings.

Camp

Camp letters sent out today-monday must be filled in and sent back as soon as possible -Thankyou

Homework

Wednesday-Choose a mammal, a plant and a bird from the rainforest find a picture or photo of them.Find out what verbs adjectives and adverbs you could use to describe them.Bring this information to school on Friday.

Photos

Please don't forget your photos to be scanned for the leavers assembly or your money for Palmitas Park (please try to give me the correct amount).

Homework and spellings this week

difference, confidence, reference, acquantance, nuisance, influence,library, factory, discovery, military,diary, robbery,machinery,jewellery, attendance-spellings to learn this week.
10 in spelling books not paper for Monday.
We have started our new science topic adaptation and interdependence here are some sites to help you.http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/science/science2e.htm

homework

Please do the crossword for homework for Monday to revise for exam.

Science homework

Rainforest Debate

Some children still need to finish or change or add to their speeches. Those speaking need to learn the speeches off by heart

spellings

Spellings this week are: simple, purposes, enemies, instruments, tribal, significant, dimensions, function, typically, tourists, competition, easiest, correctly, vertical, swoops, adjustment,breeze, precision, clapping, attempt.
Tuesday homework- please write 10 sentences using these words.

cake stall for canary day

If any of you are super bakers( or even just learning) Cakes are needed and would be gratefully recieved for the cake stall on Canary day. Bring them to school on Friday morning please!

Music

Pleases don't forget to bring your recorders tomorrow

Canary day

Don't forget it's Canary day on Friday. Please remember to bring one or two euros for your tickets. You should wear Canary costume and come prepared to have fun. Make sure your parents look at the web page where there are details of all the end of term events and dates.
No homework this week due to the stress we have all been under with the SATS but if you could bring in a couple of balloons for our science experiment it would be great!

SATS

The fifth grade children will start their SATS tomorrow. Please do not worry! Just do your best.These exams are to help us as a school find out how we can improve and how we can help you. They are not something that should make you worry. Do your best and keep calm.
Tomorrow we will have the reading comprehension ,spelling and short writing test so bring a blue pen or two that you can do your best writing with.You cannot use tipex so neatly cross out any mistakes you make with one line using a ruler.
Next week all children MUST bring a 30cm ruler ;two sharp pencils(HB), A protractor, A calculator, a rubber.
Homework please have a look tonight at primary resources to revise the features of different types of writing
maths revision homework is for Monday

homework

Do maths sheets for tomorrow

homework

Tuesday go onto BBC bitewise and revise numeracy concepts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/
Practise spelling athttp://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/spelling_grammar/spelling/play.shtml

Spellings homework

sad-dismal, sorrowful, melancholy., sorrowfully,sobbing, depressed, alarming, shocking,startling,intimidating, happy, joyful, bright, colourful, happily,joyfully
Please learn these spellings and write a short description of a happy, sad and frightening setting. Use: adjectives, adverbs and metaphores including personification-The whole class. Do this in blue spelling book.

Help with maths and homework

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/shape_space/grids/play.shtml
Thursday-Finish science at least one page for tomorrow
http://www.topicbox.org.uk/Maths/Symmetry/

Science tomorrow

http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/infection/02_bac/02_bac.html

that really powerful video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQmz6Rbpnu0&feature=fvsr
Well worth showing your parents

microbes zoo

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/zoo/

more revision help

Homework

Wednesday-Maths sheets to be done for tomorrow
Next monday we change to PE kit all day.
Please make sure you look at the web site to read all the information about canary day and special dates for the end of this term.

Story of Buddha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOTPCcATaAc

Help simplifying fractions

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/fractiondecimalpercentage/fractions/simplifyingfractions/

Spelling homework

Although some of you have other spellings, I would like everybody to use these connectives to do their spelling sentence homework.Please write at least ten sentences where two or more clauses have been joined by these connectives: even though, though, however,therefore, consequently, moreover,so, but, subsequently,due to,in spite of, These are the spellings for next week. Group 2
spellings which,why,what,who,when,whale,white,whip, whistle,whiskers,wheat,wheel,

homework

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/englishD3.htm
Open the powerpoint on writing informal letters
Friday-Write an informal letter to a friend describing your holiday-talk about how you felt.Try to include at least two sentences with clauses.Two more advanced connectives and good descriptive language. To be given in on Monday.Do this in your Big write book or your literacy book.

