Interactive Advent Calendars

Merry Christmas!

We have made interactive Advent Calendars.  First we used Pic Collage to create a background and added on the 25 days before Christmas.  Next, we uploaded the photo to Think Link and added in the 25 Christmas facts we found on the Internet!

Click on the links below to interact with our calendars!
(You may need to view your Internet browser at 50/75% as the pictures are quite big!)

 

Nicole    Ronish   Tom    Jonathan    Garv    Showyam   

 Miraj    Mahesh    Sukriti   Sandesh    Thomas

 

 

SuperHeroes

Today Shark Class have been designing their own superhero characters!  Each of them have their own special powers!

For homework, the children will be using Google Classroom to write descriptions about them! Here are two examples! 

Look out for the amazing descriptions! 

Word Cloud

In Shark Class we created our own Connective Word Cloud using an iPad app.  We then used these connectives to join our sentences together for our Key Note presentation ready for our Landing Pad!  We can not wait to show these to our parents as we are all very proud of them! 

 

Here is a Word Cloud created from the most popular words in our blog!

 

 

Google Classroom

Year 5 are testing out Google Classroom and have set you three tasks to complete at home.

Your tasks

1. Log into Google Classroom with your username and password from your homework sheet!
2. Complete the Homework Task sheet in your Google Classroom and send it to your teacher, just like you do in class!
3. Complete the form by clicking on this link so your teachers can see what you and your parents think of Google Classroom!

Please do not worry if you can not log in or you are having difficulties.  Ask your teacher and they will help you! This is very new...to us all!!

Book Review

Click on this link and follow the instructions to complete a book review of a book that you like.

 

It can be any book for any age group! You could even write more than one!

 

You MUST have written a book review before Monday as we will be using your work in the Computing lesson!

Half Term Holiday Fun!

Welcome back to term 1.2!  We have a very exciting run up to Christmas that has started with the roll out of the 1:1 iPads in Phase 3!  

Please post to this blog post to tell us all what exciting things you have been doing over the holidays! Also,  what are you looking forward to this term?

Once you have written your blog post, have a look at what your friends have been up to and comment on their posts too! 

Instructional iBook self and peer assessments

Click on this link to take you to the self and peer assessment of our iBooks!

Pic Collage Instructional iBooks made in Book Creator on iPad

Over the past two weeks we have been looking at instructional texts.  We decided that we would make our own instructional books all about Pic Collage.  Pic Collage is a great app that we have used in many different lessons (have a look at other blog posts for some examples!)

First, we learnt all about instructions, their features and what we needed to include when we wrote our own.  Then we explored the app Book Creator on iPad and began our books.

Mr Bennett is currently working out how we can upload our iBooks onto iTunesU! While he is working this out, you can see our books in the video below! Enjoy and please feel free to post comments below!

Reading Force

Mrs Turton will give you all more information about this EXCITING reading project in assembly on Thursday! 

 

You can also look at the website www.readingforce.org.uk

 



Dreams!

Today in assembly, Mrs. Wood talked about dreams and gave us this quote.

 

What are your dreams?  What do you hope the future brings? Add comments to this post as part of your homework this week. 

Presenting using Tellagami

Over the past two weeks we have been learning about newspaper reports. Last week we wrote a report about an event from our class book and this week we have written reports about a real life event.

Last year, a giraffe was killed in a zoo in Copenhagen and fed to the other animals! Find out why by watching our news reports.

We would love to see your comments after watching our amazing reports.  This idea came from Lee Parkinson's blog @ICT_MrP

Coding!

Shark Class are really enjoying learning how to code and write instructions.  When the codes do not work it is really annoying but when they do work it is AMAZING!

We are using learn.code.org So far we have completed the introduction and The Artist and we are currently writing code for Flappy Birds.

If you know any other coding websites or apps please let us know! 

Skitch newspaper instructions

This week we are starting our unit of work on writing instructions.  We have started off by using Skitch to highlight the features of an instructional text.  

Over the next two weeks we will be using Book Creator on the iPads to create our own instructional books.  These will then be uploaded to iTunesU for the whole world to download and read! 

Life Cycles in Pic Collage

Today we have been learning about the life cycles of plants and animals.  We went round the school and took photos of each stage of the life cycle of a plant.  We then added these into Pic Collage to show the cycle.

Newspaper reports

We are reading The Firework Maker's Daughter and we have all written newspaper reports about Lila getting kidnapped.

Here are our reports on display in the classroom. We will be creating more news reports in a slightly different way next week! Follow us by email so you don't miss out! 

We are listening!

Today we have been listening to our interviews on BFBS while writing our newspaper reports!  

Year 5 on BFBS

On Monday, RADIO SUPER STAR, Sean McVitty visited Year 5 with his lovely assistant to interview the children and hear their views on our Launch Pad and the exciting term ahead! 

Tune into BFBS on Friday 19th September at 0830 to hear the interview!

Mr. Pradhans Eco Blog!

Check out Mr Pradhan's Eco Blog!

http://hornbillecowarriors.blogspot.com/

Thank you for coming to our Launch Pad

Launch Pad

Today is our LAUNCH PAD! If you are reading this in school, thank you for coming! If you are reading this at home, thank you for looking at our blog!

We would love to know what YOU would like your children to learn about during our 'ONE WORLD' Theme! We would also love to hear from the CHILDREN of year 5! 

Please click on comment underneath this blog post.  Type your ideas into the box and press publish.  If you have one of the accounts listed in the drop down box you may add your details, if not, please click on anonymous.  Do not forget to write your name at the end of your comment.

If you are unsure of what to do, please ask any member of Year 5! We look forward to hearing your ideas and incoperating them into our learning this term!

Newspaper features using Skitch

Today we have been finding the features of a newspaper report.  We took a photo of a story from the Newsround website, imported it into Skitch and then found the features.

Here are a few examples.

What do you think of our great work?

Pic Collage in maths.

Today the children have been using Pic Collage to find numbers around the school.  They then used the greater than and less than symbols to order them.

Pic Collage this week

This week we have used Pic Collage to learn about countries in Europe.  Here is an example of our great work.

 

Welcome

Hello Year 5!

 

Welcome to your Blog! Here, we can post and talk about all the exciting things we do and learn about!  How has your first week been?  What have you enjoyed so far? What are you looking forward to? 

 

Comment below to share your ideas with everyone!

This week at school I have...

What have you enjoyed doing this week?  What have you learnt?  What can you do now that you could not do last week?

 

This week we have been using iPads in a range of different lessons from theme to maths.  The children are now all experts at using Pic Collage and have been great at teaching each other the new features they have found out!  You might like to download it at home, its free!!

 

Share your learning with everyone by making a comment below!