Author Archives: KW
Fractions to decimals – online game
This game will give you practise in converting fractions to decimals. Try to do it without using the ‘fraculator’ (just type in the numbers you know). That way you will get through the game more quickly and practise your mental methods for converting fractions to decimals and collect ‘bio-rods’ to help defeat the Robots! Click on the image to start.
VE-Day celebrations
Just before the end of the term, we held our ‘VE-Day party’. We dressed up in WW2 clothes and did some WW2 maths. We also had a PT lesson doing drill and found out what it was like to hear an air raid siren. We had to have our gas mask boxes and our ID cards with us all day. In the afternoon we tried some ration food like apple cake made from dried egg and fallen apples from a neighbour’s tree. We also tried spam, corned beef and haslet sandwiches and some of us were brave enough to try home-made carrot jam! We also learned about the last months of the war and why the war was not over properly on VE Day.
Robot Day: robot races
We made some robots using Lego Mindstorms and programmed them to move using Lego software on iPads. None of us had used the Lego or the app before this morning. Thanks to Mr Talbot’s great teaching, we had lots of fun racing our robots and getting them to dance in just under two hours! This clip shows some of our robots racing and moving. Thank you Mr. Talbot!
Homework 8.1.16
Task 1 is to add an entry to the class blog about our robot work.
You should write in full sentences and write at least one paragraph of normal writing. (Use j2e to create a j2webby file.)
You can use ideas of your own, or, perhaps you could think about some of these questions : What did you enjoy? Why? What did you learn? What were you most proud of? Do you think other classes would enjoy a robot day?
TASK 2: due by Wednesday 13th January – Learning challenge.
We have talked about setting ourselves a challenge that will help us to learn something we want to learn and get better at by half term. You need to think what you want to learn and decide how you will do it: what are you going to practice/find out about/do to make sure you reach your goal?
Have the courage to make it a challenge so that you will feel proud when you achieve it, but make sure it is something that is realistic for you to be able to do.
This week, decide on what your personal challenge will be and write a short plan in your homework book to say how you will use one of your homework times to help you reach it over the next four weeks. Set a timetable for what you will do. Will you need help to reach your goal and, if so, who are you going to ask to help you?
Your challenge could be to learn a particular skill (e.g. to get your handwriting joined and neat), it could be to improve your understanding of something particular (e.g. a maths or science topic, or get to grips with something in literacy) or perhaps to read and review a book of your choice; it could be something completely different that you think of! You MUST have a clear goal, a timetable of what you will do and a clear idea of how you will show what you have learned. I will discuss your challenge with you to agree them with you next week. Your job is to convince me your challenge is a good one that you will enjoy, learn from and feel rightly proud about achieving.
TASK 3: Spellings/Tables to practise
Keep practising tables and spellings. A little bit every day works!
Spellings from the Year 6 list to practise for a test next Friday are:
appreciate immediate communicate accommodate exaggerate
desperate conscience conscious ancient achieve
