Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Our Music topic this term is called 'Performing Together'.This afternoon we listened to a two part piece of music called SILVER AND GOLD. This song is all about the value of friendship. It contains the well known saying (that none of us knew), 'Make new friends but keep the old, the one is silver and the other gold'.
We then concentrated on the second part (a backing vocal), called I LOVE MY FRIENDS.
We practised singing the backing vocal and then added the beat using different body percussion. We had to follow the music very carefully. It was more tricky than it first seemed (I think I made the most mistakes)!
Then we put the vocals and the body percussion together.
Fingers crossed that the video on my new camera will upload onto the Blog.
Look later to (hopefully) compare the efforts of J7 and J8.
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
Here are some websites that show videos and pictures of children during WW2
Our History topic this year is WW2.Over this half term we will be learning about how children's lives changed due to the war.
We began today by looking at photographs taken during the war and analysing them. We discussed what was happening in each photo. We talked about evacuation and rationing. Soon, each group will be given a specialist topic to investigate. They will then have to prepare a presentation about their given topic.
Today we were lucky enough to be able to take part in some investigative maths problems supplied by Techniquest.
We played Packing Parcels, Tetra Solid, Pythagorax Puzzle, Reach Goal, Times Table, Crazy Paving, Pyramid, Nim, Tower of Brahma and Sphere.Some were much more difficult than others and we really had to try to get our brains back in working order after the holidays!
Welcome back everyone after a lovely Christmas Holiday.
Here is this term's overview of what we will be studying.
LANGUAGE: Writing short fiction stories about WW2/The Blitz/Evacuation
SCIENCE: 'Keeping Healthy' - balanced diets, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins and minerals, exercise and healthy lifestyles.
HISTORY: Children's lives in WW2, evacuees/rationing.
WELSH: Food, what you like, prefer, hate. What is good/bad for you. Ordering food.
DT: Super salads and smoothies. Analysing fruit and veg/nutrition.
R.E: Islam and the Muslim community. The Five Pillars of Islam. Ramadan.
More to follow!
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