Glenaire Y5

Famous Victorian: Mary Seacole

2012-01-27T18:28:00.000Z

There are some very famous black people from history. This week, find out about Mary Seacole.

Click the Learn area first.

Then play the Object Game.

Post some some facts about her in a comment on this blog.

Can you answer these questions?
When was she born?
When did she die?

What did she do?

What did she looklike?

If you happen to have managed ALL of that, try the Times Table Competition in the Learn area of our website.

Children at work

2012-01-20T18:21:00.000Z

Watch all the videos about children at work here.

Watch this one too.

What about this job for 5p a day?

In Saltaire, there was a mill. Have a look at the jobs you could have been doing.

What about a job in the coal mine at 5 years old?

Hear an 8 year old's opinion about it.

Now see how conditions have changed since these times...

Still got time? Add a comment saying what you think about children having to work and the jobs they had to do.

Can you use When If After While? You will both earn classdojo points if you can!

If you happen to have managed ALL of that, try the Times Table Competition in the Learn area of our website.

How would you feel?

2012-01-13T18:00:00.000Z

Take another look at Queen Victoria & her family. Hover over the pictures to find out who they are.

Post a comment to say how you would feel to be one of the people in the photo. Use at least TWO of your target openers... When If After While

How would you feel?
Why?
Which clothes do you like/dislike?

If you only used one (or none!) of your target openers, go back and add another comment.

Once you have commented with at least 2 target openers, go to Education City: My City and practise the fractions games.

Victorian Inventions 1837- 1901

2011-12-19T17:56:00.003Z

Watch this video about how camera technology was invented.

1. Look carefully at the Victorian inventions above. You have 4 votes. Choose which you think you would miss the most if they had never been invented - use the poll below.

2. Have a look at more inventions here from Victorian times.

3. Post a comment on which things you thought would have been invented before 1837. Why did you think this?

Try out our spellings area

2011-12-12T10:01:00.001Z

Put your words for this week on the spellings area to help you learn them. Spellingcity is a new link - do you like it?

If you don't have any (or many), try these Christmas words

trickier:
Christmas
reindeer
sleigh
bauble

easier:
snowman
snowflake
present
tree
lights

Worsbrough quadblog & Mangahigh

2011-12-03T15:12:00.001Z

Go to the Worsbrough Primary blog. They have a whole section on Sumdog. This is the link I've sent you to. Share what you love about Sumdog and ask them questions about e.g.

Favourite games
Why it's good
When you play
animal ranks
favourite outfits

Once you've posted a comment, enjoy playing Mangahigh - I've set you some new challenges.

Try to use Sumdog as much as you can AT HOME this week. There is a UK competition that we are in - prizes for the highest number of questions answered

Looking at persuasive vocabulary

2011-11-29T08:23:00.001Z

It was announced last weekthat a footballer in the Premier League is being paid £50,000 PER WEEK! Alocal radio station has been reporting on the story and interviewed Liverpool'smanager to find out his point of view. Copy this piece of writing into a blogcomment. Find the persuasive wordsin his argument and add 2 stars either side of the word or phrase so it standsout. I've done the first one for you:

I believe that footballers should bepaid a **decent** wage. Some people think that footballers donot work hard enough to earn real wages. However, the real truth is thatfootballers train extremely hard, not only during the season but also in theirholiday times. What is more, they are often required to play three or fourmatches per week. Another reason that they are highly paid is that they aremaking money for the club. People pay to see skilled players and buy shirtswith their names on it. This brings in lots of money for the club to spend onimproving the ground and buying new players. Surely everyone must agree thatthe players should get a share of it?

Poor wages mean poor quality players. As a result of this, football matcheswould be less entertaining. Is this what you want to see?

2011-11-27T17:07:00.001Z

This is your last chance to blog on Thistly Meadows' blog - leave them 3 comments that make their day.

Once you've done that, practise your times tables on the Learn Tables area of our website. (Go to Learn More, Learn Tables)

Persuade the opposite!

2011-11-20T11:29:00.001Z

Welcome quadbloggers! Glenaire

We'd love you all to take part in this post and the one below with our survey on it. We're learning how to persuade and showing that one picture can look very different with a few carefully chosen words.

Have a look at the python captions and see if you can create captions with the other creatures.

1. Pet python rests happily in tank.
2. Starving python kept in terrible conditions.

Try with these pictures...

gecko

tarantula

terrapin

Quadblogging Survey

2011-11-18T14:49:00.001Z

Hi quadblogging team

We're going to be handling data in a few weeks time and would like some interesting information from real people. Please would you complete our survey and if you have time, add a comment about other questions you think we could ask in future.

You will need the password from your teacher.

Thank you!

(Glenaire, once you've polled, enjoy Sumdog time!)

3 things to do this week...

