Home Learning 8-3-2013

Wow, what a World Book Day. Some great visits from Julian Warrender and Jamie Thomson, two fabulous local authors. What did you enjoy about their visits? Have you read either of their books? What did you think? Add your comments to this post.

Your home learning task is to prepare for our assembly on Thursday. Get the costumes you need for your advert and collect an old plastic bottle to make into a version of your product.  The second part of the home learning is to have a look on the Children’s University website and further investigate our skeletons. What facts did you discover? Add them as comments to the post.

 

Healthy Drink Advertising

We’ve been looking at advertising healthy and energy giving drinks. Have a look at these quick posters we created using 2Publish Extra. Can you spy any persuasive features?

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Which posters did you like? What features do you think our class could add to improve our persuasive writing? Add comments to let us know.

 

Home Learning 1-3-2013

This week’s home learning task is to complete either the 100 Word or 5 Sentence Challenge. You can add your response to the blog as a comment, or you can write it in your book.

The 100 Word Challenge prompt for this week is quite a simple one. It is:

…the car stopped suddenly…

Make sure you keep to the 100 word limit and do go and visit at least 2 other pieces from different schools on the 100 Word blog.]

The 5 Sentence Challenge prompt is a picture. Try to write 5 interesting sentences about the image and see if you can vary the word you start the sentence with.

 

 

Pancake Madness & Fun at the Farm

Hope everyone has enjoyed their break and the extra day today. We had a busy week before half-term. We  had a great time on Pancake Day and have raised a good amount of money so far. The team competitions were won by the Red Team (most flips in a minute), and the Green Team (the pancake relay). Well done to both of the teams.Please remember to bring in all of your sponsorship money as soon as possible.

We also had a super time on Break Out Afternoon at the Farm. Thanks to the Cornwells and So Sussex for helping us to learn about the farm and how farming has changed,

 

Shape up to 2D Shapes

This week we’ll be looking at shapes, starting with a look at 2D shapes. Here are a few sites to have a look at and test your knowledge. Click on the numbers to give them a go. Add any new information or vocabulary you have used to the comments on this post.

 

Home Learning 15-02-13

Well done. You collected some great advert examples for your home learning task last week and we’ve been using them in class this week to develop our understanding of persuasive texts.

The holiday home learning task has two parts. The first is all about shape and the idea of symmetry.  I want you investigate which letters have lines of symmetry? Look at the letter A next to the text. Can you see the line of symmetry down the middle? But which other letters in the alphabet have lines of symmetry? If you are confused about symmetry, have a watch of the video linked here.

The second task is to have a go producing a poster advertising a place you visit during the holiday. Think about a snappy slogan and using bright bold lettering. Use adverts around your house to help inspire you.

 

Victorian Housing using SketchUp

Inspired by photos of Victorian social housing we have used SketchUp to create our own buildings. Have a look at them in this slideshow.

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