This morning we had our final Anderson Shelters for homework!

The P6/7, P5/6 and P5s voted for their favourite shelters!

3rd place was the “Tinfoil Terror” by Melissa

2nd place was “The ultimate Garden” by Rachael

1st place was the “Two story terror” by Ewan

Well done to everyone, the shelters showed great creativity, effort and skill.

In ICT we were exploring a new computer program called “Kodu”.

We had to explore the program to work out how to build a place, create characters and make them move.

Finally, Katy got a book from the library of ww2 poems and read one for the class.

This morning the Baldy Bane company delivered a very interesting and thought-provoking presentation about road safety.

The pupils had the opportunity to direct scenes so that outcomes of the scene were different and more successful.

Tomorrow is Mardi Gras. We learnt a little about the festival today as part of French. If you can, have a look at the carnivals in Nice and New Orleans.

Homework week beginning 27^th  2017

Fairtrade

This week is fairtrade fortnight. We are learning more about the Fairtrade organisation, who they support and how we can get involved.

For homework

• Design a new Fairtrade logo. It should be clear, colourful and eye catching.
• Read some Fairtrade news articles and take notes (remember, your notes don’t need to be full sentences, just short important information)
  • https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/feb/27/uk-falls-in-love-again-with-fairtrade-bananas-and-coffee
  • http://www.director.co.uk/fairtrade-fortnight-21302-2/
  • http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/news/think-about-the-farmer-who-grows-your-food-fairtrade-campaigners-urge-35484975.html
  • http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/27/fairtrade-is-changing-lives-and-this-is-how-6463063/
  • http://www.orcadian.co.uk/orkney-set-fairtrade-fortnight/

• Do some Fairtrade baking!
  • https://www.wlv.ac.uk/media/wlv/pdf/fairtrade_recipe-book.pdf

Language

Read your book! An important skill is becoming a fluent reader. Pages will be on the language wall in the classroom.

Maths

Active learn

Every one is expected to do at least 1 piece of Fairtrade homework, maths and language.

If you want to do all the Fairtrade homework- GO FOR IT!

We had some amazing Anderson Shelters for homework!

Well done.

There will be a competition tomorrow where other classes will be able to vote on which shelter they like the best!

We have had some brilliant Anderson Shelters so far! People have been very creative and have followed the success criteria very well!

Next week we will be showing them to other classes and they will be able to vote for which one they think is the best!

In art we have been learning about mid-tones by using smudging and blurring.

Enjoy your weekend, I know I will!

We had a great day in school today.

In the afternoon we burned off some energy by dancing!

Today we were learning standing yoga poses to help us get stronger and more flexible.

Here is the link to the video routine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS-e9yG3OIo

We have been thinking about how to layout our writing.

We created WW2 poems for homework and created a layout that showed that it was a serious subject, but used colour, included a border and organised the writing evenly.

In ICT we were researching air raid shelters, specifically diagrams of how they were built and what materials were used to make them.

This morning we have been revising parts of speech. We applied our knowledge by selecting words and creating sentences with our group. It was helpful because we gained more confidence in identifying parts of speech.

WW2

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/war/shelters.htm

This week for homework you need to make something! Look at the website above and explore the design of an air raid shelter. They were simple buildings that people made out of whatever they had lying around. You need to do the same.

Make an air raid shelter (or specifically an Anderson Shelter if you want) out of whatever you can find lying around the house – cereal boxes, newspaper, egg cartons etc.

Your shelter needs the following

• A door
• A roof

Bonus points for

• A bed
• Sand bags
• Part of it being underground.
• Camouflage

The shelters will be due on 27^th February so you can have the weekend to work on them as well!

There will be a prize for the three best shelters!

Maths –  active learn – I’ve added new games, so keep playing them