2011-11-11T17:27:00.001Z

In your independent ICT time this week, you have 3 things to do:

1. Visit our quadblogging team Brookburn Primary and make some comments that will make the class smile and feel good about their work. Can you add to their poetry? They've written some fabulous phrases.

2. Vote on the picture you would most like to write about in our next 100 word challenge.

3. Enjoy our Times Tables pages on our website. Practise YOUR times tables targets.

Quadblog then Sumdog

2011-11-07T08:06:00.002Z

In your independent ICT time this week, you have 2 things to do:

1. Visit our quadblogging team Worsbrough Common Primary and make some comments that will make the class smile and feel good about their work. They have posted a 100 Word Challenge that they would like to comment on AND try.

2. Enjoy Sumdog - how many points can you earn - split your time fairly with your partner!

Welcome back!

2011-10-27T13:02:00.001+01:00

This week, explore our quadblogging partner's blog site in Leicester... Thistly Meadow Primary.

Write at least 3 positive, encouraging comments for them that they will smile and enjoy when they read. Try asking a question so that they reply to you.

Once you've done that, explore the safety part of our website to remind yourself how to stay safe online.

Thank you Quadblogging Team

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We've had a great week and thoroughly enjoyed seeing all of your comments. We loved your work and were really excited when you commented on ours.

See you all again after half term.

Thank you!
Mrs Cole & the Year 5 team.

100 word challenge

2011-10-01T17:32:00.004+01:00

Welcome to our new quadblogging team from Manchester, Barnsley and Leicester.

We would like our own Y5 class and our quadblogging team to contribute to our 100 word challenge which is inspired by our reading of and work so far on The BFG.

We'd love you to comment on our own 100 word stories if you get the chance too!

Who's won the giant competition?

2011-09-23T11:28:00.005+01:00

Have a look at the current results. Can you work out the top 5 giants? You have one last challenge Y5 to give your giant the journey of a lifetime! You may not have the most votes but your writing may well persuade me that yours is the one to travel.

Describe your giant and tell me why you think it should go geocaching.

Remember try your best with your spellings but I'd rather read wow vocabulary with a few errors than perfectly spelled potato words!

Make sure you tell me the name of your giant from the list below.

Go Global!

2011-09-16T17:49:00.004+01:00

Click the middle of our www.3x3links.com/glenaire website to go to the Glenaire website.

Use the menu in dark green on the left to get to Topic Boxes. Click each word in the menu that is circled in red in the picture above.

Find our Go Global topic box.

Try the online map games!

Help! Are you leaving me?

2011-09-12T16:45:00.001+01:00

Please make a wow sentence about this new fabulous giant. It wants to travel the world too! What do you like about it?

Independent ICT time: Stay safe online

2011-09-09T17:20:00.000+01:00

First of all, scroll down to the 2 blogs below - one has a slide show of your giants, the other is the voting (don't vote now - I'll tell you when!)

Now, explore the e-safety part of our website www.3x3links.com/glenaire - click the left hand side where it says Safety is THE most important thing online.

There are games to play and videos to watch. Make sure you know how to stay safe.

Finished? Add a comment to this blog using explaining some of the things you've learnt. Try to open your sentences with When If After While

8 giants will travel the world by geocache. Help us choose which ones! Tick all your favourites then scroll down to vote.

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Enjoy our new giants for The BFG

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Welcome Year 5!

2011-08-31T17:56:00.001+01:00

We hope you are enjoying your first week back and are looking forward to the term ahead. Today, we'd like you to get used to blogging while practising your writing skills.

Below this post is a link which says 0 comments. Click it and you can add a comment which gets sent to Mrs Potts & Mrs Cole.

When they've seen your comment, they publish it and 0 comments will change to 1 comment. The world can then see your message!

When you're ready, click the comments button and begin blogging! Try answering all of these questions in your comment. Try to put the question in the answer so people know what you're talking about! Before you PUBLISH YOUR COMMENT, check with your teacher first that you've answered everything.

What excites you about this term?
What would you like to do more of in school?
How can we help you learn?
What have you done well at this week?
What do you think your targets might be for literacy and maths?

Meet Doobee

2011-08-31T17:46:00.000+01:00

Geocaching and QR Codes

2011-07-16T16:38:00.002+01:00

Use this website that Kaif found to help you answer questions from our brilliant geocaching session with Lord Langley. Use the menu down the left hand side of the website to help find answers.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/mountains.htm

How to change the design of the QR code

Use this website to make your QR code. Make sure you have the part of the question in the answer so people know what you were asked to find out! Select the TEXT option and write in your question and answer.

http://qrcode.kaywa.com/

How to change the colour of your QR code

 Once you've found the answers, have fun with the design and colour of your codes...

Copy and paste your QR code into a Word document.

