Friday 26 April 2013

Welcome to the SYCAMORE BLOG

This weeks fantastic blog was created by Abbie and Lucy!
We’ve had an exciting week in Sycamore class and we’re here to share it with you!

Maths
This week it was mock SATS so the year 6’s have been working EXTREMLEY hard on their maths tests. The year 5’s, they have been working in treetops with Mr Gigg.

Literacy
In literacy we have been learning how to create suspense. We read a small story by Anthony Horowitz called "the man with the yellow face". We highlighted the bits that created suspense and explained how they created suspense.  We then wrote our own suspense stories.






Geography
In Geography we have been learning about mountains. We went to the brambles, the new outdoor classroom, and we were given sheets to fill out.  We went to brambles around looking for information about mountains. After that we looked in an atlas for different mountain ranges.


Science
In Science we asked, Does heating or cooling some materials cause them to change? We drew a table of Reversible things and Irreversible things. Then Mrs Gilder passed round materials for us to look at and then…
She burnt them!!!

 Art Interview:
Interviewer: Lucy
Interviewee: Georgia

Lucy: What did you like about the art this week?
Georgia: It was, interesting and FASINATING!

Lucy: Umm… did you find it hard?
Georgia: Yes I did because there was a lot of detail to put in.
  
P.E:
In P.E we played a game of rounder’s with Mr Gigg and Mr Edwards. We had three pitches.

Celebrations:
Star of the Week:
Thomas!
Friend of the Week:
Eloise!

Joke of the week!
When I grow up I going to have a BIG mansion with loads of bedrooms and no bathrooms!
Why no bathrooms?
Because I want to be filthy rich!  

Friday 19 April 2013

Sycamore’s blog
This week's bloggers are:
Jaiyeola  & Eloise [and Georgia who helped Eloise do this blog]
Welcome back to school hope you all had a great holiday this Easter and have had lots of chocolate fun!
In this blog we will be interviewing some of the children about there hopping holiday. Some smashing show and tells. Plus lots more about sycamores wonderful week.

 5 holiday interviews

Abbie:
What was the best part of your holiday?
The most exciting part of my holiday was the day we were driving to Cornwall and we couldn’t start the car!
Did you enjoy your Easter eggs and finding them?
Yes because my mum did a terrible Easter hunt!
Where was the most interesting place you found your Easter egg?
In the airing cupboard!
Did you do anything else interesting in your holiday?
In Tintgel, the legend King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table was held.
Georgia:
What was the best part of your holiday and why?
Seeing my sister’s puppy because she is playful and she gives me lots of cuddles.
Did you enjoy your holiday and why?
Yes because it was a good long brake from school so that I could rest my brain.
What were the top 5 funniest places you found your chocolate?
1.             the toilet room
2.           the recycling bin
3.            the dog bed
4.          the one in my water bottle
5.            the one on the bed
Jaiyeola :
What was the best part of your holiday?
Sitting on a crocodile
Was that frightening?
Nope.
Did you enjoy it?
Obviously
Did you get any thing on your holiday[as it was your birthday]?
Yes the skyfall movie and the transformes movie.
Lauren:
What was the best part of your holiday?
The best part of my holiday was when I went to Edinburgh in Scotland.
What did you do there?
I went to Sterling Castle.
What else did you do?
For the second week I did a show called living the dream. [which Eloise was about to do but did not]
Hannah:
What was the highlight of your holiday?
When I went to Turkey.
What did you do there?
I went on a banana boat.
Was it exiting?
Definitely.
Did you do anything else?
We went to the theme park.[cool]
Did you go on any rides?
Yes. I went on this really cool roller coaster.
Maths:
In maths this week we are learning about 3D shapes and their nets.
We have also been cutting the out and making them while doing an educated guess on what it was going to be -some were very surprised by what happened. On Thursday we were learning how to measure 2D shapes and we went onto the infant playground to draw different sized quadrilaterals. Then we all went to another groups work and measured it.
The infant play ground is now covered with maths sums and chalk! [Also the junior]


P.E:
We timed ourselves doing cross country running and tried to get a personal best.
Next week we are going to do it again and see if we have beaten our record for two runs.
 

Literacy:
In literacy we have been writing poems about feelings and emotions here is an example done by Eloise and Georgia:
Pride
Pride is a beam of sunlight yellow
It tastes like chocolate brownies
It sounds like a loins roar
It feels like warm stone
It smells like a field of poppies
Well done to everybody that did a poem they were all A...M...A...Z...I...N...G!!!!
Also we have been doing extending our sentences so we would start off with the cat than we would improve it e.g the cat crossed the road….                                       

THE CLASS COUNCIL SECTION:
In our class council
Is:
JOE C which is the ch
SOPHIE A which is the vice ch
THOMAS G the typing person  
This week our class council we have been talking about:
Moving places
Our star of the weeks
Our lesson posters
Our enterprise money

Moving places
We have moved places and everybody is very happy.

Our star of the week
There are lots more stars of the weeks to be had so you might be next.

Our lesson posters
Claudia is organising a group to do the lesson posters as they need to be changed hope you do well Claudia!!

  
Enterprise money
We are happy to say that £90.00 of our money is going to charity.



Celebrations
Friend of the week: Holly
Star of the week: Scot
Joke of the week: why did the cow cross the road?
To go to the mooovies
By Georgia and Lauren
Birthdays: Jaiyeola
Writer of the week: Amy for doing amazing news paper report 
Show and tells: Eloise, Billy and Joe did very good show and tells.
We have now got a new poster up in the class room about grammar and a new one about the outside.

Next week we are practising SATS.
The week after that we have the boosters every morning so remember all of your things.
Some dates for your Diaries:
School disco 24th of April.
6th of July look on the news letter for more details. 


Clever maths:
If you where drawn onto a table and you where 2D would you be able to see your friend if he or she was drawn onto a bit of paper would you be able to see them. 

Hope you have enjoyed this blog and are looking forward to next week’s blog and also remember to check the news letter that comes out tonight.

Clever maths answer: no all you would see was the thick line of paper.
You can see this if you get a book and look directly at the side of the page you can’t see the picture.