In literacy this week we have been empathising with characters from Kensuke’s Kingdom. We are writing some letters to an Agony Aunt to explain the different character’s feelings. Add your letter here.

Play these games to help you develop your understanding of place value:

http://www.gamequarium.com/placevalue.html
http://www.wmnet.org.uk/wmnet/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/853/PlaceValueChartv4.swf

What do you already know about sound?

What would you like to find out?

On Thursday 7th July y5 went to Think Tank Science Museum. Firstly we walked into the museum it looked huge. Level 0 was where we could hang our coats and jackets also we could leave our lunch so we didn’t have to carry it around. After that we climbed the stairs to get to level 3 there were 1000s of steps(well it felt like it when we reached the top). This level was about the future. We saw dinosaurs and much more. The dinosaurs looked like they were alive and they were eating other dinosaurs. But the dinosaurs are not real but they looked very realistic. Then we had a go at digging up fossils. When we were on level 2 we looked at the City Street. We found it quiet fun. Also we played on the digging machine we had to dig the balls.Then we went to level 1 to look at the past. We learnt that Ladies used to make the nib of pencils. Men used to do harder jobs.Children had to go to work starting from the age of 4 they use to work in factorys, the belts on the machines used to strangle some children if they got caught in them. Also they would have cuts on their hands and on the heads.

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This week Aman and Bismah are the editors. We were in charge of recording the sound bites and fitting them together. We also had to add jingles and stingers to link the stories together. We think it is a brilliant show so please leave your comments.

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Road safety
First thing this morning on Thursday 19th May, we (5LH) got to meet the fire fighters to learn a bit more about them. Everyone was very excited to meet them.
One of the activities was road safety. We had to look at a picture and find the hazards and safety. There were crosses for the wrong answers and ticks for the right. For example there was somebody who was riding the bike with a helmet so that was a tick and somebody without so that had a cross on it.
On the other side there were no crosses or ticks so we had to find them ourselves. We found almost all the hazards on there. The most dangerous one was talking on the phone and putting your hand out the window of a moving car. A shocking one was that a normal tissue box can weigh as much as a house brick when you have the car crash!

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Firefighters visit recount
On Thursday 19th May 2011 class 5LH had a visit from the West Midlands firefighters. We had learnt all about Smoke Alarms.
These are a few things we had learnt:
• That the Smoke Alarm should be in the middle of the landing
• If you have two put the second on the stairs
• At least test your smoke alarm every month
• Don’t paint over the smoke alarm
• Vacuum the smoke alarm gently every week to keep the dust off.

If your smoke alarm stops working buy another one but don’t leave it out of use put it up straight away. If you do not know how get a professional to do it. The officer said “ do not put smoke alarms in the attic, bathroom or kitchen “.

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Hoax Calls don’t call 999
First we talked about a boy called Jimmy who made a hoax calls. We also discussed about the consequences of hoax calls. Along with that we also practiced calling 999 and talking to the fire service. The fireman asked us questions like, have we ever experienced a fire? He also asked us about our contact details. He gave us instructions on how to call the fire brigade in case of a fire.
Remember smoke kills in seconds, fire kills in minutes.

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Fire hazards!
In this corner, we had to circle the fire hazards in the picture of the kitchen. We also discussed the fire hazards we had identified. Almost all the hazards could start a fire. We discovered that there are many dangerous hazards around the home. The fire-fighter who helped us told that if you cello tape a broken wire you will electrocuted and die! One of the hazards we had found out was if you leave the smoke alarm in the packet it won’t protect you. We learnt lots about fire hazards.
Smoke alarms
In this corner, we talked about smoke alarms. We discovered that we need to check our smoke alarms every week or at least once a month. The fireman said “You need two smoke alarms, one at the top of the landing and one downstairs.” If your smoke alarms battery dies you NEED a new one as soon as possible.

Hoax calls
In this corner we learnt about hoax calls and the calling the fire service. We learned hoiw to call the fire service if you do a hoax call you can get a visit from the police and get a disconnected phone. We learned never to do a hoax call.

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On Thursday 19th May four Fire Fighters, came into 5h and talked to us about fire saftey and that we should never make hoax calls because it puts other people in risk. It also will waste there time. We went into the small hall and we had four activities and they were road saftey, smoke alarms, dangers in a house and what to do when you call 999. They told us that you have to be over 18 to be a Fire Fighter and a police woman or man. You don’t have to be a height to be any of the jobs and you have to be 12 and over 135cm to not have a car seat and to sit in the front. When you call the service you have to stay on all times so they know where they are going and to know if you are all out the house and safe and to make sure you dont go back in the house. If there is a pet in the house they will get it out of the house.

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