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Friday 30 March 2012

Easter 100 word challenge

Your homework over the Easter holidays is all about Easter bunnies and chocolate!
You have a 100 word challenge to complete over Easter, and it is due in on the first day back.
The sentence you must include is: ...the chocolate rabbit melted in the sun...
So you have a maximum of 107 words that you can use.
  • Think about the adjectives you could use to describe the chocolate melting.
  • Think about the different sentence starters you could use.
  • Think about adding 1 or 2 sentences of speech.
  • Think about the adverbs you could use.

Thursday 29 March 2012

Easter egg maths


Mr Santy's maths class spent the morning on an easter egg hunt!
We had to use a map of the playgrounds and we were given co-ordinates of where the eggs were hidden.
We worked in teams to find the eggs and answer the maths question.
The first children finished had their answers checked and then had the chance to answer trickier questions for extra eggs!


  


 


 

Here are some of the questions:
14, 21, 28, 35, ......
What number comes next in the sequence?


Share 208 football cards between four children.


6, 12, 24, 48, ....
What number comes next in the sequence?


A bike journey starts at 9:20am, and lasts for 40 minutes. At what time did the journey finish?
I think of a number.  I add 15 and then multiply by 2.  My answer is 32, what was my number? What number was I thinking of?

Tuesday 27 March 2012

Some of our third 100 word challenges!

Our third 100 word challenge was this picture, and had to include this sentence:

 






...the weather changed for the worst...

Here are some of our attempts:

We were sailing slowly across the blue sea, the waves were wildly scattering across the sea. The pirates were drinking large amounts of rum, one of the pirates fell overboard as the boat shattered against the lashing waves. In a flash the weather changed for the worst. The pirates shouting orders in panicked voices, “tie the riggings!” shouted pirate cocklebeard in a gravely, croaky voice. “I can’t hear you over this storm!” shouted Salty the pirate. The angry sea splashed overboard as the ship lurched quickly sideways. Screams could be heard as the ship seemed to launch itself into the air.
By Seb

Becky was sitting on a rock, under some palm trees. She was gazing out, looking at the ships. “I hope a storm doesn’t brew. The ships will be in danger. And me!” Becky exclaimed. The sky rumbled angrily, and then, suddenly, the weather changed for the worst… The palm trees blew over, and Becky only just dodged them. “Oh!” She gasped, squinting her eyes. The ships glided around, but finally reached the shore. The sailors scuttled off, as the sky crackled with thunder, lightning flashing over-head. The wind howled, piercing Becky’s ears…
As quickly as the storm arrived, it was calm again, with fantastic sunshine.
Bye Eve G

One sunny day Tom went to the beach with his family. Tom was four years old and he was brave. Tom said to his mum “can I have an ice cream?”. Mum said “yes, Holly will take you”. “Thank you Mum” said Tom. They arrived at the ice cream van Tom chose chocolate for his ice cream. The sun was so bright his ice cream was starting to melt already. In a flash everyone felt rain on them, even the lifeguards ran for cover. The weather changed for the worst as Tom and Holly quickly ran for shelter.
By Jack

It was a lovely, bright day and the sun was shining brightly in the crystal, clear sky. My mum, dad, brother, sister and I were setting out on a lovely bike ride in the sun. Suddenly the weather changed for the worst and the sun started to fade away. We were far away from home. The sun was hiding behind the dark, black clouds. The birds stopped tweeting, the trees stopped rustling and the grass stopped twisting and turning in the breeze. It turned ice cold in the breeze, which made us shiver. Suddenly there was a loud BANG and thunder started rolling across the sky.
By Lily

Sunday 25 March 2012

Some of our second 100 word challenges!

Our second 100 word challenge was this picture, and included these words:


Carefully
Gold
Bright
Clear
Happiness

Here are some of our attempts:

Phillip was bored. He had been stuck on an island in the middle of the sea for 1 and a half years. When Phillip saw some seaweed he picked it up and decided that he could have it for his tea. But when he grabbed it he saw something under it. There sitting on the gold sand was a clear bottle. The bright sun reflected off the shiny bottle. As Phillip carefully opened the letter he was filled with joy and happiness. The letter he had opened wasn’t a letter,but it was a map!

