November Updates in 5th and 6th

 

Hello everyone,

Welcome once again to our class blog. Grab a cup of tea, make yourself comfortable and have a read of our little blog! We have been wrapping up our learning of world war one this week. We have almost completed our projects, and we will present them to our class tomorrow. We are experts at this stage! We have been busy rehearsing for the Peace Proms, and learning tin whistle. We have all mastered the scale, and we are now learning 'Wake Me Up' by Avicci. We have been acting out war scenes in drama, and there's definitely some budding actors and actresses in the room!

May the battles begin! The boys playing soldiers on a rainy Tuesday lunch time.

 We were making up stories with our story cubes in drama.

 Drama Games..

 We have music every morning for twenty minutes. Usually we practice the tin whistle and our peace proms songs. Today, Tristan brought his guitar to school, and he played 'Wake Me Up', which we have been learning on the tin whistle! We all joined in and had a sing song. What a lovely way to spend a Thursday morning! These are they types of days we will always remember fondly.

Jammin'!

 
Brian brought in war artefacts to show us today. We got to see these real war objects! Thank you Brian!

 We have a new soccer coach. Here we are practicing away.

We are almost at the end of our Private Peaceful novel. 

Science Week in 5th and 6th

Hello there!

Another week has passed us by, and as you probably know, it was Science Week.! We learned a lot about science throughout the week, which culminated in a Science Assembly on Friday. It was such a fun assembly, we loved seeing what the other classes learned about, and they showed us all the cool experiments they did. It was most thought provoking indeed!

We presented two experiments in assembly. We are still learning all about the human body in science, and this week we studied the tongue and our taste buds. Here are some photos of our experiment. Well done to the volunteers who took part to make it a fair test!

Our second investigation was to study the amount of oxygen in the air, and how it affects the lighting of our candles, and the effect oxygen has on the burning of a flame.

The presenters were outstanding in the assembly. I couldn't have explained it better myself. I was so proud of them! 

 On another note, we started learning how to play the tin whistle this week. We have mastered the scale, and some have learned to tunes songs already!

We produced some simply magnificent pieces of writing, using our toy soldiers as characters.

 

And one student presented this masterpiece!

Our homework on Thursday night was to start organising all the information we had gleaned about the war, and to put it in order for our projects. One child produced this! It is a timeline of the events of the war, from June 1914 to November 1919. Isn't is amazing?! And the relevant country flags are on each fact. I was so impressed!

 

That's all for now!

Learning about World War One in 5th and 6th.

Hello everyone!
We are busy learning about world war one this week.
Today we were learning about the allies and the central powers. It can be tricky to remember which countries fought with and against each other, so we went back to basics and used toy soldiers to help us remember.
We had four groups, Britain and Italy on the allies team, and Germany and the Ottoman Empire on the Central Powers team. The bell went just as we were having our final battle. We will resume tomorrow but we already know which side wins the war! We used our new war vocabulary and we tried to remember the leaders of each war country too. We made trenches and our army base camps.

 Germany under pressure!

 Very impressive base camp from the United Kingdom!

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Prime Minister David Lloyd George in crisis talks..

 Battle in the trenches

These are our books covers based on our novel 'Private Peaceful' which is also about world war.

 These are some of our war stories 'A Soldier's Sorrow'

These are our soldier silhouettes. They each tell a war story. Do you see the one on the bottom right? Dogs played a huge role in world war one.

We made the timeline above too, which has most of the main dates of importance in world war one.