Month: November 2012

Well done Brandon for winning goal scorer of the week. You have been nominated by Miss Hall this week for your use of speech punctuation. Keep it up!

Year 6 art gallery newspaper article

This week is antibullying week. We have started to explore and discuss how we can be kind and respect each other, during circle time today.

Watch the following video clip. What is the message? How can we be respectful?

Please post your ideas below, ready for our lesson on Friday. Click on the following link.

Anti bullying

• never put your fingers in plug sockets.
• never fly kites near power wires.
• never wet electric sockets or plugs.
• always keep liquids (drinks) away from electrical items.
• never overload an adopter (extension lead) because  this could cause a fire.
• never play with wires (this could give you a electric shock)

At the end of our topic lesson today, we played  ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire’ about electricity. I enjoyed playing this game. One of the questions was about  electrical  safety after washing your hands. Here are my top tips:-

1.wash your hands properly

2. dry your hands properly

3. then you can use anything electrical safely     

If you did not dry your hands properly you would be electrocuted

This week year 4 has been learning about 3d shapes. We have been learning about the names, the number of faces, the number of vertices and the number of edges. We played ‘Guess my shape?’ because it  helped us to learn the correct words when talking about  3D shape. In the game you have to guess the name of the shape that is in the bag by your partners description of it. Next week, we are looking at 3D nets.

Useful Websites:

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/3d/index.htm

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/longshape3d.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/shape_space/3d_shapes/play/

 http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/castle_shapes/eng/Introduction/StarterActivityPart2.htm

Use these websites to help you learn about electricity:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/physical_processes/

http://www.learningcircuits.co.uk/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/8_9/circuits_conductors_fs.shtml

http://www.hyperstaffs.info/science/work/physics/child/main.html

http://www.andythelwell.com/blobz/guide.html

This week in science, I have learnt about electricity. Here are some fact I have learnt about electricity in school:

• we use current electricity at home
• we have static electricity in our body
• we use mains  electricity and battery powered electricity at home
•  conductors are materials what  pass electricity around the circuit
• conductors have all ways got metal in them ( e.g led in a pencil, pins and aluminum tin foil )
• insulators do not allow  the electricity to flow around the circuit
• insulators do not have metal in them (e.g fabric ,wood ,paper ,cardboard ,bubble rap and plastic

At home I continued learning about electricity because I wanted to learn more this is what I found out from my research at home:

• electricity travels at the speed of light – more than 186,000 miles per second!
• electricity always tries to find the easiest path to the ground.
• electricity can be made from wind, water, and sun and even animal poop.
• a 600 megawatt natural gas plant can power 220,000 homes.
• Thomas Edison invented more than 2,000 new products, including almost everything needed for us to use electricity in our homes: switches, fuses, sockets and meters.
• Benjamin Franklin didn’t discover electricity, but he did prove that lightning is a form of electrical energy
• the electric power system in the United States is the largest in the world
• electricity is measured in volts and watt
•  electric eels can produce strong electric shocks of around 500 volts for both self defense and hunting.
• back in the 1880’s there was even a ‘war of currents’ between Thomas Edison (who helped invent DC) and Nikola Tesla (who helped invent AC).
• lightening rods protect buildings in the event of lightening by conducting lightening strikes through a grounded wire.
• electricity is a type of energy that was discovered over 100 years ago.
• one of the most common ways to make electricity is by converting other energy sources,
  such as coal, natural gas, and oil or solar, wind and falling water
•  geothermal power basically means using the heat from below the Earth’s surface ,to use this renewable source, underground water is converted into steam that will spin turbines
• James Watt was a Scottish inventor who made improvements to
  the steam engine during the late 1700s. Soon, factories and mining
  companies began to use Watt’s new-and-improved steam engine for
  their machinery

Did you  that if you connect a electrical object  to your bike you could power it here are some facts about bikes :

• you’d have to cycle on a bike power generator for 4 hours and 12 minutes for a ten minute shower
•   To do one load of laundry – that’s 30 minutes in the washer and 30 minutes in the dryer – you’d have to you’d have to huff and puff on the bike generator for 3 hours and thirty minutes
• if you want to dry your hair you’d need to cycle for 40 minutes

and that’s all I have learnt about electricity.

On bonfire night there was a lot of fire and when I tried to get to bed  I could not get to sleep because of the banging noise. So I went in to my sisters bed room because she didn’t have a noisy room like mine. My sister and I had some sparklers. We got the fire works out which made a bang so loud that almost the neighbours came out to shout at us.

by James

I really enjoyed your use of speech marks! Keep it up.

Yesterday, on the 31 st of October of 2012, the year sixes set up an art gallery in the Junior hall for year 3,4 and 5.  Before the years 3,4 and 5 came the parents came to explore the art gallery. The year sixes presented why they had made the art. They said it was because the art gallery inspired them to draw. The  parents said ,”I can see how hard the children have worked.”

By Meshach

Our trip to Think Tank, Birmingham.

 On Friday 2nd November, Year 4, visited Think Tank in Birmingham. We went to see a show called, ‘Electricifying Science’. The lady, who had brown hair, demonstrated different experiments with electricity. The show was  fun and I learnt a lot about electricity  from the show.

Next, we visited  ‘Things about me’. It was really interesting  because we  learnt about how our  bodies work.

Afterwards,  we went to explore a section about animals. On the floor under a glass screen was a crocodile’s skeleton.  I was so scared to  walk on  the glass. I was shaking like jelly.

I liked  it when we went down stairs and  we saw an old fashioned bus, train and  steam engines.

The trip was amazing!