My ISPACE writing

Trickling over smooth stones, the crystal clear water flowed like rabbits searching for food.Emarald vines dangeled into the flow of calmness with trees reaching over to the opposing bank.Above the ripples and trickles steam rises to the the hevens high above.

Thundering like war horses,water cascaded over the towering cliffs water foaming and spraying in all directions.

I thought this was one of the best decriptions I have ever written I am happy and proud of it.

Building a motorised vehicles (part 2)

Hi all.

On the 10th of December, Year 6 continued with their project of creating motorised vehicles. The day before, they had created their chassis and was one step closer to making their vehicles.

That day, after maths, our teacher showed us how to make a circuit and attach it to the car. Everyone was raring to go and were all happy when our teacher sent us off. Excited, we all found our vehicles and grabbed the equipment that we needed for our circuit. We had to attach the motor to the batteries and the switch. Some people had two motors and some people had a lot of gearing wheels.

It was really hard for people to stick the circuit onto the chassis because it was so thin and the batteries would not stick on properly. Luckily our teacher saved the day as he was able to give gaffer tape to everyone.

Soon everything was stuck on and people were doing a lot of test drives. Fortunately, most of the vehicles worked.

Hopefully our car will win the race because it has two motors! See our car in action!

Building a moving vehicle (part 1)

Hi all.

On Wednesday, the 9th of December, Year 6 started to construct motorised vehicles. We started by planning what our vehicles would look like from a plan view, a side view & a rear view. In our groups of four, we designed our vehicles, some people did this on the computers and others wanted to draw, and use artistic skills.

In the afternoon, we all found our plans and our teacher showed us how to saw effectively and also his special method of sticking things together. Then we set off to make the chassis and attach the axle. It took a lot of hard work and patience to put it all together. Teamwork was also very important as we had to work out who was doing what and when.

Finally, lots of our hard work and perseverance paid off as we all finished our chassis. We were all excited about putting our motor onto our vehicle. We were all hoping to win the competition and because of this, we were all putting in extra effort.

Do you think that this vehicle looks good and will work well?

This is what our plans looked like. They were detailed and had to include all of the equipment.

The Dangers of Smoking

This week, we have learnt the dangers of smoking and presented this with posters. We used the unique program Activinspire to learn about smoking with a publication called "Puffing life away". We thought about all the possible effects like lung disease and heart attack. Here are some of the dangers:

Lung disease,

Tar build up in lungs, leading to smoker's lungs,

Bad breath,

Asthma attack,

Heart attack,

Senses of taste and smell deteriorates,

Heart disease,

Blood clots,

Coughing and brain damage.



Smoking doesn't just affect you, it affects the people around you due to them breathing in the poisonous Carbon Monoxide (CO). We will put the posters on display when they are completed for all to see.

Year 6 Geography presentations

Today Year Six presented their Geography presentations.

The standard of written and oral work they gave was excellent.

Here are thier boards:

12.10.09

This morning year 6 went down to the infant playground to do some science. We looked at how the heart functions and we acted as de-oxygenated blood and oxygenated blood. After we learnt the cycle of the blood: First, the de-oxygenated blood comes from being pumped around the body. It is currently de-oxygenated because it has given all its oxygen to the mucles. Next, the de-oxygenated blood gets pumped to the lungs and it picks up oxygen from them. Soon after, the now oxygenated blood travels back to the heart and gets pumped around the body once again. Once we had finished outside, we went upstairs and labeled, with detailed descriptions of what the arrows showed, a diagram of the heart.

After break we went to our junior hall to act out Macbeth the Shakespere play. Our teacher then explained the events of the story while some children acted out the main parts. The story is about a young man named Macbeth and he won the war for scotland. He then betrays many of his friends and murders them except from one, Macduff who ends up killing Macbeth. Our teacher drew us a chart of how the characters feel confident to do something but then they lose confidence. Like at the start Lady Macbeth is really confident about killing King Duncan but near the end she thinks that it was'nt such a good idea. Also, Macbeth was'nt very confident at the start about killing the King but his confidence grew throughout the story and nearing the end he was very proud of himself for making the right decision.

First thing after lunch we went into the enviromental area and we had to find the sheets of paper that were put around the area by our teachers. On these peices of paper were some of the main events of the story of Macbeth and we had to put them in order and attach them up with string, still in the right order. Once we had finished that task we went inside to draw a picture, using chalk, of one of the scenes or a symbol to represent the story. Some people drew induviduals but some drew a whole picture with more than one character. Also some people drew a symbol to represent the story such as a dagger with blood dripping from it or a skull that represented death.

We then started up some laptops and went on powerpoint to present one of the themes of the story and what examples were there in the story of that theme. EG: Murder, Macbeth kills King Duncan and Macbeth kills Banquo. Finally we all went to singing assembly were we learn to sing and we learn new songs.

Super Shakespeare

For the last couple days, year 6 have been doing Literacy work on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. On the first day they were put into 2 groups and they acted out the first scene. In this they were split into Montagues and Capulets where they did the first fight between them. They also watched the beggining of the cartoon version and compared the book and the film together.

The next day was an active reading day where they all read the whole book and were given different activities to do. This included:

• Dilemma checkers
  
• Art critics


• Action retellers


• And more.

At the end of the lesson they showed the class all of the things that the groups had done in the lesson. The Dilemma checkers found 12 Dilemmas in the time that they had, and answered 10 of them. Some of the questions were:

• Should Tybalt have murdered Marcutio?


• Should the prince have banished Romeo from Verona?


• Should the priest have given Juliet the potion?


• Should Juliet and Paris have been betroved without Juliet's say so?
  
• And a lot more!!!