Timeline is helping children understand chronology with famous events and inventions throughout the ages.
Jigsaws are popular, both online and out of the box.
Quirkle and Rubik’s cube are the order of the day in Mr Loughlin’s room.
Trinity checks over the evidence.
Our softball and team work skills have greatly improved this year. Everyone knows where to be and what to do. Most importantly we work together, giving support and encouragement to other team members. We listen to Mr Futter’s questions and can suggest the best strategy.
Mr Futter said what he was most impressed with was the way he could stand back and let the teams give each other advice, and even if someone does make a wrong decisions nobody criticises because they all realise that they too have made mistakes in the past. “They all have had it happen to them and know how it feels.” Explained Mr Futter.
Everyone in class has joined in the sponsored bounce. We are grateful to the parents who helped organise this and gave up their morning to count our bounces. We each bounced an average of 70 bounces per minute. That’s a whole lot of bouncing that will raise a bounty for the school. Thank you too to everyone who sponsered our bouncing.
A great start to the new term is to go straight into ‘The Pit’. These are activities designed to test us, challenges that look hard (because they are hard) but which we can solve using our KASH skills. Today we especially need to work collaboratively. Each person has a set of clues, there are 28 altogether, by working systematically through the clues. Our real challenge today is to make sure everyone in the group contributes. Some of us like to take over and others are happy to let them take over! Solving a pit problem needs everyone participating. Working well in other lessons needs this skill too. It will not surprise you to learn that the team with everyone on task found the solution the quickest.
There be no fiecer crew of pirates than those found in year five today. Just take a look at the landlubbers they captured.
They be a right talented bunch of poets toos. They while away the long nights aboard ship writng pirate poems. I was lucky enough to see a true pirate slam poetry competition this afternoon and there be no better entertainment found in the Seven Seas. See here the piratical poets.
That be the end of our pirate adventures. Next, tales of Olympian feats from Ancient Greece.
Phase One a Roadshow can come every week for extra physical fitness lessons, aka the school disco. Most parents may be curled up on the sofa in blissful peace and quiet tonight but the wonderful parents of the PTA are here at the Summer Disco ensuring safe, but loud, fun!
If you were here, and loved it, leave a comment.
The first question everyone asked was ‘How is it possible to put on a play in a day?’ Here is how you do it in four simple steps.
STEP ONE – Make the props. We had the script and notice of props needed from Splat’s Entertainment. 5w had nearly 2 hours to make the props we needed for our scene. We got on quickly and had time to prepare a page about the play for our pirate books.
STEP TWO – Learn our parts.
We only had an hour to learn two scenes. We had to be really quiet and pay attention to the director. Then we needed to remember everything we did. It was hard to remember exactly what to do but luckily some people are really good at listening and we could follow their lead. By lunch we had been through the scenes twice.
STEP THREE – Rehearsal.
All three classes neede to run through their scenes. The audience started to arrive before we even got started! But once we started we could see some great acting. The key is everyone else being still so the actors on the stage can concentrate.
STEP FOUR – The Play
The play, was fantastic. Aaron, from Splat’s Entertainmet, gave us all the cues which helped us remember our parts. Even if we didn’t we found out it didn’t really matter as long as the audience enjoyed our performance. At the start of the day many of us were very nervous ( especially the teachers) but by getting stuck in and doing our very best we found out it is possible to put on a play in only one day.
Pirates can be marooned or shipwrecked. Left all alone on an island they would need good technical skills to solve problems. Our wanna be pirates learnt about the six simple machines today (I won’t tell you what they are, see how many your pirate can remember).
Here’s a clue, on the day we explored pulleys and levers. Our challenge was to build a fixed single pulley, nearly everyone achieved this. The second challenge was to make a single moveable pulley, that was hard, only one group managed to make this. Next time you are in our hall see if you can spot the mechanism with 5 fixed pulleys. (Clue – look up.)
We also had time to make lots of Knex models that used simple machines, this one took 3 groups to get it made.
Which simple machine can you see in the picture below?
Once we had a good understanding of some of the simple machines we tried the Rube Goldberg Challenge – to make our own machine made up of the six simple machines. Rube Goldbeg was an American cartoonist who was famous for the complex machinery in his cartoons – very like the Mechanical Harry book we had in one of our Curiosity Cafes.
This was my favourite Pirate day so far as I never had the chance to do these hands on activities when I was young and finally realised my dream of building a single fixed pulley!
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