Fractions games

Mrs. Elrick's maths group have become board games designers! They have spent a couple of days planning, designing and making their own board game. The theme of each game is 'Fractions'. We have been finding fractions of numbers, finding equivalent fractions and ordering fractions.  The games that we designed used one of these elements.

Take a look at what we did:

What are your views on these different pieces of music?

You have now all finished your projects where you focused on a particular musician or style of music. You will be sharing those with the class next week.


Here are some pieces of music from the musicians you have chosen to focus on. Listen to the pieces that are included and leave a comment saying what you think of this style of music. How does the music make you feel? Do you like it? Would you choose to listen to more of it?

Music Makers!

We have finally finished making our musical instruments (apart from a few ones that need to be fixed!) and they are looking very good.

One group of early finishers got together to compose, practice and perform their own music. They worked together to create the sounds that they wanted and did a great job of performing in front of the class this afternoon.

Sit back and enjoy their work!

Next week, everyone will have the chance to compose a piece of music and perform with a band - so get your creative minds working over the weekend ready for some song/music writing on Monday!

Odd One Out

Which of these is the odd one out?  Put a sticky on the wall wisher to say which one you think is the odd one out, but remember to give reasons as to why you think that.

Thinking about music

We have been doing lots of work on sound and music. We have music all around us in our lives. But what would happen if music were suddenly to be banned? How would you feel?  Use this Voice-Thread to record your responses.

What if music were to be banned?

How to make Mosquito Macaroni

How to make Mosquito Macaroni

By Elliott and Benjamin

This is a delicious cheesy macaroni.  Taste it!

What you will need:

·        A pint of lava

·        500g of dead mosquitoes

·        1 pack of rotten cheese

·        700g of snots

·        Pasta

Equipment:

·        Pan

How to make Mosquito Macaroni:

1.     Take the pasta out of the pack.

2.     Sprinkle some snots onto the pasta

3.     Take out the rotten cheese and spread it on the snots

4.     Cook it for 25 minutes

5.     Take it out of the pan

6.     Drop the pint of lava on top to make it even hotter

7.     Wait for 3 minutes to cool

8.     And you’re ready to eat!

Revolting Recipes

Are you bored of eating the same things each day?

Do you want something different to try?

Then how about choosing one of our recipes. They are truly delicious! 

(Did we say delicious? We meant to say revolting!)  

Today, we worked in pairs to come up with a revolting recipe of our own. Here are some of the ingredients that 5 of the groups would use: 

Slug Slime Waffles 

by Jeremy L and Toby

Crunch Crab Cake 

by Poppy and Leonna

Mosquito Macaroni

by Elliott and Benjamin

Stink Sausages

by Alice and Jihyun

Worm Spaghetti

by Grace and Katelyne

Later on, we will be turning these ingredients into recipes that you can follow and make at home. So, if you're stuck for ideas for an afternoon snack or want something different to make for dinner, give one of these a try!

Investigating sound

We have been doing lots of investigations over the last couple of weeks about how a sound is made and how it can be changed. 
Here are a few of the things we found out.


Emma explained 2 ways in which sound can be made:

Leonna found out that sounds are made when something vibrates:

Jihyun applied what she had found in the rubber band investigation to plan her own musical instrument. She knows that to change the pitch you need to change the thickness or the length of the string. How tight or loose the string is also affects how high or low the note is.

In the next part of our topic, we will be making our own musical instruments and writing instructions for how to make them. Maybe you can make our instruments following the instructions we write!