Week 5: some highlights!

Here's some of the activities we have been participating in this week:

Friday 24th September 2010
Week three summary in 5K
(Arighni from the previous week!)
This week we have done much more than the last blog. We have made and preformed our own play script. We preformed Nicolas Nickelby and we adapted Oliver Twist. We have written our own play scripts. Today Erika has done a performance on the achievement assembly. We watched the year 2,s dance about where the wild things are. Yesterday we learnt new French words. We did history with a visitor called Terry Wad. That’s it.
By Arighni

Week five summary in 5K
Achievement assembly
Today we have had our achievement assembly.
Assia had the best recount of the ragged school.
She had really brilliant adjectives. There was a girl in year two who wrote a story about a funny parrot. There were all very good. We all had a great time finding out what children did in each year group.I wish you were there two.
By Arighni

Choir
Miss Allin had started to teach us choir again an there is a lot of people we have learn a lot of songs like melons and in the autumn lives start falling
By precious

Miss Allin has started choir again and I’m in it, there is loads of new people and new songs and I herd the last year choir songs and I think the songs now are better. It is on Wednesday, half 3 till half 4. the songs we learn are:- water melon seller,
By Erika

IN CHOIR WE LEARN TO SING A SONG CALLED MELONS AND WE DONE A SONG IN ASSEMBIY CALLED HARVEST TIME AND THE TEACHER IS MS ALLIN AND MS HUNT MS TUCK

By Shikaila

Week 5 summary
In music we are doing Egyptian drumming with a drum called a Jeba*. You have to lift it of the ground for a better sound. If you don’t you still get a sound but not as fantastic. You can play it with 2 fingers to get a more bouncy sound or as many fingers as you want. We also listened to some famous composers music on the Jeba. Not all of us had a Jeba some of us got normal drums.
By Jeevan
[*djembe]

The Ragged school museum
THIS IS ABOUT MY OUTSANDING TRIP TO THE RAGGED SCHOOL MEUSEM (Museum).THIS PLACE WAS BUILT MORE THAN 130 YEARS AGO TO EDUCATE POOR VICTORIAN CHILDREN BY A VERY GENOROUS MAN CALLED DR.BERNARDO.AFTER 1901 THIS PLACE WAS TURNED INTO A MEUSEM.
FIRST OF ALL WE WENT WITH COLIN (WHO IS A VERY FUNNY MAN)TO LOOK AT A VICTORIAN KITCHEN.HE SHOWED US A MANGLE WHICH WAS A PRETTY DANGEROUS MACHINE.THEN HE SHOWED US THE LONG SOUP THEY USED AND HOW THEY WASHED THEIR CLOTHES AND OTHER STUFF.
By Bilal

My 5th week in year 5
In year 5 I have been learning in science that shadow only came out when the sun came out on Thursday.
By Chloe

5ks Ragged School trip
This trip is all about 5ks petrifying and nice trip and nightmare Victorian Ragged school lesson!.
We had to have our own Victorian names and dress as a poor Victorian child.
By Aadil



RAGGED SCHOOL
On Thursday my class and I went to the amazing Ragged School in Bethnal Green. When we arrived at the Ragged School we were early so we played in the park opposite.
By Amritpal

The British Empire

This week we were learning about The British Empire. I learnt that there were 71 countries and Queen Victoria ruled all of them, such as India, Jamaica, Austrailia and Nigeria. I also learnt that traders went on a boat risking there life just for money. Many of the traders did not get to the destination caused by heavy and intense waves. Queen Victoria ruled so many countries so there will be back up for war and to be able to transport valuable goods, such as food and money. Today we celebrate by playing in the Commonwealth games but only countries that were in the British Empire may compete.
By Taran

Week 5 in year 5k: Maths
In the past few days we were doing maths. We were focussing on written methods with addition and subtraction. We did decimals that included money here is an example:

1463
+ 6821

____
7984
Make sure you do the correct place value
By Nafisah

Our harvest assembly
In our harvest assembly the class when to put there food on a table for Pakistan people. After the people in choir song two song of harvest. Mrs Allin talked to us about harvest and how is it important to religions and how the Pakistan people need food
By Nicole.

Week 5 Summary: The empire:

This week in year 5 we done PHSE with Miss S we learnt about The British Empire. We had to draw a map of the world, and colour in the countries that The British Empire ruled. Some of the countries were India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Egypt, and South Africa there are other countries.
By Amraaj

Achievement assembly
Today I showed the school my recount. It was about my amazing day at the ragged school. I enjoyed the classroom best even though I was paralyzed with fear. I still enjoyed it.
By Assia


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(ICT reminder: Remember to acknowledge where you got your pictures and information from!)

Maths next week

In Maths next week (week beginning October 11th) we will be revising our division facts and division strategies.

SO practice your timestables to gold level so you can use these facts to help you!

Earth and space

In science we are learning about Earth and space. In art, we worked in pairs to create large paintings of the planets.
Click here or here

to practice ordering the planets and revise some other things about the Earth, Sun and Moon and planets.

BUT remember, though we painted flat circular versions of the planets, they are all in fact WHICH shape????

English recounts

We are working on recounts at the moment in our English lessons and will be working on these for the next couple of weeks. We will be looking at diaries, biographies, summarising the main points of a text in note form and planning our own based on our experiences.

Here are the checklists we would use for an effective recount:

L.O. I can write an interesting recount.

CHECKLIST: Does my work include the following features?

- Written in the past tense.
- My recount begins with an introduction by setting the scene- who, what, where, when, why
- Includes names of people and places
- Is written in chronological order
- Uses a closing statement/conclusion that sums up the writing.
- Uses time connectives/phrases, e.g. First, After, Next, Afterwards, Soon, Later, Meanwhile
- Includes detailed description of setting that interests the reader. (using interesting vocab)
- Is written in paragraphs, using a change of paragraph for a change of time/subject.
- Is interesting!
- Uses fullstops and capital letters appropriately.

Awesome adverbs

We have been working on using adverbs in our work, particularly playscripts but they crop up in EVERY piece of good writing! But what are they? Adverbs are words that tell us more about verbs and how they are done....they add information to the verb.
(A verb is a 'doing' word or a 'being' word, e.g. 'walk', 'feel' so 'I walk mournfully', tells you that I walked sadly)

We have made an interactive display of some useful AND interesting adverbs to help us in our work if we get stuck for ideas. If you are still not confident with using adverbs then click here to try some BBC quizzes or worksheets on adverbs.

Can you say you have achieved the target of using interesting adverbs in every piece of writing?

What happens to the shadows throughout the day?

5K have spent today investigating what happens to the length and position of shadows throughout the day.

At half an hour intervals, 2 children went out with the following equipment to draw a chalk line on the shadow and measure and record its length using a metre stick. As you can see, the length of the shadow continually changed.

Can you explain what has happened to the shadow? What does this tell us about shadows during the day?