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The children have enjoyed making their own word searches online and will have even more fun next week when they try to complete each others in class. Well done you all worked really well in ICT today! Click on the link below to make the word searches at home for your families. http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/WordSearchSetupForm.asp Sparts week is the week beginning 2nd July 2008. Year 5 have decided on the theme of Africa. We will be making tribal masks, drawing tigers in pastels, creating an African freize and tie dying. Please collect newspapers and old magazines. Swimming will take place as normal on Tuesday morning and will be the last session this year. Sports day will be on Tuesday afternoon weather permitting. Please return your medical forms for shropshire a.s.a.p You must include the date of your last tetanus injection and your medical number, otherwise you will not be able to go. To Reece GOOD LUCK FROM CLASS 8 There will be no swimming the first week back after half term, Tuesday 3rd June 2008. Class 8 won playground golden time again with class 6. Well done all of you! We are going for a hat trick! This weeks Well Done cards went to Max and Mimi for their excellent reading test results and Sophie for making the biggest improvement in her reading age. Well done Class 8 you lined up very well this week and I was very proud of you all when we drew with Mr B and Class 5 to get Golden Time. I’m sure we can win next week!!
At Havering Park we went minibeast hunting. We used a net to catch them. We also saw some horse’s we had to move out of the way for them to go past.
Please use cut out pictures of torches from magazines to make a poster of as many different types of torches. This will help you when you begin designing your own torch. Also, please start collecting items for making your torch - bottles, boxes, tubes, tin foil etc.
If possible please bring in, for Monday 12/5/08, some examples of fruits with seeds e.g. apple, tomato, cherry, strawberry, avocado, mango and any seeds such as dandelion, poppy, sweetcorn, wheat, sunflower.
SATS for the whole school will be taking place during the week beginning 12.5.08. Here are some fun websites that might be helpful if you would like to put in some extra work. Click on the links below: English http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/ http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.html Maths 25.4.08 - Matthew E, Adam, Luke, Reece 2.5.08 - Issie, Frankie, Jack G
Class 8 will be visiting Havering Park on Friday 9th May in the afternoon. Remember to bring your packed lunches, wet weather jackets and suitable footwear. You can wear your park clothing to school on Friday you do not need to come to school in uniform.
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Mrs Carter’s Maths Group Homework Week Beginning 28.4.08Posted by: parklandsclass8 in UncategorizedHomework this week is revision for SATS. Please follow the link below and go on some of the interactive games and quizzes to improve your general Maths, especially Mental Maths.
Follow the links below to see and hear more of Jay Sean. http://www.myspace.com/jayseanbeats Well done to Katy C and Connor for there well done cards! Keep up the good work Well done to the winners of the Caterpillar Reading Challenge who all managed to read at least 5 times a week last term. Vikesh, Mimi, Matthew H and Adam. Keep reading everyone! In class maths today we learnt about rotational symmetry. We used a web site to make some amazing shapes and had great fun too! Click on the link below to try this at home. We have been looking at what life was like in Victorian times and as homework we made posters about a famous Victorian. We hope you like looking at some of the good examples. Eddie and Jack W received well done cards for there spring scenes painted in watercolours. Please remember to start collecting items to make your torches - kitchen roll tubes, pringle lids, boxes and things for decoration. You need to be able to cut into the materials so make sure they are not too stiff.
National Year of Reading is a campaign to highlight the enjoyment of reading and its benefits, especially to reluctant readers. Class 8 will be taking part in different challenges during the rest of the school year. They have started with the reading caterpillar challenge. Everybody is being challenged to read at least 5 times a week to an adult and their caterpillar will move forward on the chart. Winners will be announced at the end of every half term. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!! Mrs Carter had a birthday on the 18.03.08. We all tried to gess but in the end we ended up wishing her a very happy birthday, but I, Katy C am still thinking how old she is. So if you gess tell me and I shall write it on the blog. Mimi and Luke received well done cards on Friday 14.3.08 for their watercolour daffodil paintings. The week before Mrs Carter gave Connor a well done card for creating suspense in his story opening and Claudia for being the Fraction Wall champion and her participation in the dance workshop.
