Here are some of the musical instruments we have made in our Shake Rattle and Roll topic. We have started to paint and decorate our instruments, ready for our X factor parents’ assembly, which is next Thursday at 2:15 pm.

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5DK have also been using the netbooks to write stories in Literacy but their author is Michael Morpurgo.

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In science last week we were experimenting and conducting a fair test with sound.
Mr Barton told us to insulate our containers with different material to see if it affected the sound we could hear.
Here are some of the children working hard conducting their experiments.
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This week in literacy 5H have been using the netbooks to write stories in the style of Dick King Smith.

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Tomorrow in writer’s workshop you are going to invent a brand new character for a computer game.

At home talk about or draw what your character:
looks like
How it behaves
Has it got any special powers/ clothing or tools it uses.

Year 5 have been writing some fantastic SNOT sentences.

Would anybody like to share some that they have written at home?

What have you learnt about the 1950s?

We are now well into the first term of being in year 5. How are you finding it? What have you particularly enjoyed up until now and why?

Miss de Kanter