Sycamore blog!

This weeks bloggers are Sophie and Natasha. We hope you enjoy the blog!

 

The photographers this week are Eloise and Isla.

 

Mon 17th ScScience: Viruses   Iin the morning, before playtime,   we studied viruses,   bacteria and fungi with Miss  Shah and Miss Fraser. It was great   fun! 18th P.E: Gumboot dancing Gumboot (wellies) dancing started when African mines celebrated getting new gumboots or other things to be proud of. We tried gumboot dancing in and it was great fun! In our lesson, we filmed each other and watched it on the big screen! Art and D.T: Mon 17th Our art this week was linked to our science. We were making bread with yeast. It was fun but challenging too! Then, in the afternoon, we got to taste them: they were Brilliant!!! 17th Craft/art: We finished our Christmas cards, made calendars, decorated envelopes and did Christmas activities. 18th Jokes of the week: What do elves learn at school? The elfabet! Riddle of the week: Two children were born at the same time, of the same year, of the same day to the same Mum. Why weren’t they twins? They were triplets! 20th   P.E.:We were plplaying bench    Ball with four teams. 20th Biscuit decorating: We decorated biscuits to eat, using smarties, stars & silver balls. Mrs.Williams and Mrs.Gilder kindly brought them for us. Thank you! Christmas stuff! 18th £2 room: On Tuesday, we went to the £2 room so we can buy some presents for our friends and family. We hope you enjoy the gifts! 19th Craft assembly On Wednesday 19th December, we had our craft assembly. Sycamore (us) showed our 3D cards. Hopefully, you will receive some of these cards, as they are meant for all our loved ones! Another great crafts assembly, hopefully better ones next year! 18th Christmas maths: On Tuesday there was no proper maths, so, as it was near Christmas, we did some Christmas maths. The first task was fitting certain shapes into a present shape. It was very good fun. Task two was Christmas code crackers. We had to add up all the right numbers to make a word. It was really challenging (for those who got onto it)! 17th Viruses: What is it like to know what’s in your body? Eloise:  It’s interesting but scary at the same time. It’s also weird that on a single piece of bacteria, there’s 10,000 viruses. Bread making: Did you enjoy it? Abbie: I really enjoyed choosing the different ingredients to go into our bread. I liked working as a team. What did you learn?    Hannah: I learnt about the effort it takes to make it and shape it to the right size. I really enjoyed it, even if it was a bit of a challenge. They look great! 19th Christmas lunch: How was the Christmas lunch? Jaiyeola: I found it good, the sausage wrapped in bacon was the best. The chocolate cake was epic and I wanted an other one. 18th £2 room: How did the £2 room compare to other years? Nick: It was definitely one of the best years. I really enjoyed choosing from a wide variety of gifts.   Thank you! Thank you for reading the blog. This shall be the last blog before we see you again in 2013! Merry Christmas and a Happy New year!

Welcome to this week's blog for Sycamore. 

This week's  

bloggers are Abbie and Hannah! 

In science we have been looking at micro organisms. We did an experiment with yeast in test tubes -To see which environment was best for yeast to grow in. 

We will be making bread with a secret ingredient that we choose by ourselves.  Remember your ingredients on Monday!

This week in art, we have been finishing  our Christmas cards.  Also, our Christmas decorations came out of the kiln beautifully! 

In P.E, we have been learning the art of gum boot dancing. We also performed a routine to Mrs Heather and Mrs Porter. 

Christmas Jokes

Q. What kind of bird can write?
A. A pen-guin

This week in ICT we edited our movies and presented them to our class

Birthdays:   

Isla!

Audience with:

Raj – photos of Steve

Ethan- dinosaur tooth

Finley- golf trophy

Billy& Joe-cricket news  

Congratulations to everybody who achieved the next level in cracking times tables.

Reminders:

Bring your ingredient for the bread making for Monday 17^th and remember NO nuts!! 

Celebrations:

Sophie passed her grade 3 flute with   merit.

Abbie & Grace did their grade 2 tap and grade 3 modern. 

Natasha passed her karate grading she is she is now on her green and white belt 

This week, UKS2 watched KS1’s performance that were their version of the Christmas nativity. On Thursday morning we watched Acorns 1&2’s  performance asked some people what they thought:

Eloise:

I thought it was very  funny

, but cute at the same time. ( SPECTACULAR!)

Holly:

I thought it was the best performance that KS1 had ever done!

KS1 Performance:

Hannah:

I think it was very well thought out and the humour was kept at a good level. I really enjoyed it!

Songsters;

Abbie;

I thought songsters did a very good job. All of songs were awesome and it really got me in the Christmas spirit!

 

bloggers this week are Eloise and Georgia

Science

In science we have been looking at micro-organisms. In our lessons we have been researching bacteria on our hands and how quick mould grows on bread.

This is Day 7 of our test:

Brown bread

Number 1 is not mouldy

Number 2 has a dot of mould

Number 3 is not mouldy                                                           

White bread

(Jaiyeola’s hand) has nothing on it

(Hall floor) is very very mouldy

(Jacob’s hand) has dots of mould

Number 1 has a dot on it

Number 2 has nothing on it

Number 3 has nothing on it

Literacy

We have been looking at the story of Ali Baba and the forty thieves in morgiana's point of view. We were writing it in 1^st person. We’ve also been looking at stories from other cultures.