Click on the QR code in Word. This brings up the format menu.
Look at the two screen shot I have taken from Word for how I made the QR change appearance and colour.

Tidy your My Docs area Y5 and Y6 folders

2011-07-16T13:38:00.000+01:00

Today you will tidy your My Docs area ready for Year 6. Here's how:

Read these instructions once all the way through. Then read them again as you carry each step out.

Open My Docs folder.
Right click in a blank space.
Click New then Folder - New Folder will appear with the name ready to be changed - type Y5 straight over the name New Folder.
If you can no longer change the name, right click and select Rename.
Select documents (NOT folders) by using your mouse to highlight around them - you can highlight more than one.
Drag them into your new Y5 folder.
Create a Y6 folder by right clicking, selecting New Folder and renaming it Y6.

Once you've both done that, you've got free time on school software or school internet sites.

Have fun!

Adverts - TV & Radio

2011-07-11T17:20:00.000+01:00

Get your goal scoring book. Have fun enjoying the TV and radio adverts that you looked at yesterday.

Add in features that you spot onto the sheet you used on Monday.

Try also to log things in your memory that you would like to use in your advert later this week.

Solids, liquids & gases - concept cartoon

2011-07-01T18:23:00.001+01:00

Have a look at this cartoon and read the speech bubbles carefully.

Talk quietly to your partner about which statement they think is right and why. Are some of them partly right?

Remember your Talk Tools.

What do you think?
Why do you think that?
Can you explain a bit more?
I disagree because... I think .... because...

Add a comment to this blog post explaining what you both think about each slice's opinion.

Try to use your literacy targets as you explain.

Can you start with When If After While Whenever Even though?

Poetry Performances

2011-06-18T18:56:00.000+01:00

Put on your headphones and enjoy watching and listening to these poems.

Talk quietly with your partner... Which do you prefer and why? Watch that poem again and try to come up with 4 sentences beginning with good openers explaining your opinions.

Write the 4 sentences on a Word document. Print them off and stick them in your literacy books.

Try:

When
If
After
While
Even though
Whenever
Despite

Bethany & Jacob's Radio Show on Everest

2011-06-14T22:09:00.002+01:00

Mountain interview Bethany Jacob (mp3)
Refresh the page if the play button doesn't appear above.

Have a listen to two of our fabulous children recording an interview as if they've just completed Everest. Our theme this term is called Be Amazed! It's all to do with being amazed by mountains and mountain adventures

We'd love to hear from you if you have actually been on Everest or had an adventure in the mountains! Please add a comment below - after you've commented, use the Name when it asks for your identity, then post - we moderate all comments for the children's safety so you won't see your comment straight away. We'd love to know:

How long it took
Some of your feelings at different parts of your journey
Why you wanted to do it
Whether you've been on Everest more than once
What the conditions were like

We're also really keen to know whether mountain explorers need to learn how to write - do you need writing skills if you're just climbing mountains?

Science concept cartoon

2011-06-10T14:20:00.003+01:00

Have a look at this cartoon and read the speech bubbles carefully.

Talk quietly to your partner about which statement they think is right and why. Remember your talk tools. Use sentences like:

What do you think?

Why do you think that?

Can you explain a bit more?

I disagree because...

I think .... because...

Add a comment to this blog post explaining what you both think. Try to use your literacy targets as you explain.

E-safety - what do you know?

2011-06-06T21:29:00.000+01:00

Explore the e-safety part of our website - there are games to play and videos to watch. Make sure you know how to stay safe.

Finished? Add a comment to this blog using your sentence openers explaining some of the things you've learn?

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

2011-05-21T19:17:00.000+01:00

This week in your ICT time you must complete the 100 Word Challenge. However, it is not linked to the picture you voted for. Check out why not here: 100 Word Challenge

Mr Langley - we're thrilled!

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Listen!

Try the 100 Word Challenge

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Click the link below and enjoy using your amazing creativity!

The first post asks you to choose the next picture for the 100 Word Challenge.

The second post gives you the first 100 Word Challenge.

Have fun!

100 word challenge

Character description

2011-04-20T15:18:00.000+01:00

Watch this video. (click the link left!)

Now have a go yourself using this picture.

Write a description of the character you can see. Use the ideas from Pie Corbett to uplevel your work.

Click the comments button below to start your description with your partner.

Who's visiting us?

2011-04-08T14:16:00.003+01:00

Raymond Briggs book reviews

2011-04-07T22:15:00.000+01:00

Complete your book review from last week.

Only when you have finished, search for the title of the book using google images and add it to your review. Remember to incude your name as the reviewer.

Copy this text to help you and change the name of the book:

Raymond Briggs The Bear

The Deep by Alex & Leanne

2011-04-07T20:38:00.001+01:00

3D cube challenge

2011-03-31T14:09:00.000+01:00

Find the Smarboard file called 3rd dimension on Exercises/Y5/Today.

