Today we were using the RACECAR idea to help us problem solve.

We had to experiment and check our answer was correct, by following the information in the question.

here is the problem – can anyone at home work out the correct solution?

***NO HELPING KIDS!***

A farmer needs to take a chicken, a fox and a bag of grain across a river.

He can only take one thing in his boat at a time.

He can’t leave the fox alone with the chicken.

He can’t leave the chicken alone with the grain.

What order does he take the animals across the river in?

He can go across and back as many times as he wants.

We were also continuing to apply what we have learned in French. We were designing a French calendar using our knowledge of numbers, days and months and we were using google translator to help us work out the French names for different events throughout the year.

 

 

Homework week beginning 2^nd October

 

Language

We are learning about inference. This means you are trying to work out extra information from what it says in the text

For the following sentences, write down all the extra information you can work out.

1. He got his hat a coat on.
2. The present was so big that they needed two people to carry it in.
3. The child didn’t notice that their room had been cleaned for the 3^rd time that week.
4. The hurricane hadn’t been stopped by anything.

 

Maths

We are learning to remember, work out and use doubles and halves. Practice your doubles and halves using the game “hit the button”.

 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

record your score for 4 different levels of the game.

Complete the following doubles

12               24               18               29               38               103

Extra challenge = 2.9            3.8              4.46           3.98           2.338

Complete the following halves

82               70               120             150             48               96

Extra challenge = 3.84                   12.9           4.68           2.77

 

PE

As part of our continued fitness work, you have to record your scores in different exercises (see extra sheet)

Today we were questioning each other in French about our birthdays. This helped us learn our months of the year and gave us even more practice with our numbers up to 31.

Here is a great song to help you learn the pronunciation of French months.

 

here are some games to play as well

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primarylanguages/french/my_calendar/games/magic_cards_calendar_days/

http://www.softschools.com/french/games/matching6.html

http://www.digitaldialects.com/French/Daysmonths.htm

In maths, we were racing against each other to solve double and half questions. The paper had numbers on them and a question was called out – first person to race to the answer won house points!

 

Today was our third week of the focused learning and the groups are really coming along great!

Cooking

the cooking group are basically independent now – they are able to make two full batches, work tidily and clean up after themselves. This makes Mr McMullan’s job really easy!

 

Technology

The technology group has build on the work of the previous two weeks and has nearly made a full bike! We are only missing the pedals, handlebars and the carrying box.

ICT

The stop motions are getting better each week and this week we can see the difference in the length of time that the writing is on screen for!

Drama

Drama groups are all creating scripts about the work that the charity carries out.

Writing

the writing group is the hardest piece of learning to complete. There isn’t a large amount of time and there is a lot to do. No group has yet solved the front cover problem, but we are getting better at organising our work!

 

In French, we have been learning how to ask about the date and our birthdays.

 

Here are some recordings of children doing an amazing job at pronouncing French words – remember this is the first time that we have tried this!

Great day at school, well done!

This morning with Mrs Rutherford, we were learning about Buddhism and mindfulness.

We discussed our mindset towards new challenges and towards things we don’t know how to do – if we have decided in our heads that we can’t do something, then it will be much harder to actually do it.

We watched a video about Martyn Ashton who was paralysed in a mountain biking accident last year, but has decided that this won’t stop him riding his bike down a huge mountain!

Watch the video to be inspired to keep your mindset positive.

Today we continued our VCOP learning by writing stories about our monster characters  that we created on Friday.

After that, in Maths we learned more about number bonds and decimal number bonds.

 

After lunch we went to PE and used keynote app on the iPad’s to make a slideshow about good and bad techniques. We made them for Squats, lunge, plank and the last one you could chose yourself!

 

By Ciara Watson

Have a great weekend.

Today we had our second week of our focused learning based on our charity topic.

 

Cooking

This week’s cooking group were outstanding! they did a very excellent job of working together to follow a recipe and made two full batches!

The only problem was Mr McMullan forgot to bring eggs, but the dinner ladies saved his skin!

ICT

We are getting better at making stop motions. Check back again tomorrow to see the finished products.

Art

The bike has had it’s second coat of paint and next week’s group will build the bike.

 

Writing

this week we decided that two people should work on one leaflet because we don’t have enough time to make one each! The meant that the leaflets had more information.

Drama

The drama groups wrote two scripts and tomorrow will practice and then show their drama to the class.

Today in maths, we started a new topic – number bonds.

We remembered our number bonds to 10 and explored how to use these to help us with any number bonds including 1,000 and decimal number bonds.

We played boys vs girls and the boys won!

Rematch tomorrow!

 

In HWB we were continuing our focus on healthy eating. We are exploring why a food is healthy or unhealthy and what the different nutritional categories are.

Today we were exploring new reading books and retrieving information from them.

We focused on scanning for keywords to help us find specific information.

We also pushed our heart rate to the maximum in PE. We got a heart rate monitor for our ipads, but it wasn’t 100% accurate. Get one at home and try it yourself!

Homework – to be in for Wednesday 27th September at latest. 

Homework week beginning 18^th September

 

Maths

We are practicing our number bonds to 10, 20 and 100. We are also exploring new number bonds including decimal number bonds.

Complete the following

6 + _ = 10            2 + _ = 20                      30 + _  = 100

8 + _ = 10            _ + 14 = 20                    51 + _ = 100

_ + 9 = 10            16 + _ = 20                    25 + _ = 100

3 + _ = 10            8 + _ = 20                      49 + _ = 100

Extra challenge questions

290 + _ = 1,000                      0.1 + _ = 1.0                           0.25 + _ = 1.0

350 + _ = 1,000                      0.4 + _ = 1.0                           0.45 + _ = 1.0

893 + _ = 1,000                      1.6 + _ = 2.0                           0.87 + _ = 1.0

If you want even more practice, make up 8 number bond sums with the answer 0.10

 

There are also lots of excellent maths games on our blog from the last two weeks – play some of them.

Language

We have learned about a new way to improve our writing. It is called VCOP – it stands for Vocabulary, connectives, openers, punctuation. We include as many of these as possible to improve our writing.

For homework you have to write a 100 word story. You have already designed a monster in class. You need to write a story, start to finish total = 100 words about “my monster on holiday”. Targets are 5 wow words, 2 connectives, 2 openers, 10 punctuation.

Remember connectives like but, however, although, then, until.  Openers can be a time something happened or an adverb eg suddenly, excitedly etc.

HWB

Food diary –  to help us identify where we can make healthy choices in our diet, we will be keeping a food diary! I will give children a food diary tomorrow to keep track of their food for the next week.

As part of our learning about Qhubeka charity, we are following a 5 week focused learning plan.

This means that each week each group does a different subject area, then they evaluate their performance and share this with the next group to do the activity.

The idea is that we get better each week and by the end we are all independent, confident and our learning is at the highest level it can be.

 

Cooking

we made African black pepper cookies. They were very delicious and we cleared up really well.

 

ICT

we explored making stop motion with ipads.

This is our first week doing Stop motions, so they aren’t perfect!

This group can now evaluate it’s learning and share top tips for the next group how to get better.

Technology

We are building a buffalo bike cooperatively. This week we painted the frame and made a seat and wheels.

Writing

We are making information leaflets about Qhubeka using paper wallets.

Drama

we wrote drama scripts to show the impact of the work Qhubeka does and created props.