Results!

A really close week of voting! One of the favourites has now dropped out!

Mamma Mia and Slipping Through My Fingers were 50-50 most of the week but eventually Mamma Mia edged ahead to win (53-47).

Winner Takes It All has beaten S.O.S in another close battle (56-44).

We now move into the final - it could go either way!

Advent Wish

I pray for the family I once knew.
I give love to them, Hope to them.

Care for them.

I wish they were here for Christmas.



Year 6 girl

Christmas Lights

My Mum and Nanny are raising money for the school by lighting christmas lights. If you would like to see them come to Mays Crescent on the 1st December.

See you there!

Who is Alan Taylor?

Who is Alan Taylor? A gingerbread billionaire with electric muscles who thinks that money can buy friendship!

5 of the most expensive things in Alan Taylor's mansion
(You will just have to buy the book to find out the other 5!)

1. Portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci painted by Mona Lisa.

2. Suit of armour worn by Beethoven in a fight against Mozart.

3. Valuable golden peanut.

4. Machine that can video your dreams.

5. Signed photo of the Loch Ness Monster.

yum yum

My mum creates art on fruit - how cute! What will she do next?

Class 5

ICT for Monday afternoon

Step 1: change all of the text to black and check the spelling

Step 2: change the font for the four sentences below

This would be an amazing fint for a ghost story

This would be an amazing fint for something about Art

This would be an amazing fint for a poem about flowers

This would be an amazing fint for a sign about handwriting

Step 3: insert a picture
Insert a small picture of a flower below (resize if necessary).

Step 4: use synonyms and columns

Use synonyms to change these 3 words then put them into 3 columns

Tired

Difficult

Storm

Step 5: find and replace

Use ctrl + f to change amazing to excellent

World Premiere - Making Sandwiches

Below is just a taste of what Class 5 & Class 1 got up to on Wednesday. The pictures used are a small selection from Class 5's camera monitor that day..

Results of the Quarter Final

Mamma Mia beat Money Money Money (51-49)
S.O.S beat Take A Chance On Me (62-38)
Slipping Through My Fingers beat I Have A Dream (72-28)
Winner Takes It All beat Fernando (83-17)

Suffix Test!

To follow up on Friday's suffix word work click here to play an interactive game on the BBC

The dragon is following me!

Today Year 5 visited us and we followed complicated instructions to fold and make an optical illusion. If you would also like to try click here to go to Grand Illusions.

You will need to fold it very carefully before closing one eye and moving side to side for the illusion to take place!

Enjoy

Mr Short

ABBA World Cup - Round 1 Results

Winner Takes It All beat Under Attack (78-21)
Slipping Through My Fingers beat Voulez Vous (76-23)
I Have A Dream beat Thank You For The Music (52-48)
Take A Chance On Me beat Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!(62-38)
S.O.S beat Waterloo (60-40)
Money Money Money beat Does Your Mother Know (76-24)
Fernando beat Chiquitita (51-49)
Mamma Mia beat Dancing Queen (52-48)

It looks like Winner Takes It All could be one of the favourites but it was only up against Under Attack in Round 1. How will it cope against a song like S.O.S which beat the popular Waterloo? Will Fernando receive late votes to squeeze through again?

A song to watch out for in the Quarter Final is Slipping Through My Fingers - it may be the dark horse in the competition as it easily beat Voulez Vous. Perhaps people are remembering their favourite parts from Miss Selby & Miss Dinardo's Mamma Mia production? The quarter finals will be posted later today and will last until Friday 23rd - keep voting!

The Stickers

Class 5 get stickers for things like doing good work or being helpful. We sometimes get them for being monitor as well. We each have a paper cloud that we put the stickers on. When we have 10 we get a certificate and we stick the stickers on it.

R.E this afternoon

Follow the link below to the Dreidel template and print a copy for each person in your group (ICT)


Make the Dreidel (Literacy - following instructions, Maths - Shape & Space)

http://www.akhlah.com/holidays/hanukkah/hanukkah_crafts/dreidel_decoration.htm

Fractions

Here are your links for Maths this morning:

Race against the clock to match equivalent fractions!

http://www.learningplanet.com/sam/ff/index.asp

Equivalents - a visual game

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/equivalentfractions/index.html

Dinosaur memory fraction game!

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/con_math/g04c20.html

Abba world cup rules

We are doing a vote on sixteen Abba songs. We are going to narrow the votes down round by round. If people would like to vote please feel welcome. There is one winner only so choose carefully.

Find & Replace

Think about any targets that you may have from last week (read my comments in your ICT books first).

Please copy the two nursery rhymes below and paste into Microsoft Word. Your aim is to use Find & Replace to change the mistakes (the shortcut is Ctrl + f).

Change the font to Garamond, size 16 and black. Choose an appropriate picture to insert for both rhymes.

James and Joan

James and Joan went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water
James fell down and broke his crown
And Joan came tumbling after


Harold Dumpty

Harold Dumpty sat on a wall
Harold Dumpty had a great fall
All the king’s horses
And all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Harold together again

ABBA World Cup

Coming soon...

Andrew Goldsworthy & Me

I read about Andy Goldsworthy, so I decided to make a collection. In class I used some pictures I took to make a video.

Class 5

(I'm really proud of this pupil - she has used ICT & Art to inspire everyone in class including myself. Mr Short)

ICT: Monday afternoon

Below you will find some information all about the author Andy Stanton.

Your aim today is to use a spellcheck, but you will need other skills.

Your task:

1. Copy the information below (including the title)



2. Paste the information into Microsoft Word



3. Use a spellcheck (remember that some words might not show up in a spellcheck so read it to see if it makes sense)



4. Change the font to size 14 Trebuchet



5. Change the colour to black, add your name and print out.

Andy Stanton

Andy Stanton liives in London but he stedied English at Oxford until they threw him out. Hea has ben a stand-up comedian, a film script reeader, a cartoonist and lots of other fings. He has many intorests, but best of all he likes cartoons, books and mewsic (even jazz). One day he’d like to live in New York or Berlin becaose he likes to be different. His favourite saying is ‘Good evening’ and his favourite word is ‘captain’. Andy has now written more than onne book, but less than ten. We are reading ‘You’re a bad man, Mr Gum’ in cllass.

Instead of Halloween

I went to a Light Party. At the Light Party I drew on a glass cup, played parachute football, did sculpture making with playdough and EVERYONE got to dip a biscuit/marshmallow in the

white chocolate fountain.

By class 5

Book on a door

Do you know which classes are behind these two doors?

Pyjama Day for Children in Need

On the first of November 2007 it was book week and we came to school in pyjamas and each teacher read a bedtime story to every class. The books were We are Going on a bear hunt, The Gruffalo, Hairy Mcleary, Guess how much I love you! and Not now Bernard.

By class 5