Try out the challenge! Work together well using the Talking Trio skills that we've been practising.

When you've created a few, save the file to your My Docs.

Science of Sound

2011-03-27T19:15:00.000+01:00

In your independent ICT time this week, put on your headphones and enjoy exploring our topic box on sound.

You'll find it on our website. In our Y5 classroom, under topic boxes/science.

2011-03-12T18:46:00.000Z

Find the Super Shapes Smartboard file on Exercises/Year5/Today.

Can you crack the codes?

One you have, save it to your My Documents folder, print off a copy.

Finished? Enjoy exploring the WW2 topic box.

Anne Frank letters - main body

2011-03-09T11:09:00.000Z

Great orientations on your letters Y5!

Use either your ideas or Kaif and Damian's below to get yourself into the main body of the letter.

Continue using the sentence openers you practised this morning trying to recount what has happened to you.

Dear Rachael
I am horrified about the options I've got in this building. I've just unpacked my briefcase, and put my clothes in the cramped wardrobe. I can't tell you where I am. I am here because of dumb HITLER! When will I come out of here ?

It all began about a month ago my dad told me we were going to hide.

Anne Frank - historical recounts

2011-03-09T10:18:00.000Z

Write to your close friend. You've managed to get someone to post a letter for you to your best friend.

Think about the features of the recount we have learnt so far.

Growing Garlic

2011-03-07T08:23:00.000Z

Quietly discuss this as you try to solve the problems set.

Make sure you both understand the problems.

You may need to read it a few times first.

Try one problem at a time.

Independent ICT time: Sweets in a box

2011-02-27T14:33:00.000Z

Welcome back! Hope you've had a great holiday.

This week's ICT time is a chocolate challenge!

Go to Exercises/Y5/TODAY and find the Sweets in a Box smartboard file.

Read the challenge and give it a go!

Save your smartboard file to My Documents before you log off.

Have fun!

Vote now Year 5!

2011-02-03T21:22:00.001Z

Replace your audience response systems with Poll Everywhere

Year 5 vote now!

2011-02-03T21:19:00.002Z

Create your own sms poll at Poll Everywhere

WALT: Write in the 3rd Person

2011-02-02T08:22:00.000Z

Read the 1st person account from Mallory below. What would this sound like if written in the 3rd person?

I had given everything that I had, every last breath as we struggled upwards even though our oxygen tanks had failed. Irvine had tried everything, but they had been leaking from the start and now they were empty.

I clung to the sheer wall of ice with all my strength, using my spiked boots and axe for grip. The weather had closed in all around me and suddenly I could see Irvine no more! I cried out against the howling wind but my voice would not come out, it was frozen with fear. He was gone, my friend and climbing companion never to be seen again.

I sought shelter behind an ice fall and ate the very last of the food I was carrying in my rucksack. I knew it was only a matter of time until Everest would take my life too!

Independent ICT: Want to geocache?

2011-01-20T15:09:00.000Z

Let's get your letters typed up then!

Choose one of your letters or combine what you think are the best parts of each letter.

Layout carefully, professionaly and formally.

Challenge and topic box

2011-01-11T08:57:00.000Z

Start with this fun challege.

http://nrich.maths.org/content/03/11/penta2/SqNos.swf

When you've successfully completed it, explore the WW2 topic box on our website.

What's your view?

2010-12-13T08:16:00.000Z

Mr Soutar has asked for your opinions about the topic work you've done this term. Please add a comment to this blog and tell him the things you've particularly enjoyed...

Remember...

trips
things you've done outdoors
activities in class
learning at home
ICT you've used

Try to explain your opinions... What did you like and why? What made it better than you expected? Are there some things you enjoyed more than others? Why?

Independent ICT time: How good are your instructions?

2010-12-02T17:22:00.001Z

Look out for the bossy, wagging finger as you enjoy sorting these instructions out!

Finished?

Explore an area of The Deep topic box that you haven't been to before.

Independent ICT Time: Numeracy Measures

2010-11-21T17:41:00.000Z

Practise your newly learnt measures skills.

Go to Programs Numeracy and find the game we were playing in class.

Measure your success!

Independent ICT time: Explore topic box SCIENCE Changing state

2010-11-11T20:02:00.000Z

Spend time enjoying the water cycle activities.

Make sure the sound is turned on - it reads to you!

Find them on our website here:

Classrooms/Year 5/Topic Boxes/Science/Changing State

Independent ICT time: Google Earth exploration!

2010-11-08T08:26:00.000Z

Enjoy exploring Google Earth. Remember - turn off all of the layers apart from the oceans layer.