Wednesday and Thursday-Homework
Research and take one word notes on one of these topics for the BIG WRITE on Friday
Rainforest-trees
insects
people
plants
houses
medicine
use web sites from yesterday

Non chronological information reports

http://www.writingfun.com/writingfun2010.html

rainforest information

http://www.rainforestanimals.net/
http://www.rainforestanimals.net/guide.html
http://kids.mongabay.com/
http://www.chiddingstone.kent.sch.uk/homework/rainforest.html
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/language-games/medium/rainforest-animals
http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/kids

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/shape_space/shapes/read6.shtml
http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-5/area-of-squares-and-rectangles practise maths
http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-5

Homework

Tuesday-maths sheets for today and tomorrow to be given in on Thursday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqDpxwWehuE have a look at this video

Art

I would really appreciate it if pupils could bring in oldnewspapers for art. Thankyou

spellings group 2

Group 2-moth,
bath, breath, thank, thirsty,thirty,path,mouth,cloth,teeth,south, there, those, there,weather, father.-This group needs to learn these spellings and write a sentence for each for Monday,s homework.b

spellings

spellings group1-sadly,furiously,angrily, happily,calmly,gently,gracefully,shyly,
doubtfully,irritably,cheerfully,anxiously,solemnly,enthusiastically,crossly,cruelly,defiantly

Homework

Monday-learn spellings and write complex sentences using clauses separated by commas for 10 adverbs.

Homework

only three weeks to the exams.Then we can have some real fun.

Remember that you need to bring in a photo.

This week i have got some some more revision sheets for you to have a look at.

homework

Thursday-to redraft recount on paper or in big write book for Monday

http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhism/ebooks.htm
Have a look at Buddha's life
Tuesday maths -Probability
Wed maths pie charts
Both to be given in on Thursday

Welcome back to school 5A

It's great to see you all back safe and sound after your rest. now it's back to homework, I am afraid. Monday-spellings to learn for next week.
complain,smile, groan, scowl, chuckle, snigger, grumble, grin,sigh,moan, chortle,whinge,cackle,laugh,giggle,whine,smirk,cheer,grizzle,sneer.
please write ten sentences in your blue spelling books using these reporting verbs and punctuating your speech correctly.
For register time prepare a sensational sentence using one of these words-tragic, horrific, devastating

Friday

On Friday the children will be allowed to wear street clothes. A small donation should be made to charity for this priviledge.

Homework

Here are some more SATS revision pages

spellings this week

learn the plural rules and to be able to apply them. mischief, deceive,neighbour, ceiling,interview, friend, height, kaliedoscope,fierce,children,

Costumes

All the children must have all their costumes including their jeans and T-Shirts in school by now

Maths homework

Use the information before to solve these angles problems please give your homework in next Tuesday

Some facts to help you revise 2D shapes and angles

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/index.html

Link for Olympic game info

http://greece.mrdonn.org/olympics.html

SATS revision sheet

homework

Please don't forget to send the money for the trip to school in an envelope with the child's name and class: It is 9 Euros.

Also the children have been asked to bring jeans with T-Shirts for the last part of the show.The brighter the colour of the T-Shirt the better.

Homework tonight is to finish their Olympic games Pamphlet.Here is the extra information

Homework

In spelling books each child is to write 10 long sentences with correct punctuation and word order including subject verb objectadding time phrases adjectives and adverbs for next Monday-This is to practise todays grammar.

