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

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