Tasks:

Find the Thistlegorm.
Watch Cousteau's video.
Add a comment to this blog to answer, "Why did it sink?"
Try adding placemarks to mark the oceans in the correct places.

Independent ICT Time: The Deep feedback

2010-10-14T17:52:00.001+01:00

Add sticky notes to our Glenaire Wallwisher saying:

What you've enjoyed so far about The Deep
What you've learnt about The Deep
What else you'd like to know or do about The Deep

Click this linke to start: http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/TheDeep

Finished? Publish one of your Roald Dahl stories using a word processing software.

Independent ICT time: Instructions game

2010-10-11T08:07:00.000+01:00

We're learning about instructions this week.

Enjoy playing this instructions game!

Click the link.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/writing/instructions/play.shtml

Independent ICT time: Describe a giant

2010-10-03T20:02:00.000+01:00

Use your new VCOP skills to describe a new giant that's found its way to the queen's palace.

Come up with your own creation or use the picture to help you.

Remember add mood factors... Make it stand out in 3D with surround sound!

Looks
Sounds
Sights
Touch
Smells
Colours

Click COMMENTS below and start writing. Remember to add your username e.g. 6Joshua to NAME/URL before you click Publish Post.

Wet breaks aren't all that bad!

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Joshua loving his lego creations!

Look further down for your independent ICT time task

:-)

BFG Speechmarks

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WALT: Use speechmarks

"Do you always know where they’re going?" Sophie asked.

Always the BFG said. Every night they is yelling at me as they go bootling past. The other day they was yelling we is off to Mrs Sippi and Miss Souri to guzzle them both.

Disgusting Sophie said. I hate them.

She and the Big Friendly Giant sat quietly side by side on the blue rock in the gathering dusk. Sophie had never felt so helpless in her life. After a while, she stood up and cried I can’t stand it! Just think of those poor girls and boys who are going to be eaten alive in a few hours time! We can’t just sit here and do nothing! We’ve got to go after those brutes!

No the BFG said.

We must Sophie cried. Why won’t you go?

The BFG sighed and shook his head firmly. I has told you five or six times he said and the third will be the last. I is never showing myself to human beans.

Why ever not?

INDEPENDENT ICT TIME: Explore The Deep

2010-09-24T11:23:00.004+01:00

Enjoy exploring the whole of The Deep topic box.

Remember: if you'd particularly like to explore Earth, Sun & Moon, you'll find it within The Deep too!

INDEPENDENT ICT TIME: Earth, Sun & Moon

2010-09-18T19:49:00.002+01:00

This week explore the topic box - Earth, Sun & Moon.

Don't forget to put on your headphones and enjoy these 2 videos below first!

Find the Earth, Sun & Moon either near the top of The Deep topic box or in the Science topic boxes.

V C O P

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Use your laptops. Copy this to Open Office Writer and change the colour of juicy Vocabulary, Connectives, Sentence Openers and Punctuation.
VOCABULARY
CONNECTIVES
SENTENCE OPENERS
PUNCTUATION

With fear and dread I crept cautiously down the dark, damp tunnel. My hands were my eyes, nervously seeking the way by tracing the slime covered granite walls. Though I strained to hear and see, there was nothing... nothing but the sounds of my own strained breathing and the soft pad of my rubber-soled shoes.

Suddenly an evil odour invaded my nostrils, like the rotting filth of a thousand corpses. I stopped, heart pounding. Was something there in the dreaded darkness? No longer able to stand not knowing, I pulled out my flashlight and switched on its harsh beam to light up the tunnel ahead.

Silence, heavy and still, surrounded me. Reassured, I began to step forward... Out of the black depths came a sudden blood-curdling shriek as the great beast leapt towards me. There, pinned in the beam of my flashlight, I finally saw it...

Independent ICT Time OCEANS

2010-09-12T20:26:00.001+01:00

You all now have your own independent ICT time during the week. This week, go to The Deep topic box –

In order, try the 6 links that start OCEANS.

Now compare the google flat map here: http://maps.google.co.uk/ with rounded Google Earth (find it on your Start menu).

Can you find the oceans on Google Earth and on Google maps??

If you can, on Google Earth, try adding placemarks for where oceans are.

Finished?

Can you find where you live? Where our school is?
Can you see your route to school?
Can you find Shipley pool?
Can you find Duck & Dive in Shipley?

Welcome Year 5!

2010-08-13T18:44:00.000+01:00

We hope you have enjoyed your first week back and are looking forward to the term ahead. Today, we'd like you to get used to blogging while practising your writing skills.

Below this post is a link which says 0 comments. Click it and you can add a comment which gets sent to Mrs Potts & Mrs Cole.

When they've seen your comment, they publish it and 0 comments will change to 1 comment. The world can then see your message!

