Today we were calculating the stopping distances for cars travelling at different speeds.

We also measured out the thinking distance before the driver can start to break their car.

In PE we were learning the SMASH in badminton!

For anyone interested in space, check out the “Cassini spacecraft” which has just been sent on a mission to Saturn and has sent amazing photographs back from Saturn and it’s moons.

https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/saturn-tour/where-is-cassini-now/

https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/cassini-spacecraft-nasa-saturn-rings-orbit-google-doodle-what-means-dive-a7702691.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/cassini-spacecraft-saturn-orbit-rings-images-pictures-photos-nasa-unmanned-mission-a7703496.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/cassini-spacecraft-saturn-orbit-rings-images-pictures-photos-nasa-unmanned-mission-a7703496.html#gallery

Our space topic is up and running now and we are learning all about how vast our solar system is let alone the rest of the universe!

We are going to be learning about how gravity works, how the density of different planets affects their gravity, the different types of stars and how all these things interact in the universe!

Week beginning 24^th April 2017

Space

We are learning about Space, specifically the different parts of the universe including the solar system, the different planets and their moons and the Milky Way galaxy.

We are going to make a 3-D wall display for space, so you need to design and build your own planet.

It can be based on a real planet, or completely made up. It can have moons or not, it can have aliens or not.

You have until Friday 5^th May for this part of the homework.

***Additional homework – research Halley’s Comet

• Where is it?
• What is it?
• What does it do?
• When will we see it?

Maths

We are finishing off our time topic. You have a worksheet to finish by Friday. If you need help or need me to explain it, bring it in tomorrow.

Active learn – practice 10 minutes per day.

***THE BIG QUESTION***

Why do trees have lots of little leaves and not a couple of big ones?

Best answer wins a prize

Today we were exploring how to create words from a selection of letters using the “word cookies” game.

We were extremely good at it so we created our own version for each other!

In ICT we were creating  instructions to show Miss Hannaway how to use the KODU game. Our instructions were short and clear and used specific language.

We are starting a topic on Space. Here are some great websites to get started learning about it.

http://www.kidsastronomy.com/

https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

http://www.theplanetstoday.com/

http://hubblesite.org/image/4012/gallery

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/kbos

https://www.universetoday.com/

Today we were learning about how to calculate speed by dividing distance by the the length of time taken.

In PE we raced cars and recorded how long it took to travel a 10 meter course.

Then we calculated the speed at which we can move in different ways eg hopping, running, piggy back.

Today was the last day of our focused learning. We have covered a huge amount of work and produced an amazing amount of work.

Here are the last two stop motion animation videos.

The cooking group worked really well together, but for some reason the final cookies were more like spongy bread!

Maths 

Time worksheets

***Extra*** – Continue to do time activities from the homework ideas sheet

language 

Reading – finish your reading book! we will be covering this after Easter so you need to have finished your book.

music

Find a song written in the 80s that Mr McMullan would like. Bonus points if he’s never heard it before.

Big Question!

“Would you rather have two tiny t-rex arms (two fingers and one thumb) or eight octopus tentacles”

The best answer gets a prize…

We had some great crazy hair today for Red nose day.

And some brilliant red nose day nails

Today was the 5th week of focused learning.

The cooking group were a huge success today – they made two batches of cookies in less than an hour!

As a class we have learned a lot from each other – by watching other groups do the activities and by evaluating our performance with proper next steps.

Here are some more photos and the stop motion videos that the children made.

art

technology

drama

Cooking

the cookies were extremely tasty!

Writing

samuel and shannon

Jamie and Lucy

Chloe and Megan