Sycamore blog!!!!!

It has been a great week in Sycamore class. We have done numerous lessons and activities. Last week we finished our tests and this week we got our results to know what school we are going to. Also this week we had parents evening.

Literacy:

This week in Literacy we have been learning about balanced arguments and writing them. We have also wrote about Questions that we have strong opinions about.

Science:

This week in Science we got our assessments back and we finished our investigation about evaporation and drew bar graphs to show our results.

PE

In PE we changed our topic, from football to cricket! We have many amazing cricketers in our class like Billy Owen, Joe Curran, Thomas Geller and Raj Lakhani. Thomas Geller won the fielding catching competition!

Maths:

This week in Maths, Sycamore class have been learning to multiply 2 digit numbers using the grid method and learning how to draw and understand co-ordinates.

ART:

In art we have started a new topic- camera angles and the effect it makes on the image. We also designed some Mothers day crafts.

Joke of the week

Why did the brown sauce loose the race?

He could not ketchup-Joe

Reading

As you may know this week we celebrate our world book. On Thursday we looked at online authors speak live to the children and give tips to us to improve our writing. On Friday we dressed up as our favourite characters from a book. 

Sycamore Blog

By Amy and Katie

Maths: In maths we are doing coordinates.

The one rule is to go along the corridor first and then up or down the stairs.

Science: In science we are doing a test on our tables ,about how water evaporates. We had to make it a fair test by only changing one thing.

Literacy: In literacy we are doing arguments for and against. We had a debate on whether mobile phones should be banned from school.

Writer of the week:

 Lauren

Star of the week:

Lucy

Puzzle: There is a man in a twelve story flat, he gets the lift to the seventh floor and walks the rest of the way, Why?

Why are babies so good at football?

Because they can dribble.

Answers: Puzzle: He is a Dwarf so he can only reach the seventh button in the lift.

Audience with: Lauren with her 2nd scrap book of her holiday in New Zealand and Katie and her arts and crafts .Joe and Claudia also did an ammasing show and tell.

 

 

This weeks Amazing bloggers are: JASON and BILLY!

Literacy:

In Literacy this week we have been learning about similes and metaphors. We had to create a cartoon face and describe it using similes and metaphors.

Maths:

This week in Maths we have been finishing fractions and starting rounding.

History:

In History we have been learning about the Aztecs, we designed and made our own Aztec cities. With cardboard we made the base of the city.

Art

In Art this week we designed are Aztec chest ornaments. Firstly we drew are design on paper, then we cut out the design on cardboard and drew our design on it.

Celebrations

Star of the week: This week’s is star of the week is Louis.

Friend of the week: This week’s friend of the week is Louis.

Birthdays: Happy birthday to Raj.

Audience with:

In audience withs this week Holly talked about her school in Spain and Eloise talked about her going indoor skydiving.

Science:

In science this week we have been doing an experiment on which soil has the most air in it out of top soil, sand, compost and clay. We found out that compost has the most air in it.

Bird watching

This week Sycamore took part in the RSPB Birdwatch. We mostly found crows, rook, magpies and common gulls.

Jokes of the week:

1:What did Saturn say to Jupiter?

A: I will give you a ring some time.

2: Why did the cow cross the road?

A: To get to the udder side.

3: Why does your holiday money go further in Hawaii?

A:Because everything’s aloha price.

4: MUM: Why are you standing on the computer?

A: BOY: I’m surfing the internet.

5: What do a Red wood tree and a Jumba tree have in common when swimming?

A: Huge trunks.

 Messages: Good luck to those doing Cross-country running and chess this weekend. 

This weeks bloggers are Ethan and Nick

On Monday, as you know, we came in late, so our first lesson was maths. We were supposed to do science after art but we did some igloo building instead.

On Tuesday we did spellings and after lunch we did music and P.E. in music we were doing some African music and dances. Then in P.E we were doing some gymnastics.

On Wednesday we started of with maths.

Mr Gigg- chance and probability

Mr Edwards- ordering decimals

Mrs Gilder – Fractions

After play we did writing workshop and during it we were writing about the snowman and snowdog.

On Thursday we started in maths. After play we did literacy and in it we were doing irony similes and everything else we’ve learnt. Later we did topic and S.E.A.L.

On Friday we started off with maths and in literacy, after play, we were writing up our favourite poem which we had written.

Celebrations

Writer of the week - Katie Cottenham.

The birthday this week was Claudia.

Star of the week – Rachel

Friend of the week –  Joe

Ethan and his family won the cub swimming gala.

Audience with - Ethan: cat, Eloise: fashion design

The interviews for this week are spellings, maths, igloo building and art.

Interviews:

Spellings: Will Br

Maths: Joe

Igloo building: Lucy

Art: Billy

Maths

Q- What is your favourite thing that you’ve done this week?