When you're ready, click the comments button and begin blogging! Try answering all of these questions in your comment. Try to put the question in the answer so people know what you're talking about! Before you PUBLISH YOUR COMMENT, check with your teacher first that you've answered everything.

What excites you about this term?
What would you like to do more of in school?
How can we help you learn?
What have you done well at this week?
Do you have any targets yet?
Can you remember any of your targets?
Have you managed to use your writing targets in your blog?! If not, try to edit them in now!

Build a new species!

2010-07-16T08:31:00.000+01:00

http://www.switcheroozoo.com/
http://www.buildyourwildself.com/

Use these websites to build yourself a new species for Myst. Once you have done it, press PrtSc on your laptop (this means take a print of the screen). It will give you the option to save it. Save it into My Docs NOT Pictures.

Insert Pictures into a Word Processor document.

Now imagine your at the end of long day in Myst and you're writing up your diary. Describe where you were when you came across the creatures. Describe the creature. Use mood factors. Make it 3D!

Delicious Descriptions

2010-07-12T12:50:00.000+01:00

Enjoy these links. Don't forget to look up and look at your feet!
• Painted Desert - A stunning panoramic photograph of this location in Arizona.
• The Grand Canyon - An interactive photo of this famous location.
• Death Valley - An amazing image of the national park in California.
• The Giant's Causeway - The famous landmark in Ireland.
• The Driftwood Hunter - A famous location for finding fossils on the Dorset coast.
• Tonto National Forest - A place in Arizona with large areas
• Lake Annency – paragliding in France

Describe the scene on blogsite. Can they use:

• wow descriptions

• Wow openers e.g. Despite, Whenever, Although, Throughout

• metaphor/simile

• Careful punctuation?

Try unusual sentences that you can’t really do.

When you touch

If you listen

While you turn around

This week in ICT

2010-07-07T16:04:00.000+01:00

Have 10 minutes on 2type then...

Use 2simple photo. Open a photo from the story backgrounds. Can you manipulate the image so it could be the setting for a new Age in MYST?

Atrus's transcript - What does it mean?

2010-07-06T20:33:00.000+01:00

Collect your worksheet from your email. You have 3 tasks to earn your way to the next stage of the game...

Use this dictionary link: http://kids.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/english and define the words highlighted.
Write in the box underneath what it all means in your own words.
Write questions you would like to ask Atrus if you get the chance.

Our family recounts

2008-12-18T08:33:00.003Z

Read all about our families' achievements...

Animation Competition

2008-12-09T17:44:00.008Z

Start thinking about creating a movie trailer for either...

The BFG
The Witches
Apollo 13

You will be using plasticine and can make props at home. Look at these movie trailers for how to construct it. Watch them a few times and jot down notes in your Wet Break book for how they are structured - THINK beginning middle end, voice over, Title Pages, juicy vocabulary, suspense.

James & The Giant Peach

Children's British Heart Foundation (www.CBHF.net)

2008-12-09T17:31:00.004Z

Check out Artie's new website and learn some more things about Keeping Healthy.

Explore and find the games to play.

Blog back if you have time with something you've learnt.

Myths & Legends - check out what we've done!

2008-12-01T16:03:00.002Z

Have a look at the myths and legends we have done - click this link and search for Glenaire Primary School.

Then continue with the keeping healthy activity below.

Keeping Healthy

2008-11-27T12:21:00.002Z

Learn more about our Keeping Healthy topic on this website and test your knowledge at the end.

Put on your headphones - it talks to you!

Mount Everest research

2008-11-26T08:08:00.002Z

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/everest/

http://www.mnteverest.net/history.html

A Mount Everest fact file.

http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen2/full22.html

Take a look at the stunning 360 degree view from the top of Everest.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2938596.stm

Watch the BBC video and audio interview with Edmund Hillary.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/352418.stm

A BBC news report on the discovery of George Mallory’s body on Everest.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4470522.stm

A modern day test of the clothes worn by George Mallory on his Everest attempt.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6730000/newsid_6731700/6731793.stm?bw=nb&mp=rm

BBC News report from 1953.

http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=edmund%20Hillary%20interview&tab=av&recipe=all&scope=all&edition=i

Hillary Johnson interview.

Create your own animated legend

2008-11-18T08:30:00.003Z

Check out this website.

Log in with your network username and your email password.

username: 4andrew
password: mouse

Next week, you will be writing up your legends and creating animations to go with it.

Try all the buttons to find out what they do.

A balanced diet

2008-11-13T12:19:00.002Z

Can you work out where these foods go on the balanced diet plate.

Finished?

Blog back with the 2 main types of food you should eat.

Star Centre excursion

2008-10-24T08:30:00.007+01:00

We had an amazing trip to the Star Centre. Have a look at our photos Year 5 and create a slide show using a software of your choice.

