James Interviews his Grandmother in England

Treasures

Hypertufa Making

This term we made  hypertufa to represent natural stone for our craft activity.

We used equal parts of
peat, sand, perlite, cement and water
to make our Hypertufa.

It was very messy putting the mix into the moulds. We then planted our pots out after they had cured for a number of days



The pots and pavers will improve over time - like all good things!

Clive the dragon

Welcome to Room Five and our guardian Clive. 

Clive is a dragon who arrived in a wagon drinking a flagon of fizzy.

He has a scaly head and can breathe fire.

His body is a slither so don't dither and come on in. 

But before you open the door - just so you don't burn, 

make sure you are ready to learn!

Clive is a rainbow dragon

Rainbow dragons have lots of different coloured scales.

Rainbow dragons guard classrooms. They will not let anybody inside the classroom that is not ready to learn.

Rainbow dragons magical powers are breathing fire and helping people learn.

These dragons know the value of learning.

Time to begin

Well where has time gone! This term has disappeared very quickly and we have not yet made a blog post. Lucky we had Karen and Allana keeping us going. A few minor hiccups with passwords but we are now away. Hopefully we can start to post some of the great activities that are happening.

Here are the children investigating 'TIME' on our wonderings day.

Time on PhotoPeach

30 Day Challenge

Can we all do 30 new things  - not just in September but over this year?  What could our new things be?  How could we keep a record of all the new things we have tried?  Are you up for the challenge - a time for being A+ Adventurous.



Write a comment telling me one new thing you could try in the next two weeks or how we could meet this challenge of trying new things as a learning team. 

Where in time?

Check out this great BBC site that lets you investigate periods of history. It even lets you add important historical events of your own.

BBC History

Investigate this challenge by finding our some imporatnt times in history.  Cllick on the image of the person for a time period then select the diamone events in that time.

Finish off by adding 3-6 important events in your life or memory to the timeline. 

Days in a month Rhyme

Try learning this poem so that you always know how many days till your birthday or just how many days there are in each month. 

Paper Planes

At school we are making paper planes and measuring how far they can fly. We will investigate a variety of designs and experiment to see which planes fly the furthest. We will measure how far our planes fly using the standard measures of metre and cm, compare results and have a flying competition.

To help out, please investigate some things you could try to improve the design of your plane.

You may find the following links helpful:
www.paperairplanes.co.uk/planes.html -  a variety of simple planes made from A4 paper with clear instructions

www.zurqui.co.cr/crinfocus/paper/airplane.html  - detailed instructions on how to make an elaborate paper plane

http://bestpaperairplanes.com/ -  a variety of simple planes with clear instructions


Happy flying
Karen

Welcome to Room 5

Room 5

I am looking forward to seeing you all back at school tomorrow.

What did you get up to in the holidays?

I went to Alexandra for most of my holiday and we spent lots of time biking and swimming.

Here two of my sons are jumping into the water at St Bathans.

Camp Wordle

Taine and Hamish's Cool Wordle

Jackson's Camp Wordle

Cameron's Cool Camp Wordle

Fitness Testing

From sometime in October up till now, Megan and Connor have been testing kids from Rooms 5, 6 and 7 on their level of fitness. With a long distance run, a beep test, and a treadmill test, it certainly hasn't been easy for us!
The long distance run was a run twice around the field.  It certainly wasn't just a run for fun!  We were all puffed by the time we had finished!

Once all the classes had completed the long distance run,  Room 5 started the beep test.  All you had to do was this. You had to run from one line to the other before the machine went, "beep".  Sounds easy doesn't it but the beeps get closer together and so you have to run faster and faster. You stop when you don't reach the line before the beep and Megan recorded which level you got to.

On the treadmill we had to wear a mask and run for as long as we could while Megan and Connor raised the slope on the treadmill. We had to wear a mask so they could record how fast we were breathing.