Carry on 'carrying over'

We were able to use today the 'carrying over' method of addition. Mr Greenwood and Karen said that this was the way that they were told when they were at school. Many of us found it easy as this was the way that our parents do addition sums.
In Literacy we marked our last Myst story. We looked through our work and made a note of adjectives and powerful verbs that we had used.
In science each group was given three containers of water: one containing hot water; one iced; and the other straight from the tap. We had to predict what temperature they would be in an hours time.

Tai Chi

In Numeracy we were given sums with five different numbers. We used the cummative law so that we could change the order that we added the numbers. We first of all checked to see if there were number bonds that we could add first.
We looked at some stories done by other children for the Myst adventure. "Above a vast barren desert ....
We discussed and researched the difference between the Old and New Testament and Temi, Thomas and Dolapo kindly brought their Bibles in to show.
Also in the afternoon we performed, by videoconferencing, our Tai Chi to teachers at an education show. Mrs Dean, who has visited the class many times, took part and copied our moves.

Smile please

We carried on our Myst adventure and used adjectives and powerful verbs in our writing. In Numeracy we looked at numbers such as 6, 7 and 13 and had to make four sums using just these numbers (two addition and two subtraction).
In the afternoon we had a visit from a photogrpaher who spent hours taking different photographs. These are to be used to tell other schools about all the videoconferencing that we do.

Making a thermometer

In our Myst adventure we spent time trying to find clues but children used this frustration well in their writing and described their feelings well.
We spent the afternoon making, or trying to, make thermometers. Some groups were very successful but some could not make it work but demonstrated good scientific understanding of the ideas involved.

TV stars

We watched today our TV programme that will be shown on TV next week. It was great because they managed to include all of the children in the film. It was funny to watch ourselves in a TV programme. The programme will be shown on Teachers TV three times next week.
We carried on with our Myst adventure and managed to enter the next dimension. We listened to other children's account of the story which were fantastic.
In Numeracy we did a lot of work on rounding and in Science we realised that descibing the temperature of objects as hot, cold, very hot, boiling etc is not very helpful and that we need to use a thermometer to measure temperture.

40 children in a classroom!

It was good to see so many smiles at nine o'clock. We wrote about our Christmas break and shared our stories with the class. There had been a leak in the roof and Year5's classroom was wet so they joined us for Literacy.
We used the game Myst Exile 3 to do some creative writing. The adventure was really exciting and the detailed images help us to describe what we saw.
In the afternoon we discussed our New Year Resolutions.