For your homework this week you need to create a poster of a food web for a chosen habitat.
You could choose savannah, rainforest, desert, arctic, pond, river ext. Think carefully and do some research on the types of animals that live your chosen habitat. make sure you poster is colourful and shows the “interconnectedness of all things” (Dirk Gently).
This is an example of an excellent food web for the savannah eco-system.
Recently we have been looking at Beowulf in literacy. Our work culminated in us working in groups to re-tell a section of the story using drama. Here is the short video that we made.
Beowulf, composed between in the 7th and 10th centuries, is generally thought to be the oldest surviving epic in British literature. It is about the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel’s mother. Beowulf then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a heroic battle against a dragon.
What do you think we did well? And Why?
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” Nelson Mandela
As we all found out of Friday, Nelson Mandela has sadly passed away. He has led an amazing life, and his values and achievements are an inspiration to millions of people all over the world. I want to learn more about him, and I am sure that all of your contributions on our issue of the week board can help….
Here are some questions to get you thinking?
And here are some pictures:
Deforestation is the clearing of the Earth’s forests on a massive scale. This often results in damage to the quality of the land. Forests still cover about 30% of the world’s land area, but on average 36 football fields are cleared of forest each minute!! Here are some pictures and a graph to get you thinking:
Questions to think about:
I look forward to pinning up all of your contributions. Great effort last week – much better from the boys!!
To help us plan for our ‘Big Write’, in which we were writing instructions on “how to make a hero”, we created some amazing concept maps. On our maps we detailed what we thought were the key characteristics of heroes.
Here is some of our work:
Climate change is an issue that is affecting our entire globe. Scientists believe that certain human activities are releasing gases like carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and these are causing the earth to become warmer. They also believe that the effects of this global warming are changing the world’s weather patterns in ways that are putting people’s lives and livelihoods in danger.
Here are some pictures and a short video clip to get you thinking:
It is a very important issue that we all need to think about. Here are some questions that will help:
1) What is climate change?
2) Why is our climate changing?
3) What do people mean when they talk about global warming?
4) What type of human activities release gases like carbon dioxide?
5) How might climate change affect people’s lives?
6) Can climate change affect us in England?
7) Where in the world is climate change having the biggest impact on people’s lives?
8) What can we do to help slow down climate change?
I look forward to pinning up lots of contributions during the week. This is what we managed last week, mainly thanks to the girls, and I am sure we can do better this week. Come on boys…
Our new ‘issue of the week’ is Typhoon Haiyan. The typhoon struck the Philippines on Friday 8th November, and has caused lots and lots of damage.
Here are some questions that we could be thinking about:
I look forward to pinning up lots of contributions on our ‘issue of the week’ board during the week.
This week has been our story telling week, and in 5W we have been looking at ‘Voices in the Park’ by Anthony Browne.
It has been a great opportunity to look at a story in real detail. The book is about a walk in the park told from the perspectives of four different voices: an aloof, middle-class mother, her lonely son, an unemployed man and his friendly daughter. Our activities have allowed us to put ourselves in the shoes of the ‘voices’, and think carefully about their individual character traits. Here are some of the ways in which we have done this:
Creating huge models of them….
Displaying their thoughts and dreams…
Acting out their parts…
Creating and playing a board game about them…
Our learning has not just been limited to ‘Voices in the Park’. Most of our activities have required us to work as part of a group, so our teamwork skills have improved as the week as gone on. It has been lovely to see us all sharing ideas and helping each other out.
I look forward to seeing all of our fancy dress tomorrow, and I hope that many parents/carers will be able to join us in the afternoon to hear our very own stories.
I would love to hear what you all thought about the week… what was your favourite part and why? Comments please…
Our ‘Issue of the Week’ board is a new and exciting way for us to share ideas about important things going on in the world around us.
Every week I will select a new ‘issue’ for us to think about. In our classroom we have a dedicated display board for our ‘Issue of the Week’, and the aim is to get as many of us as possible to express ideas and opinions about the issue of the week through photos, drawings, stories, poems and any other appropriate contributions. These will all be pinned up on the ‘Issue of the Week’ board.
Our first issue of the week is Remembrance Day.
Clink on this link if you would like a quick explanantion of exactly what Remembrabce Day is: http://projectbritain.com/Remembrance.html
I look forward to pinning lots of contributions up during the week.
To kick off our literacy work on instructional writing, and because it was Halloween, we made ‘severed finger sandwiches’. This was the recipe that we followed:
Here are some pictures of us in action:
If you were to open a sandwich shop, would you sell severed finger sandwiches in you shop? If ‘yes’ why, and if ‘no’ why not? Please comment…
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