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

This morning in maths we were exploring the different ways we could find fractions, decimals and percentages of amounts.

We had our second week of focused learning as well!

This week, we took on the advice from the people who did that station last week to improve and also identified even more areas for improvement.

Again, the cakes were delicious!

Here are the stop motion videos for this week!

https://vimeo.com/upload

No homework this week!

However, the next section of ww2 that we will be looking at is the main events during 1941, in particular Pearl Harbour and the German invasion of Russia.

Here are some websites to show the basic overview of main events in 1941 (and beyond)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/ww2_summary_01.shtml

http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/World-War-2-Timeline-1941/

http://www.secondworldwarhistory.com/1941-ww2-events-timeline.asp

http://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_ii/ww2_timeline.php

For more information about Pearl Harbour, check this website

http://www.historyforkids.net/pearl-harbor.html

On Thursday we did our first week of a 6 week “focused learning” rotation based on ww2.

We have six different topics through which we can apply what we have learned about ww2 so far.

Art

Technology

Cooking

Writing

ICT

Drama

Each week we will evaluate our performance and identify how the next group could improve on our work.

Here is the recipe for the carrot cookies

Today was also Woodlands got Talent

Well done to everyone who took part it was a great time!

Today we had two different visits.

First was from the Science department to tell us about the Science fair which is on 22nd March (I think – I will double check the date) at 7pm.

Here is a great website for ideas.

http://www.scienceprojectideas.co.uk/

http://www.scienceprojectideas.co.uk/encouraging-children-category.html

The children have been challenged to perform a science experiment at home and then write up the experiment to display at the science fair.

His suggestions were to test something to do with food and to not do a volcano or rocket ship!

He also suggested filming the experiment to display in case it doesn’t work on the day!

Finally the High school have equipment which can be borrowed eg thermometer, beakers, UV beads etc.

There will be prizes as well!

Two modern language students came up to teach us about different languages that we can study in High School.

Today Some students went to the High School to represent woodlands in a technical challenge.

They created a catapult and also a banner with the Woodlands Motto!

All the schools took part in a target competition and we got 3rd Place!!!!

As part of the daily walking challenge, we walked 0.8 miles today, it took us 21minutes 38 seconds and we burned 136 calories!

Language

We are in the process of writing our fantasy stories. To get a clear picture in our minds of what is going to happen, draw 3 pictures to show the 3 most important events in your fantasy stories.

Extra challenge – create 3 similes to describe the pictures.

Maths 

We are going to be learning about how to calculate percentages of amounts.

Try and find percentages in real life eg in a shop for reductions in prices, on TV in adverts.

Target is to find at least 3 different percentages.

Extra challenge – work out what amount the percentage is equal to.

World War 2

find out the answer to the following questions about “The Battle of Britain”

1. where did it take place?
2. How many planes were involved?
3. how many British planes were destroyed?
4. How many German planes were destroyed?
5. who won?

Extra challenge – write a poem about WW2 – you could choose a specific events or person or country which was involved in WW2 or you could write an acrostic poem about WW2

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Catherine brought in these brilliant World War 2 photos of her great uncle.

This photograph shows him getting married in 1942 right in the middle of the war.

This shows his wife wearing his paratroopers outfit!

It must have been an exciting time as well as very worrying.

We had visitors from the Cumbernauld and Kilsyth care charity today.

They collect uniforms, clothes, prams etc which are unwanted and give them to parents in need in the Cumbernauld and Kilsyth area.

http://www.cumbernauldkilsythcare.org.uk/

They shared information about how running a charity is like running a business and how much time and effort they spend but also how rewarding it is.

Thanks very much!

We also finally started writing our stories! We have been planning them for ages and we are going to be working very hard over the next week to create a superb piece of writing.

And finally, the Phizz Wizzing Words books arrived! It contains stories by children from our class and also stories and poems from other schools across the UK.