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Weekly Fun. By Zainab Ahmed

This week we have been drawing silhouettes, looking at the timeline of Queen Victoria and even tricking each other with a disappearing coin trick. Silhouettes are pictures or drawings only taken of the side of a person’s face.

As you can see this girl’s fringe, lips, lashes, ponytail and her hair on top of her head all stick out, but you can’t see the features of her face.

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We have also started our Victorians topic and we learned that Queen Victoria was the first person to get her picture taken by French photographer Alexander Bassano. Queen Victoria was also the first one to actually use the telephone, to be put to sleep with an anaesthetic, to have her voice recorded and she was the first person to be filmed.  Queen Victoria was Queen on 1837 and she was born on 24th of May 1819 and died in 1901.

Our comprehension passage was called ‘Disappearing Coin Trick’. To make this you get 2 pieces of the same coloured card. Cut a hole in one and stick it onto a clear cup then get the other piece of card and place it upside down on the other piece of card. Place a coin underneath and see your audience get amused when covering the coin with the cup!

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Disappearing Coin Trick. By Aisha Qayyum

In class with Mrs Kyle we did a comprehension passage. The title was ‘Disappearing Coin Trick’. We all thought we weren’t going to get to do the trick, but at the end Mrs Kyle surprised us and said we could make the trick!

The things you will need: 

Card,

A plastic cup,

Scissors,

Glue,

Napkin

A penny.

The first thing you do is draw around the cup and cut out the circle. The second thing you do is glue the circle on to the part of the cup you drink from.

This is how the trick works:

You put the cup on the card. Place the penny right beside it. After that get your napkin and cover the cup with the napkin. Now, you pick up the glass and put it over the penny.

Time for the MAGIC!!!!!!!!! ABRACADABRAH!!!! Now take the napkin off and the coin is gone.

Finally, pick up the glass and the coin is reappeared.

 

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The BFG. By Sergei De Rosa-Cairns

In class we have been reading an extract from Roald Dahl’s The BFG. When we did comprehension work on it I completed most of the questions. I need to do is finish a drawing showing all of the dreams he has caught. The skills I was developing were ‘finding and using information’ and developing my ‘understanding of literary devices’. I enjoyed re-reading part of the story again because I really liked reading the novel.

 We also wrote about a dream or memory that we have on a piece of paper and rolled it up. Then we put it in a glass milk bottle and decorated the bottle using acrylic paints. Miss Orchant told us to ‘bottle our dream forever’ so we shut it tight with a lid just like the dreams that the BFG caught.

 

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