More revision

SATS revision

coasts

http://www.juicygeography.co.uk/interactivegames.htm#
this is hard but you might be be able to understand some of the coast links
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2geography.html
http://www.topicbox.org.uk/Geography/Coasts/

Wednesday's homework for next Tuesday

sorry wrong one

revision

Homework

Children are to finish their coast sketch and label all these features for tomorrow
Stack,cave,arch,stump,headland,bay,beach, corrasion, attrition, valley, long shore drift, attrition hydraulic action.The picture should be well drawn and coloured in using coloured pencils.

web sites for maths revision

It is now time for the children to revisit many of the concepts covered in their time in the primary school. Here are some websites to help
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/revision/
Use the web links on this page
http://www.oldswinford.dudley.gov.uk/KS2_SATS_REVISION_SITES.htm
loads of questions to practise
http://www.ickids.org.uk/sats.htm
That's all for now folks!

SATS revision

Could you also remind children that they need to speak English in class

Spellings

Monday's homework learn spelling and do 15 sentences.
Group 1 Planner, letter,knitter,drummer, chillier, tinier, easier, happier, funnier, ruder,closer, whiter, careful, carefully,painless, painful
Group 2-teeth, wheel, need, beef, bee,week,sea,meat,clean,please.eat, teacher, sea, beach,easy

Spellings this week

Homework

Please do planned description in literacy books for tomorrow Friday.

Homework

Literacy sheet for next Monday

maths revision

Direct science link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/physical_processes/

Maths revision

Some maths help

science

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/physical_processes/

Spellings for this week

Monday homework
There are two different sets of spellings
fattening,interest,lettuce, parliament, alcohol,mathematics,consonant,describe,medicine,similar,separate,definite,interesting,holiday,February,battery,factory,lottery,journalist,astromony

zoo,cool,room,tooth,smooth,spoon,hoop,school,book,wood,hood, flood,cook,good,stood.

The children must use their group of spellings to write 15 sentences that must show their understanding of the words they are using.

greek stories

http://storynory.com/2007/01/15/in-the-cyclops-cave/

http://storynory.com/2007/01/15/in-the-cyclops-cave/

Maths homework

Homework

For next Monday.Please do the sheet on hyphens and dashes.
I will give you some maths homework tomorrow to be given in on Tuesday.

This is for a murga and canterbury school is obviously nothing like this
We are sick of macaronis and of soup every day. Give us ice-cream for our pudding and Tony Roma twice a day.
We would like to leave our shirts out. It’s so naff to tuck them in. Don’t the teachers know of fashion. Calvin Klein and Dior are in.
We just want to speak in Spanish. All the day if possible. And we will speak in Spanglish.It’s the language of the school
We are sick of school uniform.We just need a little change.can’t we hike our skirts up like Marta, just because it rains.
As for soft balls on the patio, who do you really think we are?If we practised with a hardball ,all the matches we would win
Ladi ladi ladi ladi ladi ladi
Get rid of all school rules.
Ladi ladi ladi ladi ladi ladi
Get rid of all school rules.
We are sick of slow computers that is if they work today
AdsL is what we need, but we just don´t want to pay.
Where has all the good blutac gone? What we have falls off the walls. Is there such a crisis that we can´t decorate our walls?

please learn for Friday.this is obviously a murga

Homework

This is the numeracy homework To be given in next week(Wednesday)This is the last homework I will give before Carnival.We have all been working really hard and it is a very long term. The children need a break so that they can come back refreshed and ready to learn.I wish all the children and families in 5A a really happy,relaxing and safe Carnival.Don't forget that the children need to come to school already in their fancy dress on Friday.

Wednesday homework

Read text and answer part A and do c in literacy books.This is revision of
formal language.To be given in tomorrow ,Wednesday.

Monday homework

Children will be learning their own spelling mistakes from their blue spelling book.
The sentences this week will be 10 sentences two for each of these words one using the superlative and another using the comparative.
happy, big,kind,sensible,sad

costume for show

TEFL Homework

Please complete sheet given out and explained in class for nextWednesday

Writing Fun Website

This is is really good website to show text types. Click http://www.writingfun.com/writingfun2010.html.

explanation text

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/englishD4.htm Go to powerpoint from this page.For homework this evening the children have to plan a explanation text.
 They can choose but it is not an information text ;it has to explain something for example-Why do birds migrate? How does a periscope work?
Why do Kangaroos jump?This should be planned in their literacy book for tomorrow's big write.This week they can bring sweets that you suck (so as not to make any noise and distract others)-one or two only to make it special.Don't forget your special pen and writers notebook.