A- The dice games in probability.

Spellings

Q-what do you find fun in spellings?

A- Doing the dictation every week.

Igloo Building

Q- Why do you want to do igloo building? Do you think you put a lot of effort into the igloo?

A- Because Rowan did one.                          Not really, we did about medium.

Art

Q-What did you like about doing the god’s eye?

A- It was fun choosing the colour and pattern.

Joke of the week.

What do you do with a blue alien?

Cheer it up

Words of the week.

• Immense
• Sorrowness
• Ignorance
• Bewilderness

This week has been great. The snow made handfuls of excitement. There was an uncountable amount of igloos. We all had plenty of fun.

Messages

Don’t forget to look at the first ever edition of Oakwood snow news!

 

Songster's Music Files

Songsters rehearsal music files

The O2

Below is a link to all the Young Voices music files for the O2 concert.

Type the link into your browser (be careful, it is a little strange) and when it asks you to enter a password, type: songsters (no capital letters).

The files should come up. Click on the small arrow and click “download”.

https://www.myotherdrive.com/files/#/559.362816.23012013.14379.6a6ady/Young+Voices+2013

Alban Arena

Time to start thinking about The Alban Arena as well :

The files are stored using the following link: The password is the same (songsters)

https://www.myotherdrive.com/files/#/009.221916.23012013.13202.6a6ady/Alban+Arena+2013

Hope this works out well for you – I figured it was an easier and quicker option than copying CDs for everybody.

Mr Edwards

Welcome to this weeks amazing blog. This weeks bloggers are CLAUDIA and RACHEL!  This weeks photographers are Finlay and Jacob.

Art & DT: In Art and DT we had to draw our tile design on our polystyrene tile. We then covered it with paint and pressed it onto our paper. The results were amazing! We’ve now hung them up to enjoy each others brilliant work.

Interview with Grace :

Q. What are you looking forward to most within year 6 and why?

A. I'm mostly looking forward to the Isle of white because I'm  looking forward to going on a holiday with most of my friends!

                                                   

 Q. What do you think about our new places?

                                                    

A. Very good because I think that its nice to work with some one who you know you can work well with!

End of interview!

No birthdays in sycamore class

Billy was are writer of the week and Grace and Rachel got a letter from the queen

Well done to Rachel as she is star of the week and ……….. Is friend of the week

 

In Maths this week, Mr Edwards group has been helping to build a house for Mr and Mrs Jones. Mrs Gilder and Mrs Williams group have been learning about doubling and halving.

Joke of the week:  What do you do when a blue alien knocks on the door?

Try to cheer it up!

By Joe

What do you do if you are face to face with an adder?

Subtract it!!

By Claudia!

Science: In science this week we have been working on our new topic. The new topic is Solids, Liquids and Gases. We had several objects and needed to sort them into piles of Gases, Solids and Liquids. We also did another small investigation

where we figured out which statements were about Solids, Liquids or both.

 

Amy did a wonderful show and tell about her Lego and made a wonderful Lego house.

Joe did a  awsume show and told us how he got in to county cricket .

Claudia did a awesome show-and-tell about her love of PIGS! She also told the class about her sport (football)

This week’s bloggers are: William .K and Scott

This week’s photographers are: Jaieola and Nick but sadly the camera wasn’t working so they didn’t take any photos – sorry!

                                                      

Welcome back, we hope you all had a great Christmas break!

Birthdays: Scott, Joe, Isla, Holly, Katie and Grace.

Special celebrations:

Joe got into county cricket

Billy got into area cricket

New Year’s resolutions:

On Tuesday morning we all came up with some new year’s resolutions, either in or out of school. Everyone enjoyed sharing what challenging goals they had set for the New Year. 

Joke of the week:

Have you heard the joke about the smelly man?

It stinks!!!

Other info

We have changed places, our new class council representatives are Sophie, Joe and Thomas

Star of the week is Finlay and friend of the week: Billy

Subjects we have been learning this week:

ART: In art we were looking at Aztec designs and we have started to come up with our own Aztec tiles.

History: In history this week we looked at the Aztecs and looked at when they were around. We also made our own timelines.

P.E: In P.E we started to have a go at football. We were split into two groups, one for the more skilled players and another for the less skilled players.

Literacy: This week we look at personification and abstract nouns and made our own poems, everyone enjoyed it.

R.E: In R.E we have started looking religious festivals; we started looking at Hindu festivals. 

Interview:

New Year’s resolution: Joe

What was one of your resolutions?

To practice my football skills on the street more.

Holiday: Joe

  Did you enjoy your holiday?

Yes I found it entertaining especially the football camps.

History:

Did you enjoy history?

Yes I enjoyed it because it was a good test to see what I have remembered over the years at Oakwood School.

HOPE YOU HAD A GREAT WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!