Crazy Christmas Science: It's SNOWING... in Class 5

We had fun this morning when it snowed in Class 5! We enjoyed it so much we visited other classes to show them our experiment.



Mr Short writes: it was interesting today, whilst setting up our experiment I asked the children to draw a picture of a scientist. Without exception every child drew a picture of a middle aged man, with crazy hair and glasses - and no, it wasn't me! We discussed reasons for not drawing a picture of a woman or someone younger. We decided that we shouldn't be put off science or anything else that people might not expect us to do because of our age and gender.

Year 4, 5 & 6 Quiz

Mixed teams - here are the results.

Biscuit Billionaires - 50
Eggheads – 49 ½
The Santanators - 48
The Diving Dolphins - 47
Ben’s Gang – 46 ½
Snowflakes – 45 ½
Team Spark - 45
Jammy Dodgers – 44
Lindel – 42 ½

A poem from our trip

THUMBELINA

Tiny princess,

Heroic journey,

Underground field mouse,

Miniature person,

Born in a flower,

Escaped from a toad,

Little person, big heart,

Icy sparrow just alive,

Nobody is shorter,

A handsome prince awaits.

Stockings Are Up!

Results - ABBA World Cup

Here are the most popular songs!

1st Mamma Mia

2nd Winner Takes It All

3rd S.O.S

4th Slipping Through My Fingers

Back soon...

Class 5 is closed today - business will resume as normal on Monday morning.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Nativity Stars

Class 5 review the school Nativity.

"The Wriggly Nativity was very good. You should have come to it. The angels were very good!"

"I really liked the Narrators!"

"The angels were really cute."

"I think that there was a lot of work put in to it! It was great."

"I think that the Wriggly Nativity was great, I thought the donkey was really good."

"I think the Wriggly Nativity was very good, the innkeeper I think was the best with the wife."

" I think the Wriggly Nativity was great and I especially liked the angels ."

"I think the Wriggly Nativity was great especially the donkey."

"I think the Wriggly Nativity was great,the donkey was great."

''I think the Wriggly Nativity was great, Mary was great.''

"I think the Wriggly Nativity was very funny."

Decorations

This week the children used the laptops to design their own Christmas paper, adding images and text however they saw fit. Next, they cut these designs into strips and made paper chains that stretched around the room. Other designs with larger images were used to create lanterns as presents for other classes. I was left to hang the rest as instructed! The children had complete control and Christmas in Class 5 feels very personal.

Mr Short

Comments

Happy Christmas!

It is now possible to add your comments - this helps to make the blogging experience a little more interactive for the class. Comments are checked before being published.

Mr Short

Twelve Days of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me , a partridge in a pear tree.

LOGO

Today in Maths we are using LOGO to draw polygons! Accuracy is the key, one little mistake and you will be scratching your heads.

The picture above was created by defining a circle. First type:
to circle
repeat 360[fd 1 rt 1]

Now type in circle to test your instructions. Did the circle draw okay?

Next, use the circle to draw a repeating pattern by entering these instructions:

to sunflower
circle
pu
rt 321
pd
sunflower
end

These just happen to be the instructions we tested this afternoon - what we were really interested in was creating regular polygons, but we couldn't resist repeating them to make interesting patterns! We might make Christmas decorations...

Please ask for permission before installing LOGO at home!

Mr Short

Keywords:
pu - pen up
pd - pen down
fd - forward
rt - right turn
lt - left turn
repeat
end

You can also change the background colour and the colour of the pen! Try going to the help menu and clicking on demo - LOGO can produce some tricky designs.