NEWS FLASH!
Apollo 11 mission to the Moon blasted off in July, 1969! We pretended the event had just happened and tried to put into practice direct and reported speech, relative clauses and make sure it was all punctuated accurately.
Here are just a few.
Over the half term, there are no weekly spellings to practise but there is some astronaut training to be completed!
Here are the documents everyone should have. Don’t worry if you don’t do the full 7 days, just do what you can and enjoy the half term 🙂
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Weather conditions were fantastic and the testing of our NASA parachutes were able to take place. However, the results were not as good as we expected.
Many of the eggs didn’t survive the test with many scoring 1 (cracked and leaking) and even 0 (broken and lost egg shape). This does mean we were able to evaluate our designs and hopeful improve them after half term!
We have seen some excellent homework this half term and this week has been no exception. Our task was to present a real or imaginary Sci-Fi character and provide facts about the character. Some designed top trump cards and others have written short paragraphs about the character. There is also some fantastic drawing!
After Mr C showed us a tweet from one of the head chiefs of NASA asking for help, we tried to find a solution.
He wanted to have a new design of parachute for the return of expensive equipment such as Mars Rovers.
Today, we have planned, designed and constructed our parachutes and we are all really excited to test them tomorrow! To record how successful the parachutes are, we have created a grading system:
0= broken, no egg shape
1= cracked and leaked
2= cracked but no leak
3= no visible damage
All this week, Year 5 have been exploring the evidence about the Moon landing in 1969. After watching clips from the landing and a video presenting all the evidence, we collected all the information needed.
Then, we practised using linking adverbials such as furthermore, in addition and however along with PEEing in our work! Don’t panic. PEE stands for Point, Evidence, Explain.
Here is a selection of our balanced arguments and Mr C is very pleased! Simply click on the image to have a closer look. Do any of the points make you think twice about your own opinion?
I want to make a special mention here that everyone’s work is a first draft and not their absolute final piece!
Over the past 2 weeks, we have been listening and dancing to ABBA! We all knew quite a variety of their songs already due to the very popular musical and film, Mama Mia!
Songs: Mama Mia, Money Money Money, Waterloo and Does Your Mother Know?
Here’s this week’s rule with the explanation included.
There are also 3 Y5/6 words. attached, available and average
Thank you to everybody who has viewed our blog and in only 5 weeks, we have managed to hit an extraordinary 2,000 worldwide views!
Shamone! This week we listened to Michael Jackson after learning about his childhood in Jackson 5 last week.
We listened to: Thriller, Beat it, Bad, Black or White and Smooth Criminal as well as watch some of his iconic videos!
After research, script writing, analysing of Brian Cox’s TV show, filming, peer assessing, rewriting a script, and refilming (lots of work basically…) Year 5 can broadcast their very own Solar System space TV show!
Sit back, relax and enjoy! Let us know what you think 🙂
After looking at the Mars Rover and how we explore the Martian world, we have started looking at how we create and control electrical objects such as robots and even vending machines.
We had to create lines of code to get from our outdoor classroom all the way into school up to our food hatch for dinner. We used lines of code to show distance and direction such as forward(2) and right(90). This would mean walk forward 2 steps and then turn 90 degrees right.
ALL of us needed to debug the code we had made so that the program ran smoothly.
Today, we explored the surface of Mars and took soil samples from ancient volcano craters!
Using Bicarbonate of Soda, vinegar and play dough, we were able to recreate the lava flow of erupting Martian volcanoes from billions of years ago. With every eruption, we drew where the lava flowed to and then covered it with a layer of cooling lava (play dough). Each eruption was a different play dough colour.
After this, we visited a different volcano and had to decide where to take a sample from. We decided to take it from where we could collect the most layers, and therefore data, in one sample. Our high tech sampling technology was an empty pen!
Below are a range of photos from this afternoon…
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