Project for Thursday 10th April

To complete your game/story using Scratch. It would be best to have them finished before that Thursday, so we can all play them in our ICT lessons.

Homework for weekend

To write another newspaper report:

Look at all the information about what you need to include. Look at the last one you did, and think about how you could improve it. Your report can be about one of these:

- your favourite holiday

- new planet discovery that humans can live on

- after a natural disaster

- opening of a new zoo

Also look at the symmetry games posted this week. 

Homework Wednesday and Thursday- to write a newspaper report

I suggest you plan it tonight and write it up tomorrow. It can be about a discovery you found at school/home. A record being broken by someone. You could even write it about your invention.

HEADLINE

INTRODUCTION

-       Who is writing and for what newspaper

-       What you are reporting about (record)

-       Who it is

MAIN PART

-        When

-        Where

-        Why (teacher/friend had previous record)

-        How

-        Speech with every point you write

o  Person who broke it

o  People who inspired them to do it

o  Parents

o  Friends

o  The person who HAD the record

-        Possible questions: 

How do you feel about it?

How/why did you start?

Do you think anyone could break it in the future?

END

Two sentence summary, with a question at the end.

REMEMBER

-Paragraphs (when you start writing about something new- leave a line)

-Capital letters, full stops

- commas, ?, !
- CONNECTIVES!!

You all need to write instructions again

- you are going to write instructions about your favourite board game

Things to remember:

- time connectives
-what you need ( counters, number of players, dice etc...)

- a new line for each instruction

- how many players

- moves/turns people need to take

- special cards etc...

- how do you win


IF YOU HAVE FINISHED WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS THEN KEEP WORKING ON YOUR SCRATCH PROJECT

-the aim is for you to either create a short animated story or a computer game.

Homework Monday 24th March

- To write an instructional piece of text about one of these:

what happens during a fire alarm at school

what happens from the moment you wake up, to the time you get to school

what happens at one of your birthday parties

Remember to use time connectives(not the same one all the time) eg: next, after that, finally, first, then.....

- Here are also two symmetry games you can have a go with:

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/reflection.swf

http://www.innovationslearning.co.uk/subjects/maths/activities/year3/symmetry/shape_game.asp

Weekend- all the videos we have seen are excellent, so no homework this weekend as I think you all put a lot of effort into them. Just learn your spellings for Monday!

ICT

In ICT we will start to learn about computer programming. If you have time check out this website:

http://scratch.mit.edu/

Once you have created an account go onto the create. You can create a character, or use one of the saved ones. 

Look at the list of commands and drag them into the right hand screen. Click on them and your character will perform that command. You can do lots with this so check out all the different headngs. Click Tips at the top to give you extra help.  

Enjoy!!

Cross Country- Wednesday

Well done to everyone who raced yesterday. Here is the list of children from 5B who will be competing in the cross country event tomorrow. Good luck!!

Nicholas

Arthur

Bonggyun

James

Keenan

Hazal

Min Joo

Maxima

Guided reading acivities

Click on the links and add your responses:

http://padlet.com/wall/wimpykid5b


In pairs:

http://padlet.com/wall/retellstory

Homework for weekend

- those that need to complete mental maths

- to write two persuasive letters

I think everyone can improve on the letters they wrote yesterday. 

You are going to write a letter about zoos for or against, and why Mr. Boardman should buy fair trade products (coffee, bananas, chocolate)

Things to consider.

- paragraphs!
- Who are you writing to
- statement about what you are writing for and if you are for or against

MAIN AND MOST IMPORTANT PART!!!

- facts and reasons (look at videos and websites from this week), as many as you can- there are alot!!
- ask questions to generate feeling/emotions from the reader

- finish with closing statement and summary. 
- who wrote the letter

Fair trade letters here

Zoo letters here

Homework

Read the letter that the other person in your pair wrote. You are then to write a reply to that letter as if you are Mr. Boardman, arguing against what they have written.   

Write your persuasive letters here

Homework- Tuesday 11th March

- look at all the advertisement videos and leave comments.

- make sure you have placed your arguments about the zoo question in the correct place.

- add anymore suggestions to the page

- work on your video project

- attempt broken calculator maths puzzle

The homework for the rest of the week will be writing tasks:)

Last advert

ICT today- follow the link and post your views. 

- just click on the background and write your reasons for and against.

- i would like you to also comment on each others eg: i think you are right/wrong...but please give a reason.


http://padlet.com/wall/year5bzoo

Here are the videos from about bananas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV7tsXyq7ow


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAnc2zQ8evk

Monday 10th March Homework

Here are some websites about for and against zoos. Look at them and write some key points down about both points of view. I would like to know if you change your mind:

http://www.sd71.bc.ca/sd71/school/courtmid/2004_student_web/7_1/3_g_sheldon/zoos_good_or_bad.htm

http://www.earthtimes.org/nature/the-earth-times-asks-are-zoos-force-good-plain-cruel/1267/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/club/your_reports/newsid_2683000/2683153.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6240000/newsid_6241200/6241211.stm

http://www.ypte.org.uk/environmental/zoos/113

http://www.allaboutwildlife.com/endangered-species/endangered-species-population-numbers/3596

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Wild-Animals-705/2008/5/zoos-bad.htm

Second Homework

Project for 21st March- to create your own film


- your film can be about anything.
- it should be no more than 4 minutes long
- it can be a story that you like/or have made up
- you can create costumes, props for it
- use images from computer/internet
- put some music onto it 
- you can use friends and family to help you
- do not bring cameras/ipads into school, film it at home.



Last year the ideas that came up were:

- how to walk a dog
- re telling a story using Lego
- a detective story 
- a scene from your favourite film
- 'Stranger Danger' - someone getting lost at a metro station
- someone skiing
- how to make pizza
- being late for school

Good luck and enjoy film making! 

Weekend Homework

To write a biography about your character from the balloon. You could write it under these headings and then post them on the blog:

Early life
- when and where they were born
- brothers and sisters
- what their parents did

Main events
- why is this person famous?
- what effect did it have on the people/ world?
- why is this person still considered important today?

Legacy
- when and how did this person die?

Here are the adverts for your new inventions.Well done!!

Her is also a useful maths puzzle site:

http://www.transum.org/Software/Puzzles/

Here's the list of people.

Pick two of these people. Think of reasons why they would not be needed when the balloon lands in a new town for you all to live in. 

George Washington

Martin Luther King

Nelson Mandela

Ghandi

Margaret Thatcher

Albert Einstein

Barak Obama

Neil Armstrong

Michelangelo

 Steve Jobs

Bill gates

 Issac Newton

Thomas Edison

  

Queen Elizabeth 1^st

Louis Pasteur

  

Florence nightingale 

Homework- The Balloon Debate- For Friday

Your aim is to win over your audience. You have to imagine that you are all flying in a hot-air balloon over a bubbling hot volcano, and you are all sinking. Someone must be thrown out, so you all don't fall in to the volcano and die!

Your presentation will only be no more than a minute. Please do not tell anyone who you are, as it will make it more interesting on Friday.

Tonight- find out all the information about why your character is important and why they shouldn't be thrown out of the balloon. 

Eg: what did they invent, how did they make the world a better place, how are they still important now...

Thursday- Pick 1/2 characters from the list (which will appear tomorrow), and suggest reasons why they should be thrown out instead. 

You can write your script down on little pieces of paper/card and you have to use excellent persuasive language so you don't get thrown out!. Good luck!!