Holywood Hullabaloo

I have tasked P6/7 to use their forces knowledge and skills to design and build a pointless contraption with a point.

Rube Goldberg was famous for his cartoons and contraptions which used elaborate components and ridiculous elements to make a simple thing happen.

With the push of just one finger the machine would be started…

I have asked the pupils to design a machine to move a pencil along, into a sharpener and then get it sharpened.

Of course, being Holywood some pupils have decided to invent Goal Scoring machines, the Thirst Quenching machine and other creations of their own.

Some designs include electric circuits and fans, dominoes and moving cars or marbles, one even has  boat moved by a tidal wave…

We will share photos when the working models are completed.

 

Last big Thursday we were doing art with Miss Pattie.  In art  we are doing different things like Koi fish and the Northern lights.

Each week we are doing something different from a different country or place, its pretty fun actually. We`re using chalk pastels right now for all the pieces of art. We also did chameleons on the first week, we had to use very very bright colours. My one was neon yellow,neon orange and neon green. We also put big patterns on them; mine was bright and stripey.                                                                                                                                                                                                                               By Josie

Hi all, Caspian is back.

Today I have done some spelling and also continued with some science on magnetic force. Today’s “Main Project” is the one in the title. I have read the story of Percy Fawcett and have written 20 things for an explorer to pack for an adventure:

1. Med kit
2. A good team of men
3. Water
4. Food (Marmalade, sandwiches, fruit)
5. Compass
6. Harpoon (for defence)
7. Map
8. Clothes
9. Ball of yarn (Used like in the story of the Minotaur)
10. Inhaler (In case one of your team is an asthmatic)
11. Flint and steel
12. Note pad and pen
13. Tents and camp beds
14. Penknife
15. Gold for trading
16. Washing materials
17. Book about nature
18. Parrot (Every good explorer needs one with a jolly name)
19. Vine sword
20. Ukulele

That is all for now, bye!!!!

Hello,

Today I have been learning a lot about whales like where they live, what the different types are, and what they eat. I hope you like my drawing.

I have also worked through a Horrible Histories game online about the Vile Victorians. It was good fun but I learned lots about the Victorians and Charles Darwin.

Smile every day, love from Tanith xxx

Hi all, Caspian is back!

I started today by working on my spellings – I like finding new and difficult words as I write a lot of my own stories and don’t want them to sound like every other writer. My latest story is top secret until I have finished it and agreed for it to be published.

I had some maths which were a refresher on decimal partitions, long multiplication and correctly identifying numbers in the millions which mum called out to me so I could write them down in words.

I watched Newsround – the top stories were about the Covid vaccine (phew), a Brazilian emu family, and the free style kite event, also in Brazil.

I started reading The Explorer by Jacqueline Wilson. I read up to the chapter titled The River. I thought it well written in places, detailed and very dramatic in terms of the story but the character did not seem well described which actually confused the story line.

Mum spoke to our new teacher today and we are starting our virtual lessons on Wednesday.

huuguughghg huuguughghg! (Goodbye in Wookie)

 

 

Hi all, Caspian is back.

Continue reading “Freeing My Mind”

 

Hello everyone

Today I have done some colouring. How are you all today? I hope you all are okay. I’m okay. I would like to tell you the colouring was fun for us. Caspian’s picture is very good I tried my best like Caspian. We had a lot of fun. What did you all do today? I did a lot of colouring. Caspian’s drawing  was a wolf, my two are not wolves but are still cute too. Caspian’s wolf has red eyes.

Goodbye for now, smile every day and be happy. Love from Tanith  Have fun. xxx

Hello everyone

Today I have done some spelling and math’s. I had a bit of spelling is was not too hard for me. With my math’s I had some help from Mark  and now I know how to do taking away with partitioned 2 digit numbers.   I also learnt when to use a comma, exclamation mark and question mark. I wrote some sentences as examples for each kind.

Be happy and smile every day, lots of love from Tanith xxx

Hi all, Caspian is back.

Today I did a comprehension on Europe (Named after the Greek Goddess Europa) and continued with some maths. Later on I did some work on the Vikings. I have watched some more Sherlock Holmes to find out more about the Edwardian period and I would like to start a lesson on dinosaurs soon because there is still so much to explore about that fascinating prehistoric period.

Ciao! (Italian)

Hello everyone

Today I have done some Maths and Reading. I was reading the teddy bear band.  In the picture I saw 5 bird’s they where so lovely to me the bird’s were sitting on 2 tree’s and it well it was so lovely. My maths was a bit hard, it was adding 2 digit numbers using partitioning, but I did it in the end. In Teddy Bear Band I felt like I was in the book because the book is just so lovely and well the book is where you you just want to be a teddy bear and have teddy bear friends like I want  to be a teddy bear and have teddy bear friends.

Well bye for now, see you all soon. Smile every day. xxx