Shapes

Our Maths over the last 2 weeks has been based around the book 'A Rumble in the Jungle'.  We went on a shape hunt around school on Wednesday. Yesterday and today we were making 2D and 3D animals. (Giraffe's mostly!)

Here are some of the animals that we made.  Can you identify the 2D and 3D shapes that we used?


Shape animals on PhotoPeach

A Healthy Meal?

Today we were looking at what might make a healthy meal.  Last year we looked at the food pyramid so we already knew the different types of food groups. 
We did a similar activity to the one our quadblogging friends in America did last month.  We had a picture of some food and had to join to make what we thought was a healthy, balanced meal.

Here are some of the groups we formed.  We thought about how balanced they were and if something was missing.  Some of our groups changed a bit.

Pizza and cheese

Pizza and salad

Is there something missing?

Spaghetti and peas

Do we need fish? Is it too much food?

Have we got too much of something?

Deciding if it's balanced.

Deciding if something is missing

A cheese sandwich

Is there enough here?

A cheese sandwich and fruit.


We are now going to keep a food, drink and exercise diary for a week to see how balanced and healthy our diet is.

Stick man

I came across this and thought you might like to have a play with it:

drawastickman



Questions for our Quadblogging friends

We are going to the zoo tomorrow to find out about different animals.  Next week, we will be beginning to write a non-chronological report about an animal.  We would like to ask you a few questions about the animals you have in your countries.

1. Do you have hedgehogs?  By Emma
2. What kind of pets do they have in the pet shops?  By Jeremy A
3. Do you have wolves?  By Elliott
4. Do you have different animals at different times of the year?  By Poppy
5. Do you have wild foxes? by Bryan
6. What kind of birds do you have? by Wen Ting
7. Do you have wild pigs? by Orion
8. How many different kinds of animals do you have in your town/city? By Connie
9. Do your pets have to take medicine?  by John
10.  Do you have wild tigers? by Krish
11. Do you have piranah fish?  By Ethan
12.  Do you have dangerous animals in your country?  By Jeremy L
13.  Have you seen a panda?  By Julia
14. Are there great white sharks in the seas by you?  By Elliott

If you are able to answer any of the questions, we would be very grateful.

Mrs. Overmann - where abouts in America is your school?  We know that the school in the UK is in Hartlepool.

We look forward to hearing from you soon
Thank you!

Body games to play

Here are couple of skeleton games to play to help you learn about the bones inside our bodies:

The skeleton in our body

Bones and Harry skeleton game

Enjoy!

The Twits

We are reading The Twits by Roald Dahl at the moment and are doing lots of different activities based on it.

Some of us are making papier mache heads of Mr and Mrs. Twit, but they are not ready yet.  Others have been using Pivot Stick to create an animation based on part of the story.

This video clip is showing the work that John and Jeremy did based on Mr. Twit climbing the ladder to get the birds for his bird pie.  They adapted the end of it though in to some thing else!

Have a look and see what you think.  This is the first time they have used it this year.

Human life stages

We have been looking at the life stages of humans.  Here is a game to play:

Life stages game

Here is some of our work:

 by Jihyun

by Katelyne

 by Leonna

 by Takeru

 by Jeremy L

 by Alice

 by Connie

 by Grace

by Jeremy A

We're also looking at the life stages of a frog and how it is similar and different to how we are.

Moon Festival

What is Moon Festival and what did we do to celebrate it?

What is Moon Festival?

This is what we did:
I went to Kaoshiong with my family. I went playing with friends and we had fireworks on sticks.  by Toby

We went to the park at Yang Ming Shan.  I saw 2 other families.  by Emma

I went to see the Hot Springs.  It was really fun. We came home and had a BBQ and some mooncakes. They were yummy! by Alice

I went to ATT and went swimming with my family. by Bryan

I went to my grandmothers house and we had a BBQ. It was very nice. by Ethan.

I went to my Dad's sisters house for a BBQ and I went to  buy some water babies! I went down my apartment to eat food. by John.

Moon Festival is all about being with family and celebrating good times together.  We had lots to celebrate.

Some of our shape poems

Have a look at some of the shape poems we have been doing this week.  Some are not finished yet, but will be added when they are.

Shape Poems by 3GE on PhotoPeach



As always, let us know what you think of our work.  
How could we improve it?

Some More Calligram Poems

Here are some more of the wonderful calligram poems that we did for homework:

Cats Can by Poppy

Cow Can by John

Dog Can by Julia

Dolphin Can by Rion

Eagle Can by Jeremy L

Humans Can by Ethan

Koalas Can by Grace

Panthers Can by Elloitt

Rabbits Can by Jihyun

Rabbits Can by Wen Ting

Tigers Can by Bryan

Tigers Can by Toby

We would love to know what you think of our poems.  Did we do a good job of making words in to calligrams?

Shape poems

We are also looking at shape poems this week.  Here are two that we looked at as a class:

We will be having a go at writing our own shape poems too.

We will also be looking at and writing some Diamonte poems.  Do you know what these are?

Our own calligrams

We have been working on our own calligrams for homework.  Here are some that we have done:

by Connie

By Emma

By Alice





We would love to know what you think. 

What do you like about them? How do you think they could be improved if they were to do them again?

Calligrams homework

Below is the poem we read in class this week: Cats Can

Use it to think about how you are going to write your own calligram poem for an animal of your choice.

I am looking forward to seeing how you turn some of your verbs and adjectives in to calligrams.

Myself and other animals

We have just started the topic of 'Myself and other animals'.  We wanted to find out what we already know about the topic, so we used the mind map tool again to show this.

What we know about 'Myself and other animals' on PhotoPeach





We are now going to think about what questions we want to find out about throughout the topic.