Morning everyone! Just been checking in on this week’s Sumdog challenge – you had to answer 200 questions on your tables but I also wanted accuracy. With that in mind, very well done to…

*Cleo*    *Orla*     *Joe*     and      *James*      who have all completed the challenge AND got over 90% of their answers accurate.

You’ve got til tomorrow to finish, so I’ll keep an eye out for others…. Charlie, you’re sitting on 99% accuracy right now, can you complete it and keep it that high?!

Miss S

This Thursday Rhona made pancakes and I recorded what she did. Mum made us do it before we had even ate anything.

 

 

Also I did my five a day yesterday,

 

By Charlie And Rhona (Sort of)

Update: I said Mrs Madden’s post was long…Not too long!

Reminder for pupils:  correct SPELLING and accurate PUNCTUATION are needed in all posts. Check carefully before posting!!

We’re teachers, we’re supposed to check these things!!

Miss Dale

 

Decorative and Useful Clip

Miss Dale told me that my Whistle Whittling blog was too long last week so I’m going to try to do a shorter one this week.

To make this clip you will need a fairly thick branch (this one is sycamore), a pruning saw or something similar, a whittling knife, a cut resistant glove, some sand paper and a sprung wooden peg.

Saw off two discs, about 1 cm thick, from the end of your branch.

 

 

 

 

Wear your cut resistant glove and use your whittling knife to remove the bark and to slightly round off the edges of your discs of wood.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sand your discs, first with coarse sand paper to remove all the rough bits and then use the finer sand paper to smooth the wooden discs.

 

 

 

 

 

Once you are satisfied that the discs are smooth, you can paint one of them with a design of your choice.  I chose a daisy and varnished it once it was dry.  Then I glued both discs to either side of a wooden peg, using wood glue and left it to dry.

 

 

 

 

 

I stuck my clip onto the inside of my kitchen sink cupboard door, using sticky fixers, so that I could hang my rubber gloves up.

BIG THURSDAY!

Looking forward to seeing what you get up to today!

Check out the learning pages for the new Big Thursday learning grid.

 

Today in the evening I phoned Dakota because I’ve not FaceTimed her in a while. Dakota was dying her hair purple. When I was on the phone call Dakota started tiding her wardrobe but then she didn’t want to finish. We talked for about an hour and then I had to go. I phoned back to see her hair about half an hour later and she showed me her hair. It turned out very faint but still nice. Hope you enjoyed my blog bye. By Orla.

Today I learnt some French. I learnt some words and also some landmarks and I drew the country flag. My cat Ludo is getting better. My cat Saxon is getting a lot of attention as he is feeling a bit left out. Saxon only has one eye but he is very cute and it was his dream to become a pirate! I did some maths today and got some of them right but had to do three over again as I got them wrong first time. Mark helped me a lot. I am excited as tomorrow I am going to learn how to do tie dye with mummy. I am also going to make an ice cream sunday. (Sam – I will try and do something that isn’t sweet as you cant enjoy ice cream.)
Bye see you soon love Tanith xx

Hi all, quick update from Caspian. These are my woodpecker facts from yesterday.

1. They can peck a tree 30  times per second.
2.  They peck trees to make nests.
3. Their life span is 6  – 11 years.
4. There are 200 species of woodpecker.
5. Some species live in deserts.
6. There are air pockets protecting their brains so they don’t hurt their head when they are pecking.
7. Males and females make the nest together.
8. The wood chippings make the nest soft for the chicks.
9. Woodpeckers are endangered.
10. Sometimes they accidentally peck metal and telephone poles.

Hi all, I’m back with some good news. Ludo is much better and is allowed out of his hospital cage on a regular basis now. He is not allowed to jump though as his pelvis is still mending. Also, today Saxon our pirate cat decided to hide in a delivery bag for five minutes!

Anyway, back to school work now. I got my work done quite quickly today. I had vocabulary, maths and French language and French geography today. I have also read a lot on Epic. Last night I read a lot while Ludo was curled up on my knee.

Bye.

 

 

This is my painting of a kingfisher. By Esmae