You might want to consider using: Microsoft Movie Maker, 2create, OpenOffice Impress.

Solving problems with charts

2008-10-22T07:51:00.003+01:00

What to do:

Create a tally chart neatly
Click the dice on the blog to get an online random dice.
Roll the dice by clicking it.
Update the tally with the number you roll.
Roll again.
Keep going until I say stop!

Sea Rescue

2008-10-17T12:37:00.002+01:00

Your coordinates skills are fantastice Year 5!

This week enjoy using coordinates in this simulation of a sea rescue during a storm.

Remember:

- click OVER after an instruction
- call your ships and helicopters back to empty out the people

Where is it? Programs/Numeracy/Fun Tasks

Enter your photograph to WIN WIN WIN!!

2008-10-15T14:44:00.006+01:00

Open up your email.

Write this in the subject box: Centerparcs

Copy this in the message box:

Name:

Age:

Address: Glenaire Primary School, Thompson Lane, Baildon BD17 7LY

4. Add your full name and age

5. Attach your photo (R: GPS Photos\Clipart\GPS Photos)

6. SHOW A TEACHER

7. Copy this email into the To: box win@firstnews.co.uk

8. SEND

Good luck!

Instruction writing

2008-10-13T08:12:00.002+01:00

Activity 1 - go to wiki. Download this page and find a dictionary you can complete the task with. You could use this online one but you may prefer a book.

Activity 2

Work in pairs, and choose one game.
Make notes about: how to play it, tips for playing well, typical scores

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/activitiespuzzles/#

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/play/index.shtml

Click on Arty Towers here http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/art/smart/funandgames/

What have you learnt on our Earth Sun & Moon topic?

2008-10-11T14:08:00.004+01:00

- Put on your headphones.

- Listen to the instructions.

- Do the activity.

- Click the forward arrow at the top of the screen to hear the next instruction

Click the picture to begin.

FINISHED? Check out this website with games. You have to earn credits to play the game.

Rocket launch!

2008-10-09T16:18:00.005+01:00

We made rockets today!

We're learning about the Earth, Sun & Moon as well as Changing State.

We used effervescent tablets mixed with water to create the change of state that powered our rockets.

Gas built up inside when the water hit the tablet. The pressure built up, the canister exploded and fired the rocket into the air.

W O W ! ! ! !

Enjoy our sideways video!!!

Write a book review for the BFG

2008-10-07T08:42:00.001+01:00

Use 2Review+ and share your views about the BFG.

Read our amazing stories!

2008-10-02T12:29:00.003+01:00

We have been writing stories in the style of Roald Dahl.

We read the BFG and then we added an extra giant to the story. Dahl uses lots of description and action and so have we!

Find out what our giants are like by clicking the comments.

Congratulating our friends

2008-10-01T13:06:00.003+01:00

Today you are going to highlight great bits of writing in your partners book and publish the bits of writing that you think are extra special.

Add a comment to this book.
Say whose book it is.
Pick out

Capture

2008-09-23T08:37:00.002+01:00

BFG never made journey like this before

9 helicopters overhead

Pilots saw Sophie & waved

Skimmed over earth

Sophie crouched low to stay safe

Went off the map

“He's leading us to disaster!”

Suddenly dreadful noise

Guns!

No that's giants sleeping

They saw them

“Go forward & do your duty bravely”

All trembled

They tied up 8 giants – still sleeping

9th one woke up!

He caught a soldier

Les mois!

2008-09-22T12:31:00.003+01:00

This week in French we are learning months of the year. Use this learning path to perfect your French months of the year...

http://www.linguaprime.com/ (Go to Galaxie Trois)

months 1

months 2

Wow! Finished? Try this...

Investigating the planets

2008-09-18T07:34:00.012+01:00

Check out this website. Read the descriptions carefully in pairs and draw each planet based on what you read. The 9 planets.

Finished?

Explore the Planet 10 website - first explore the solar system then create your own 10th planet. You can give it your own name if you want to. Does it survive?

Monsters!

2008-09-18T07:34:00.003+01:00

The Thing sat without moving. After a while, one finger on its left foot twitched. On its back were six long purple feathers with sparkling diamonds where they stuck in its back.

Now Medusa had eagle’s wings, claws of bronze and scales instead of skin. She had two sharp bronze tusks on her face and writhing snakes, twisting and hissing, instead of hair. Anyone who looked at Medusa’s face was turned to stone.

The Minotaur was a hideous monster with the body of a man and the head and shoulders of a bull. It was bloodthirsty and delighted in human flesh. From deep in the centre of the maze came a terrible bellowing. The ground shuddered and shook as the mighty monster stamped its feet.