Comprehension for Charlotte's web

Chapters 5 and 6

L  Why is Wilbur so pleased when morning arrived? How do you know?

L  Why does the author keep saying ‘the friend’ rather than telling us who it is?

L  Why is Wilbur so horrified by what Charlotte tells him?

L  What fate does the goose think awaits Wilbur?

L  What does the end of Chapter 5 tell us about Charlotte and how does it encourage us to read on?

L  Read the scene setting at the beginning of Chapter 6. What picture of the farm in summer does it paint?

L  How do the geese feel about Templeton? Find the words and phrases that describe him.

Chapters 7 and 8

L  How did Wilbur react to the sheep’s news?

L  Read p.54. Why does the cliffhanger work?

L  What questions are you left asking and why does it make you want to read on?

L  What do you notice unusual about the conversation between Fern and her parents?

L  Do you agree with Mr. or Mrs. Arable or neither?

L  Why do you think the author has made the whole of chapter 8 just this one conversation?

Reading comprehension questions for Stig of the dump

Chapter 4

Gone A-Hunting, pages 51-58

How did Barney try to help Stig to understand about hunting?

What did they take with them?

Why did Stig drop to the ground?

What do you think Stig was hunting for?

Why was Barney unsure about killing the pheasant?

Why did the two boys hide?

Why do you think Stig did not kill the fox?

“Stig Of The Dump”

by Clive King

Page 58 – 64

What did Stig do to get rid of the hound?

What do you think Stig was thinking when he heard the hunt?

Why could Stig move so quickly through the undergrowth and Barney could not?

Describe the scene when the white horse came out of the wood.

What had Lou really seen?

Why didn’t Lou say anything when Barney had told her about hunting with Stig?

“Stig Of The Dump”

by Clive King

Chapter 5

The Snargets, pages 65 – 72

Describe what Barney could see from the window in the first paragraph.

What did Barney hear and see in the pit?

Who were they?

What were they doing?

Why did Barney throw clay at the shelter?

Who do you think Albert is?

What were the Snargets doing inside the shack before they all walked away?

Would you have gone into the shack if you were Barney?

Did the Snargets believe that Stig was real?

How did Barney describe Stig?

“Stig Of The Dump”

by Clive King

Pages 73 – 80

Why did Barney suddenly feel sorry for the Snargets once he had gone into Stig’s cave?

Why didn’t Stig move back when Barney did?

Why do you think Stig took the young Snarget to his den after he had fallen?

What did the “white flag” mean?

What did the older Snarget boys bring for Stig?

What did Stig do with the jelly babies at first?

What did Stig do with his cigarette?

Why do you think Barney wasn’t sure whether to have a cigarette?

What did the Snargets do to prove they would not tell the secret to anyone?

Maths homework

Here is your maths homework for this week.Please give it on Monday

Some more science info

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/revision/Science/lightshadows.html

Not finished in class also for homework

Tuesday homework

Please finish practise and challenger for tomorrow (Wednesday)This should be done in your literacy book.

Greek gods

http://greece.mrdonn.org/greekgods/index.html

Athens and Sparta

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/worldhistory/lycurgussolon.htm This web site will tell about the differences

more homework

Please finish spelling to be stuck in literacy book for tomorrow(Some children have already finished this).

Science revision site

Next week we will be having a test on light so have a look at the BBC sight to revise
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/physical_processes/
go to the light and dark section

homework today

Monday-learn spellings for test next week -you have to know the meanings to
There are two spelling groups your child will know which one they are in they do sentences with the spellings they have to learn.
spellings-revise, return, replay, review, reflects, remember, repeat, reaction, rebellion, rebound, refresh, retreat,revenge, reverse, retrieve, recycle

calf-calves, half -halves self selves cliff cliffs
sniff-sniffs life lives, knife-knives
safe saves

homework

Obviously, as the week progresses ,sometimes homework is changed.The maths homework will be given for Friday this week and tonight as you can see they have been asked to do some research.It is always a good idea to keep an eye on the blog in case of changes. Thankyou

information text

The children have been asked to write an information text for the BIG WRITE tomorrow here is some information to help them