Class 8 had to join Mr Steven’s class to learn the last dance, We Go Together, from the movie Grease because the teacher was running late. Can you spot the Class 8 pupils? We had a lot to learn in a short time but all did very well. We have read The BFG and listened to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on tape. All the children have been inspired by Roald Dahl and I hope they will continue with this new found enthusiasm for reading. Sadly, we are coming to the end of the unit of work. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading and teaching the writing of such a great author. The children are now in the midst of writing their own stories, trying to follow some of Dahl’s writing rules, and I can’t wait to read their writing. They are so enthusiatic! Keep logging into this page to see if your writing appears on the blog. Connor’s opening created suspense with his clever use of short sentences. Can you spot them? One dark night, Jack was in his bedroom awake. “I can’t get to sleep,” said Jack. He went to the window. He saw something. It was coming closer and closer. Jack was not scared . He got his shoes, put them on, the big thing was there. It grabbed him. Jack said, “Put me down!” Matthew H’s story opening - Claudia and the Water Horse Suddenly, there was a flash of lightning, then Claudia woke straight up .It was a dark creepy night when everyone was asleep. She got out of bed and suddenly the floor creaked loudly, Claudia hesitated she saw a light on downstairs. “Who’s that?”echoed the loud boomy voice of her dad. “Claudia,” she whispered back. “Well get back to bed then!”shouted back her dad. But Claudia didn’t she stayed out and and crept towards the window . It was twelve o’clock in the morning. She thought to herself, “I wonder if this is the witching hour?”she whispered. There was a big fire in the boys toilet and there was three fire engines. People were crying because they were worried about their brothers and sisters. The next day the entire school couldn’t go to school because the boys didn’t have any toilets. The following children recieved Well Done Cards. Sean, Phoebe, Issie, Max & Harvey for converting g to kg & reading scales. Charlie & Reece for work in class English. Welcome class 8’s blog.We hope you will enjoy the posts we will put up for you. In the meentime here are some websites you might like to try out: thank you for viewing Max and Katy
We are all looking forward to Wednesday March 5th when we will be taking part in a dance workshop. The dance we are going to learn is from the end of GREASE - We Go Together. Sing along to the lyrics and watch the video. WE GO TOGETHER We go together like ramma lamma lamma ka dinga da dinga dong We’re one of a kind like dip da dip da dip do whap de dobby do When we go out a night (oh-h oh) Ramma lamma lamma ka dingity ding da dong We’re for each other like womp bop a looma a womp bam boom We’ll always be together Mrs Carter and Class 8 pupils welcome positive comments from children, brothers, sisters, parents, grandparents, friends and neighbours. Class 8 will be visiting the Victorian School Museum in Braintree on Tuesday March 11th, with Class 7. Don’t forget to organise your Victorian costumes and be on your best behaviours the teacher is very strict, she has a cane!! Click on the link below for further information about the museum. If you are a parent or grandparent and would like to accompany us on our trip, as a helper, please contact Mrs Carter via your childs reading record, your help would be much appreciated. http://www.enjoybraintree.co.uk/Museums-And-Culture/Braintree-District-Museum/School-Visits.aspx Examples of Victorian Costumes Please don’t forget there is a teacher training day next Tuesday 26th February so there will be no school.
Mrs Carter awarded well done cards to the following people:- Luke Bentley and Chloe Yau for their great giant desriptions! Maliha Reza and Charlie Bruce in Mrs Carter’s English group got them for their drama work to produce a T.V interveiw. Well done Sophie Honeywell for being a caring friend. We have been reading The BFG in class English and looking at the work of the significant author Roald Dahl. We created our own giants and wrote our own scene. Chloe’s Giant - Human Gobbler Suddenly as the BFG was drinking the last drop of Frobscuttle there was a rumble and another and another. “Oh no,” shouted the BFG. It was the HUMAN GOBBLER. Just as the BFG had finished that sentence the rock had been rolled over from the cave entrance. The giant that had big yellow crooked teeth and he was probably three times as big as the BFG. His hands and feet where like six giant bolders put together! “He was called the Human Gobbler because he would gobble five or more humans at once and will not even have to chew them!”exclaimed the BFG. The Human Gobbler’s eyes were as red as the sun itself and his nose was as sharp as a knife. As Sophie looked out she felt her eyes were going to pop out! Luke’s Giant - The Serpent Seaker Suddenly the ground started to shake and small water spouts popped up in a circle, with a giant one in the middle. Then a giant smashed through the earth, it was the Serpent Seaker. “Why you here Serpent Seaker!” shouted the BFG as he was blown back by the Serpent Seaker’s roar from his dragon head. “Catching prey,” hissed the Serpent Seaker staring at Sophie spinning around on the table. “Then take this!” the BFG shouted suddenly and flung the snozcumber at his face but the Serpent Seaker burnt it to a cinder with fire. “Looks like I’ll have a double,” hissed the Serpent Seaker as water dripped from his scaly arms and legs. The Serpent Seaker started breathing fire all over the cave like millions of berserk fireworks. The BFG ran for the boulder and ducked as the Serpent Seaker’s slash split the boulder into three. Click on the link below and follow the slideshow through which explains the method used in class. Please leave your comments letting me know how useful you found this resource. http://www.slideshare.net/teresa105/y5-subtraction-complimentary-method-counting-up/ Thanks to parents and children for all your lovely gifts and kind christmas wishes. I hope you had a very happy christmas and wish you all a happy new year.
Don’t forget there will be Christmas dinner, a school disco and non-uniform on the last day. School finishes at the normal time. Class 8 are hoping to have their party on Friday morning! I will be providing sweets and drinks as the children are having christmas dinner that day and I would not like to spoil their appetites with too much party food. |