The boy swallowed the pearl. A strange burning feeling began to spread through him, from the tips of his toes to the hairs on his head. He ran to the river and drank and drank, gulping down water as fast as he could. But still he burned with the terrible fire. Then his body began to change. He grew bigger. His eyes bulged and popped. His skin became covered in golden-green scales. Horns grew from his head and wings sprouted from his back.

V C O P

2008-09-17T08:01:00.003+01:00

Use your laptops. Copy this to Open Office Writer and change the colour of juicy Vocabulary, Connectives, Sentence Openers and Punctuation.

VOCABULARY

CONNECTIVES

SENTENCE OPENERS

PUNCTUATION

With fear and dread I crept cautiously down the dark, damp tunnel. My hands were my eyes, nervously seeking the way by tracing the slime covered granite walls. Though I strained to hear and see, there was nothing... nothing but the sounds of my own strained breathing and the soft pad of my rubber-soled shoes.

Suddenly an evil odour invaded my nostrils, like the rotting filth of a thousand corpses. I stopped, heart pounding. Was something there in the dreaded darkness? No longer able to stand not knowing, I pulled out my flashlight and switched on its harsh beam to light up the tunnel ahead.

Silence, heavy and still, surrounded me. Reassured, I began to step forward... Out of the black depths came a sudden blood-curdling shriek as the great beast leapt towards me. There, pinned in the beam of my flashlight, I finally saw it...

Earth, Sun & Moon

2008-09-05T17:26:00.005+01:00

Let's look at this learning together.

Take yourself on this learning path and see if you can work out the quizzes.

Our Earth video
Night and day

Does the moon change shape?
Watch how day and night happens.

Click Part 2 and try out your wordsearch skills.

Welcome to Upper Key Stage 2

2008-08-29T14:04:00.003+01:00

We've already got many, many exciting things planned for this year and I'm really looking forward to my year with you all.

It is, without doubt, a year of hard work but we will definitely have our fair share of playing hard too!

In the holidays Alek & Bridget blogged us so tell them about your adventures in the holidays and don't forget to ask them questions too - that means they've got a reason to write back to you :-)

Blog me back too and tell me something special that happened to you in the holidays.

Greek Gods research

2008-04-25T14:41:00.003+01:00

In pairs, you will be teaching yourself about an Ancient Greek god or goddess.

Today, you will be given your god/ess and will explore these websites. Jot down interesting facts you find and copy pictures from them in to Word for use later on.

Next week, we will be creating a learning video of your good/ess and using it to teach the rest of the class all about them.

Stay focused! We're relying on you to learn!

http://www.mythweb.com/
http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/interactive/arcade.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/arts/wingedsandals/who/
http://www.hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk/greeks/greek_gods.htm
http://www.museumnetworkuk.org/myths/ check each of these to find yours as they're in Roman order not Greek order.
http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/carolrb/greek/greek1.html
http://www.abc.net.au/arts/wingedsandals/oracle/

Ancient Greece - Independent learning

2008-04-25T14:36:00.002+01:00

What can you teach me about what you have learnt? Click to go to this website.

When you get to the site, click Enter full screen here in the bottom right hand corner.

Explore the website and we'll all try the quiz at the end of the lesson.

Ancient Greeks

2008-04-04T15:34:00.004+01:00

Well, the Ancient Greeks certainly didn't have access to computers but they were a pretty intelligent bunch.

Try to complete the gaps in the PowerPoint I've created for you by searching on the Internet.

Remember to save your work. Use Save As - I'll explain why!

Once you've finished, you can try to add some animations.

Who is this famous mountaineer?

2008-03-05T21:09:00.005Z

Year 5 have been learning all about mountains as part of their geography topic and today we enjoyed looking at mountaineering equipment.

We looked at layers of clothing that provided insulation and protection from the cold, snow and wind. We felt how the layers of Chris's clothing warmed up from the inside because the air from his warm body got trapped between the layers. We also saw gear that would help keep a mountaineer safe.

Can you remember the name of any clothing or equipment?

The world's tallest peaks

2008-02-24T15:09:00.006Z

There are 14 mountains above 8000m. Your task is to update our wiki with this information:

Name of mountain I have given you
Country
What name means
Height in metres
Height in feet
Who was the first person to climb it
Any interesting facts

Think about LAYOUT! Make titles the same, use the same font to write descriptions. Make is look professional!

Don't forget to add a photo of the peak.

French video

2008-02-02T20:05:00.001Z

Create a PhotoStory of your French Podcast. You'll find the audio file in Exercises, Year 5, TODAY

We'll look at how to change the speed of the pictures so that they fit your audio file. You'll be able to search for the photos that you'd like to use on your slides on Google images.

Ideas for things you might want to search on to get the colours you want are:

grass
bath
muddy feet
yellow hands

You might even be able to find a picture of the author Alex Sanders.

Have fun and remember to put your name on one of the slides!