Welcome to Year Five
Sharing our learning with the WHOLE world!
Friday was finally launch day for our rockets - they were amazing! Well done to Nadia and Laurent - they were a tie for the longest flights! 65 metres - brilliant!
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Here's our next group of movie trailers by Red, Gun, Dragon & Daan. You can also watch the original short movie in this post too!
And the original short movie...
Here are some more of our brilliant movie trailers!
Over the last few weeks we've been working on persuasive writing and now we've used these skills to create trailers for the short move, The Piano - here are the first ones that are completed!
We've been doing lots of science work this week, building up to our rockets project. Yesterday, we made small straw rockets to test what effect adding wings to a rocket will have !
What did you learn about wings? Leave a comment and you might earn a Critical Thinker star! This term we are learning about coding using the website code.org
The children have learnt to build simple algorithms (sequences of instructions) and are now moving onto more complex commands, such as using loop commands. I think they're all a bit addicted to code.org! They are showing great critical thinking skills! Today we had a tasty lesson, using Oreos to learn about the phases of the moon. If anyone can leave a comment to explain why the moon appears to change shape, they might earn some stars!
Yesterday we all became a planet and learnt some facts about that planet. We then went 'planet speed dating' so we could share what we had learnt! Each time the buzzer sounded, we had to find a new planet partner to share information with!
What did you learn? Leave a comment and you might get a star!
Today we learnt all about our Solar System. The children had two challenges: firstly to explain why the Sun and Moon appear in our sky to be the same size, even though we know the Sun is far larger. Then we created a class model to show how far apart all the planets are...
Here's some photos to explain why the Sun and Moon look like they're the same size, even though we know the Sun is really huge compared to the Moon!
And here are some more...
On Friday afternoon we began our Space Explorers topic with a challenge to create rockets to save the International Space Station! Let's just say we had a lot of fun, but I'm not sure how pleased the astronauts will be! |
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