Following technical issues last week, here are the children’s persuasive adverts selling me items.

Enjoy!

Today we had a team of kids head to the High School for a maths challenge and they did a great job of representing the school!

Enjoy your weekend, I know I will!

Today “First aid First” came to teach us important first aid skills including CPR and the recovery position.

We also learned about diabetes, seizures and asthma attacks.

In focused learning we made more stop motion videos of ww2.

Here are some more pictures of our focused learning work.

This morning, we had to sell Mr McMullan everyday objects. We only had 30 seconds to sell them to him and we had to make sure we included

• positive things the product does
• The price with a special offer
• how it can make my life better.

We recorded the sales pitches but we are having technical problems uploading them. We will try again tomorrow.

In reading, we have been learning about DNA and about using a punnett square to work out the different possible combinations of DNA you can pass on to your children.

We have also been learning about “Peace Makers” such as Nelson Mandela and Raoul Wallenberg

Finally, our WW2 blitz display is starting to look great!

We have been learning about DNA!

We have learned that DNA is the recipe for life – it controls what we look like, who we are and how healthy we might be.

We have explored different traits which we have inherited from our parents and worked out who’s trait we got eg hair colour, tongue roller or straight/bent thumb.

Talk to someone in your family about different traits that you could have inherited from them and who’s traits you can see the most clearly.

If yo want to know more, here are some other useful links to watch and read.

http://www.ducksters.com/science/biology/chromosomes.php

We have also been learning about estimating angles.

Finally, we have decorated some of our planes for the WW2 wall display with smoke and bombs! They look epic!

Homework week beginning 6.3.17

Fairtrade Maths

Fairtrade products often cost slightly more than non-fairtrade products. Sometimes it’s a little bit more and sometimes it’s a lot more. This means that the farmer gets more money so their life is better and they can provide a better life for their family.

Go to the shop or go online to Tesco, ASDA, Sainsburys websites and find the price difference between the Fairtrade and non-Fairtrade versions of the same item.

For example, if you search for “Fairtrade” on tesco.com, there are 109 products.

Find the difference for these products. What is the total difference?

• Ice cream (Ben and Jerry’s is Fairtrade)
• Coffee
• Tea
• Chocolate
• Bananas
• Rice (some supermarkets don’t sell Fairtrade rice)
• Cocoa or hot chocolate

Language

Read up to the pages on the language wall (or further if you want). Choose a character from the book that you would like to write a short story about. Write a short story about that character/Characters. Your story needs to be influenced by the things you already know about the character – their personality, where they live, what they do, who the other characters in their lives are. Maximum 1000 words! You need to plan it so that your whole story happens before 1000 words.

On Thursday we had our ww2 focused learning!

We are now getting extremely good at each activity.

Here are some stop motion animations that were made