Words of the week:

1. Loathsome
2. Extravagant
3. Indiscriminate

And also Lauren in our class sent a card to us

saying hope to see you soon and that she will miss all the Christmas craft and her friends.

Celebrations this week are

Birthdays: Isla and nick

Star of the week: Georgia

Writer of the week: Claudia

Friend of the week: Raj

Shining star: William kerslake

Good learner: sophie

Lauren and Natasha passed grade 1 with distinction 

 Photographers this week are: Amy and Rachel!!!!

The class book is

The hobbit

We watched a trailor of the new movie and we are taking it in turns to read it before the film comes out.

Interviews:

Literacy: SCOTT

WHAT DO YOU ENJOY?

I LIKE WRITING FROM ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE BECAUSE YOU GET TO USE YOUR IMAGINATION.

P.E: ETHAN                 

WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT PE?

DOING DIFFERENT SPORTS.

WHAT WAS YOUR FAVOURITE sport IN P.E?

FOOTBALL.

TOPIC: ABBIE

WHAT DO YOU EJOY ABOUT TOPIC?

I like doing history in the I.C.T room like when we did the power point.

WHAT WAS YOUR BEST LESSON IN TOPIC?

I enjoyed doing the letters because it was fun.

Maths: Joe

What your favourite thing about maths?

Practical work

What’s the best lesson in maths?

Shapes

And the end of this weeks interviews is Hannah with what she enjoyed this week :

What has been the highlight of the week so far?

In maths making the measuring booklet.

What could the teachers do to improve the lesson?

More interactive stuff.

Joke of the week is by Joe Curran

Why is it cheaper to shop in hawi than England?

Because of aloha prices!!!

Art:

We have been doing christmas 3d cards

And designing them for one of our family members.

And also making christmas decorations for christmas trees and decorations for the christmas decoration competion  

Maths: in maths we are in different classes in Sycamore we are doing measuring and made booklets that show how tall we are and how big our smile is we also do cracking times tables on a Monday .

Space weather

With all of the sunspots on the Earth side of the sun in decay, solar activity is low. NOAA forecaster’s

Estimate a slight 1% chance of strong solar flares during the next 24 hours

Mental thinking:

There were two ducks in front of a duck and two ducks behind a duck, and one duck in the middle. How many ducks were there in total?

A: 3 ducks

 

 

This weeks bloggers are Amy and Lucy!

Literacy : In literacy we are doing stories from different cultures.

Topic:In Topic we are learning about the     importance of symbols for different religions.

 

Science: In science our latest experiment was seeing which bread goes mouldy first - white or brown. To do this we had to make sure it was a fair test. 

 

Maths: In maths we are doing lots of different investigations, such as weighing, capacity and length.

PE: In P.E we have started hockey .

Friend of the week:Jaiyeola

Star of the week:

Georgia

Riddle of the week: A man lives in a flat. There is 24 levels in the Flat he goes in the lift to the seventh floor and walks the rest of the way, why?

                 This week’s bloggers are Ethan and Oviyan

As you know on Thursday Upper Key Stage 2 did their sharing assembly.

The assembly was a great success. We learnt a lot about British history. There were 2 bands in our play Queen and Beatles.

Following this we held the moonscape challenge. The overall design winner was Jason. Then all classes put their moon buggies to the ultimate test. The winner from Sycamore was Raj with a hard battle from Ethan. The winner from Rowan was Hafsah and Willow's winner was Oscar. The winner of the full thing was Hafsah followed by Oscar and Raj.

 LITERACY
In literacy we have been studying fairy tales from different countries like Ali Baba  and writing a recount of our  assembly. In Thursday’s literacy lesson we had to guess which country some words came from. The words which most surprised people were; shampoo from India and candy from Arabic.
 

MATHS

In maths we have been drawing and interpeting pie charts, weighing and lengths.

Star of the week is; Sophie 

Friend of the week is; Jaiyeola                                                                                                   

Joke of the week is; what does the biscuit say when he got run over,

1. oh crumbs.

                                                                                             Riddle of the week; there were 2 fish in a tank 1said I’ll take the wheel and the other 1 said I’ll man the guns. How can this be.

 a. it’s an army tank.

 

This week's bloggers were Katie and Holly

Science: In science we were learning about why the moon appears to change shape . We found out that it appears to change shape because the sun reflects on different parts the moon..

Maths:In maths we are doing data and bar graphs. We did a tally chart  asking everyone what cracking times table level they are on. The majority of the people were on level five.

Art: In art we did Christmas cards in 3D.

In the cards we noticed the different levels of drawing!

Topic:In topic we have been doing Britain since  1948-2000 and started doing our assembly with Rowan and Willow.

P.E: In P.E we split in to 4 groups and did a dance routine to thriller.

 Star of the week: Joe

Friend of the week: Joe

Writer of the week: Ethan

 

Children in need:As a class we raised £34.60 just for dressing up! At school we dressed up in spots.

 For the Talent competition we had a very high standard of entries.  Well done Natasha, Eloise, Joe and Billy, Ethan, Nick and Jaiyeola, Grace and Claudia who went on to the final. 

 

In our sharing assembly we are doing a play with Willow and Rowan. We look forward to seeing you on Thursday.  

 

As a class Thomas won the Christmas CD cover.