Science

sorry I forgot again could you bring your torches in please to experiment tomorrow morning.

answers test 11

this weeks homework

Monday-learn spellings and meanings -.10 sentences to include spellings.
Some `people have a sheet with the spellings on for the rest these are the spellings.Prefix,preamble, preamplifier,precarious,precast, precedent, preview,prehistoric, prevent, previous, predominant,premonition, preperation, `prescription,prelude,premature.
Tuesday-literacy sheet for Thursday
Wednesday-re draft 3 point for and thre points against school uniform each on separate half of A4 paper.
Thursday-maths homework for monday

Charlotte's web questions

Chapters 3 and 4

L  Why is the barn described using smells?

L  How does Wilbur like his new home?

L  How does Wilbur enjoy his freedom at first?

L  Trace the build-up of the chaos as they chase Wilbur – is it written effectively?

L  How does Wilbur feel when he sees the rain? Why?

L  How does Lurvy know something is wrong with Wilbur? Does he understand what is really wrong?

L  Wilbur asks the goose, lamb and rat to play but they refuse unkindly. How does that make you feel for Wilbur?

L  Read the cliffhanger at the end of the chapter – how is it effective?

Stig of the dump for ch 3 and 4

“Stig Of The Dump”

by Clive King

Chapter 3

It Warms you Twice, pages 36 - 43

What time of year is it?

In your own words, describe the dump and Stig’s cave when Barney got there.

What did Barney think was wrong with Stig?

“He moved as if his joints were rusty”, what does this tell you about how Stig moved?

Why do you think Stig did not take the axe?

Why did Barney’s grandfather say that wood would warm you twice?

Why did Barney climb the tree?

Why was Stig cutting so quickly with the saw?

How had seeing the axe and the saw changed Stig’s mood? Why?

“Stig Of The Dump”

by Clive King

Pages 43 - 50

What did the two boys do with the tree once it had been brought down?

How did Stig try start the fire?

What do you think Stig thought when he saw Barney lighting the matches?

Why wouldn’t Stig waste another match?

Describe what Stig drew on the wall.

Do you think Barney’s sister and grandmother believed that Stig was real?

“Stig Of The Dump”

by CliveChapter 4

Gone A-Hunting, pages 51-58

How did Barney try to help Stig to understand about hunting?

What did they take with them?

Why did Stig drop to the ground?

What do you think Stig was hunting for?

Why was Barney unsure about killing the pheasant?

Why did the two boys hide?

Why do you think Stig did not kill the fox?

“Stig Of The Dump”

by Clive King

Page 58 – 64

What did Stig do to get rid of the hound?

What do you think Stig was thinking when he heard the hunt?

Why could Stig move so quickly through the undergrowth and Barney could not?

Describe the scene when the white horse came out of the wood.

What had Lou really seen?

Why didn’t Lou say anything when Barney had told her about hunting with Stig?

information on coasts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/coastal/erosion_landformsrev3.shtml

some ideas for the big write tomorrow

Include the purpose of the guide and a statement of the issue that is being debated)
Facts-People have been wearing school uniforms for two hundred years.80% of UK schools wear uniform however, every year more schools are getting rid of school uniform.Many people are debating the issue of school uniform.
3 paragraphs supporting school uniform
     To identify the school they attend--proud,
passive tense-present
Safety-school trips
Makes everyone the same they could be judged by their clothes.Not fair.
Everbody is put on an equal standing
3 paragraphs against school uniform
children will look more fashionable casual and relaxed
comfortable
Express your own personality-children are not robots
o sum up
This writer believes....
clauses marked by commas,semi colons used to separate to connected sentences
However,furthermore,if could might,on the other hand ,finally,firstly,secondly.
Remember to bring your favourite pen any soothing classical CDs you have and a special notebook.Let's all be great writers

Have fun learning about the olympic games

http://www.clipal.com/video/ancient_greece