Creation Animation

Have a look at this post on the 2Simple Talk blog highlighting a great animation by ES and BDG. There were some great examples of work by others in the lesson too. We’ll post those on our blog soon.

 

Home Learning 23-06-2011

Well done with the jumping challenge, from our discussions today and looking at your work, a lot of you managed to work out the mystery distances. We’ll need great mathematicians next week as we embark on a week of sport, culminating in Sports Day on Thursday 30th June. So that everyone can participate, can everyone have PE kit in school for every day, including a team-coloured t-shirt for Sports Day.

Your home learning task is to research the holiday destination you have chosen. Find out about where it is, what you can do there, what the best time of year to go is. You only need to research it, as we’ll be creating the travel guides in class on Friday. Remember, you can use the internet, but also libraries and your own general knowledge.

 

Team Poetry Challenge

This morning we had a team poetry challenge. Inspired by these photos of the local area we wrote poetry as a team, combining ideas and collaborating to produce one piece of work.  Listen to these quick recordings we made.  

Which do you think was the best? Add your comments to this post or vote on the poll below.

 

Weir Metaphors

We have been looking at metaphors.  Have a look at this poem, inspired by the local weir, we wrote in the plenary today.  What do you think? Would you make any changes to the metaphors?

The reeds are the pure white moon against the nights sky of the water.

The algae is a lime green blanket resting on the sparkling water.

The great curves of the water are big icicles hanging off the concrete brink.

The iris leaves are green flames rising from the murky abyss.

 

Home Learning 17-06-2011

What a great day we’ve had, fabulous poetry, meeting new friends, and some excellent maths problem solving. This week’s home learning task will continue from the problem solving we  started today.

Your task is to solve the Long Jump Challenge linked.

 

Great Weather Reports

Wow, what fabulous weather reports you’ve produced.  We’re going to use the data you’ve collected later in the week for some data handling, so if you still haven’t brought in your weather diary do so quickly.  It was great to see the different ways in which you presented the information.  Some of the work was sent to the Weather Watch blog, so check that out to have a look at some of your responses.