Today she organised a fun afternoon completing team building activities. We started off working as a team to move all 7 team members from one side of the room to the other without touching the floor using only 5 circles to stand on, we then played a memory game working as a team to memorise 35 items on a table, after that we played a blindfolded game aiming for a target with a beanbag listening to instructions from our team members and finally we had to work together to build the tallest tower we could build which could hold a tennis ball.
Tomorrow is our last day (until she comes back in the summer) with Miss Clarke. She has been working with us for 8 weeks, teaching us as part of her role as a student teacher. We have really enjoyed having her in our class. Today she organised a fun afternoon completing team building activities. We started off working as a team to move all 7 team members from one side of the room to the other without touching the floor using only 5 circles to stand on, we then played a memory game working as a team to memorise 35 items on a table, after that we played a blindfolded game aiming for a target with a beanbag listening to instructions from our team members and finally we had to work together to build the tallest tower we could build which could hold a tennis ball. After tallying up all the points the winners were ........... The Ballistic Bananas
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Today in Literacy we have been using role play to help us prepare to write an eye witness report from either a monk, anglo-saxon farmer or viking, reporting on the first Viking raid on Britain in 793AD. It was great fun and should help us write some convincing 1st person reports. Mr Harvey has been working with some of our gifted and talented readers in Year 6 since September. They have been reading a range of poetry texts and learning to recite and perform poetry. Today they performed some of their poems to the rest of the class. We were very impressed!
The whole school worked hard to raise money for Children In Need today. We were asked to dress a vegetable as a superhero and bring it into school - paying 50p to enter the competition. In our class Ellen won! Here are some of our entries: We also raised money in our class by selling cupcakes (thanks to Matt, Isabella and Olivia who made them at home) and playing Guess how many Smarties are in the jar.
Altogether Mandela class made: £38.69 This afternoon we invited our parents to come into school so we could teach them the 4 calculation methods we are currently using in Y6. It made us realise how we good we are at using the different methods already!
Thank you to the Mums and Dads who came along. Today in Computing we have continued our work using 'App Inventor'. We have all created a calculator App which we can use on our class tablets and even download onto our own android phones or tablets! The cool thing is we can press clear to do a new calculation or we can shake our device to clear the screen!
This is getting us ready for eventually creating our own unique Apps later on in the year. This half term our topic is Staying Alive and we are learning all about the life processes that are internal to the body, including all about the circulatory system. The circulatory system is made up of the heart, the lungs, blood and the vessels it travels through. Its function is to transport nutrients, gases and wastes between the cells of the body and the digestive system, respiratory system and excretory system. It also carries hormones for internal communication and co-ordination, and white blood cells for fighting disease, as well as assisting in maintaining body temperature. Today we were learning about the heart. The heart is a huge muscle that never appears to rest. In fact it does rest – between each heart beat! It beats rhythmically, contracting two sets of chambers to act as a double pump to move blood around the body. It is about the size of a closed fist, and is protected by the ribs. The right side of the heart pumps deoxygenated (‘used’) blood through the pulmonary circuit to the lungs, where it picks up oxygen and where carbon dioxide is released. The blood is then returned to the left side of the heart, which is sufficiently muscular and powerful to pump the blood through the systemic circuit to all tissues of the body, including the kidneys for waste removal, and the liver for blood sugar regulation. We drew a scientific diagram of how the heart works. Miss Clarke was able to get a pig's heart for us to look at. We compared it to our diagrams and tried to identfy the different parts of the heart. It was very interesting and great fun! Thank you Miss Clarke!
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