Les colours

In French we have been greeting each other and deciding what we like and don't like. This week we revised our colours as well.
 Quelle coleur que t'aime et n'aime pas?

Our learning about Sikhism begins

Learn more about Sikhism by going on the link below-

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/homework/religion/sikhism.html

Day and night

We learnt how the Earth has Day and Night. To illustrate this we made these cool interactive and annotated diagrams!

Spellings set Friday 26th September

These spellings were set Friday 26th September. They look easy but all need to be spelt correctly in context.

"They're going to put their bags over there."

"I went to the beach and saw two dogs, it was two too many!"

Tag Rugby - An Introduction

This video gives a basic introduction to the rules of Tag Rugby

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk-v2uNLDro

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Rookie Rugby - Hot Potato - YouTube

In our Tag Rugby sessions, we will also use this warm up.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hH0VuSprcA8

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Rookie Rugby - Star Drill - YouTube

This is one of the warm up games we will be doing in our Friday tag rugby sessions.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lsZIk-GWxC4

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Easy way to learn the bus stop method of division

This is an easy way to learn the bus stop method of division.

Look at this site and play the first game. Have fun!

www.bgfl.org/.../ks2/maths/school_booster/busstopdivision.html

Harvest Samba

Milly's magic

Look what fantastic work Milly did over the weekend - if you want to know anything about our Solar system, she is the one to ask!

Well done Milly.

Investigating shadow lengths through the day

As it was a brilliant sunny day, we set up an experiment in the playground. We first predicted what we thought would happen. Then came back at intervals throughout the day.

We shall be using the data to plot a line graph later in the week. Watch this space for more photos.

Here are our results.

Explaining Explanations

We looked at the structure and language features of explanation writing today. We found the structure is like the instructions we looked at last week but there  are some language features that are new that we need to learn about.

What makes good in our multiplication grids?

We have written instructions for how to do the year 5 Poplar multiplication grids.  

This week time how quickly you can do a grid!

These are the spellings due in Thursday 25th September, to be tested Friday.

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Big Instructional Writing

Today we have gathered all our knowledge of What Makes Good Instructional Writing and written some recipes to be proud of! 

How do we get the seasons?

We have looked at how Earth has an imaginary axis running through it from the North Pole to the South Pole. It is also tilted to 23 degrees and this is why we have seasons. As we orbit the sun, when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted towards the sun, it is closer to the sun so it is Summer. When the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the sun, it is further away from the sun so it is Winter.

Scaling recipes

We had great fun investigating what would happen if we needed our scone recipe to make different amounts of scones. 

The first group had a recipe that made 4 scones. They looked at what would happen if they wanted to make 8 scones, 10 scones or 12 scones.

The second group had a recipe that made 8 scones. They looked at what would happen if they wanted to make 12 scones or 2 scones.

Catch the scones before they're ...sssscone! (RRS)

The children had great fun going in groups to the kitchen where they read and followed a recipe to

make some delicious scones in preparation for our Big Writing tomorrow - A big thank you to Mrs B and Mrs M.

This weeks spellings are Topic words.

Mad for multiplication

We've been looking at how we can use times tables we already know to make new ones! The secret is out - we ca use doubling. Here are some examples.

Longitude and Latitude Lines

Today we learnt all about the imaginary lines that people use to map places in the world.

These lines are measured in degrees.

Try this fun game at http://www.kidsgeo.com/geography-games/latitude-longitude-map-game.php

Hit the Button - Quick fire maths practice for 5-11 year olds

Have a go at these mental maths games.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button


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Colons and a happy classroom

Ingredients to make a happy classroom

Rowan learnt how to use colons in a list today. Lots of fantastic ideas about what is needed to make a 'happy classroom'.

It's a great big solar system! (RRS)

We've been learning about the Solar System and making up mnemonics to try to remember their order! Then we worked out a scale so we could draw all the planets on the play ground.

Compare the sizes of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars to Jupiter.

Welcome to the new school year in Poplar and Rowan Classes

We've had an amazing start to the term! This week we have written about our best holiday moments, thought about numbers in the millions and started our topic " Out of this World " brainstorming about space and imagining and describing aliens!