By Reece

Once upon a time, there was a girl called Shelly and she lived on her own on a sandy island. One sunny day a message in a bottle arrived on the edge of the sand. The gold bright sun was shining and happiness broke upon her. Carefully she read the message she smelt roses she felt love she heard seagulls and she tasted romance. She had a love letter!!! She didn’t know what to do there was no one el’s with her. Should she send one back? She will decide.

By Eve F


Some of our first 100 word challenges!


As we mentioned a week ago on the blog - to help improve our writing and typing skills, each week we will be undertaking a 100 word challenge.



Our first picture was a scary looking street, and our 5 words included: Shadows, Carefully, Darkness, Clouds, Moon.

Here's some of our first attempts:


I walked down a dark alleyway, with the shadows tapping on my fragile back.  The moon was so dull it was like it had been lit and carefully blown out by a giant. The grey clouds were looming in around me as I started to run to the mask shop.  The lady inside was old and had a bundle of the most exqiusite, delicious cakes.  She let me take a bag with me. I told her about the clouds that had chased me down the old, creaky, scary road.  I  now hate the darkness.


By Georgia


A man walked down a street, the shadows crept bhind him. The wind howled like wolves in a pack. The moon shone brightly it was like it was sitting on the clouds. The gloomy darkness made it hard to see. He carefully crept behind a wall he could hear the voice of 'Blood' the leader of a bad gang. Then the lights started to flicker "zap zzz" he could hear screaming of people then he saw a light moving. It was just his imagination he made it out of the street alive.


By Callum

I was walking in complete darkness. Suddenly I turned around and ghostly shaped shadows were following me. I ran away so fast I tripped over and I stayed hidden in the dark clouds. The moon shone right next to me and a creepy, brown, hairy werewolf attacked me. Then I fell to the ground. I was shocked and in horror but then a witch flew over me and carefully sprinkled me in glitter. Just then I started flying so fast but I fell to the ground. Suddenly I shot back up into the air flying past the birds and a massive aeroplane.


By Sharna

Tuesday 20 March 2012

Queen Victoria (1837 - 1901) portraits


Queen Victoria's portrait using oil pastils.




William Morris designs


William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was English he designed wallpapers for people who didn’t live in the countryside to see the wildlife. Other than that he wrote some books News from Nowhere, The Well at the World's End, The Wood beyond the World, A Dream of John Ball and The House of the Wolfings. His mums name was Emma Morris and dads name was also William Morris.

We had a William Morris design we chose a picture of our choice we stuck in the centre of an A4 piece of paper and we extended the picture and after that we coloured it with a pencil crayon.
These are some of our finished designs.
By Eren




Thursday 15 March 2012

In class, over the next month, we will be trialing a website called Edmodo. It provides a safe and easy way for the class to connect and collaborate, share content, access homework and class notices.



The children all have a log in username and password, and have all joined the 5/4 Deers page.

100 Word Challenge!

To help improve our writing and typing skills, each week we will be undertaking a 100 word challenge. This involves trying to write a story opener or paragraph inspired by a picture.

This week's picture is:


And these words need to be included:

Shadows
Carefully
Darkness
Clouds
Moon

We will type all our work onto our class blog - http://kidblog.org/Class54Deers/
The children will all have a username and password so they can log in to show you there brilliant pieces of work!

Sunday 11 March 2012

7th March 1892








We visited Great Cressingham Victorian School on Wednesday, to see what it was like going to school during the Victorian period.




We had to dress up in Victorian clothes. The boys wore flat caps, and waistcoats. The girls wore ribbons in their hair and long skirts.
We were taught by Mrs North and Miss Fagin and had to do lots of different Victorian activities.
We had to write on slate boards, read, and do maths – the 3 r’s!





We were allowed to play outside with some Victorian toys. The boys were allowed metal hoops and skittles. The girl’s played with wooden hoops and sticks, hop-scotch and skipping.






For our lunch we were only allowed to have cheese, bread, apples, carrots and a piece of cake. We were served water to drink!

At the end of the day we were allowed to write in ink, and we practised our handwriting. Benjamin and Miesha were also presented with a certificate each – to show how good their attendance had been.




It was a great day and we enjoyed ourselves, we learnt so much about oil lamps, slate boards, toys, and what it was like to go to school in 1892. However we were all pleased to return to 2012 and technology!