Priestsic6

Hi again on the 9th of June are class went on a trip to Drayton Manor Theme Park. After the 1 hour and 30 minutes journey we were separated into groups of 6 or 7 ( I was in Mr Barrett’s group). The first ride I went on was The Apocalypse, which is the tallest ride there - when you reach the top you can see all over the theme park.

With only a few weeks to go before our SATs here are some really useful science revision sites for you to enjoy.

Engineering Interact (Forces)

BBC Science Clips (Forces)

The Big Bus (Look in at the Explorers World and the Science section)

Take a look at this presentation to help remind us of the basic language features of a playscript.

This afternoon we are going to be checking out these links to some sites that will help us with our revision.

> Primary Games

> Multiflyer - planet times table practice!

> BBC Skillswise

> BBC Schools - Literacy / Spellits!

> The Big Bus 

Hope you enjoy the session - why not leave a comment about which site you enjoyed the most.

I finally saw it standing piratically, with a scar on it’s right cheek. I went to give a deathly scream then…nothing, not even a word. It stared as if I was it’s quarry. Then it loped closer to me. I tried to scream again but still nothing. It gave a rancid smile as it showed his dagger like teeth and it’s aqua blue fur.

“Hello,” said the monster.

“What is your name?” I mumbled quietly.

“My name is Sly,” he replied, “will you be my friend?”

“Yes,” I said and he followed.

We quietly sneaked past the granite wall, and up the stairs. The evil odour I could still smell, it surrounded my room…

It’s just me and Sly.

At Priestsic before the half term break I assembled a small tech team from some Year 6 children (Hewson, Corey and Ryan) to take a closer look at the new LG Shine phone.

Before we looked at the new phone we chatted briefly about the features of a mobile device that they felt were most important. What features did they consider to be essential for a good phone?

• MP3 Player
• Bluetooth connectivity
• Camera + editor
• Calendar
• Calculator
• Alarm
• Video Player
• Internet
• Voice recorder
• Games
• Pincode (Security being very important)
• Good memory
• Calculator

We checked the Shine over and the team was pleased with the “functionality” as Corey put it

So we decided to look more closely at three aspects and rate it out of 10. We looked at aesthetics (how good looking is it!), ergonomics (how easy is it to use physically and in the interface) and functionality. These are what the team

Corey

Aesthetics: 9.8

Ergonomics: 8.5 

Functionality: 9.9

Overall: 8.9

Ryan

Aesthetics: 10

Ergonomics: 8 

Functionality: 10

Overall: 9.5

Hewson

Aesthetics: 10

Ergonomics: 8 

Functionality: 9.5

Overall: 9.5

These are their comments.

Ryan: “Buttons are hard to press and a bit big. But other than that a great phone!”

Corey: ” Buttons hard to press - not easy to use, weighs too much.”

Hewson: “Good settings but buttons are a bit iffy. The weight could be a problem.”

The children really enjoyed exploring and reviewing the technology in a constructive way and articulated their thoughts very well, they supported their opinions with concrete examples - such as the problem of weight when the pocket is in your tracksuit and you are running about.

Well done team you did a great job!

This afternoon I would like you to explore some mental arithmetic tests online, use your headphones and answer the questions with your partner. You need to enter the answers using the keyboard.

If you have finished, you can explore some more of the Carroll diagram work we have been doing over at this site.

Of course you can explore and read other blogs and leave comments - or write a post on our own.

Here are some new blogs to have a look at:

• The 6E Bunch - Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada.
• MiniLegends - Glenelg, South Australia.
• Strolling in the Orchard - Palmerston North, New Zealand.
• Room Twelve - Seattle, Washington, USA.

Today in literacy, we arranged different pictures of how to make a cup of tea, which were muddled up but we re arranged them into order.

We used sticky notes to write instructions for how to make a cup of tea.

by Connorg,Maisie,Cameron&James

Here is a bar graph how year 6 get to school.

This is a fictional set of data represented in a pie chart - can you answer some of the tricky questions below?

1. What percentage of children take the train to school?
2. What fraction of the children do NOT walk to school?
3. How many children are there in this Year 6 class?
4. How many more children take the bus than the train, tractor or bicycle?
5. What is the difference between the number of children walking and taking the bus?
6. What fraction of children take the bus?
7. Can you use the Create-a-Graph site to make a bar chart of the data in the pie chart.

This week we have been revising data handling - we have looked at line graphs and yesterday bar graphs.

This is a bar graph we have created for a set of tables test scores (out of 40 marks)

Can you answer these questions?

1. How many more children scored 26-30 points than 6-10 points?
2. Which range of scores did the least number of children achieve?
3. How many chldren scored between 16-35 points?

By reading the following instructions we hope you will be able to write a comment on ours and many other blogs.

You will need:

Computer
Internet access
Blog Address

What to do:

1. Open the Internet browser by double clicking the internet icon on the desktop (use Firefox or Internet Explorer)
2. Click on the address bar (located at the top of the browser window) then type in the class blog address. Click once on the green ‘go’ icon or press ‘enter’ on the keyboard.
3. Look and read through new and old posts searching for one of interest.
4. Move the cursor over the ‘comment’ button for the post and click once.
5. Scroll down and add your information; name, e mail address and your blog address (WARNING: Only use your first name and do not give out personal information)
6. Type in a positive comment ensure that it is checked for spelling mistakes and errors.
7. Scroll down and click once on the ’submit’ button.

This is a set of instructions on how to wash your body.

How to wash your body

Equipment:
water
flannel
sponge
body wash (soap)

1. Squeeze some body wash on to your hand under running water and disperse on the body.
2. Gently massage and smooth into the skin.
3. scrub with flannel or sponge (your choice)
4. Rinse off under water.

CAUTION:KEEP OUT OF EYES, MOUTH ALSO KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN AGED 1 OR UNDER.

By Ebony and Darcy

I’m up and running with my own blog account I am finding it very difficult so if any of you may have any tips please leave a comment

Today green table did magic tricks in literacy because we are doing instructions. Firstly we split the red card from the black cards. Secondly we put two cards at the front and one at the bottom and the fourth card in the middle.Lastly we got half of the pack and put it at the front .Next you look through the pack and there is three jacks together is that wierd or what!.

You will need:

cheese,bread,toasty machine and sauces to finish off

Instructions

1. First grater your cheese.
2. Sprinkle your cheese on the bread then put the other slice of bread on top.
3. Now you put your sandwich in the toasty machine.
4. wait for 4 minutes and then you take your toasty out and put it on a plate
5. wait 30 seconds for it to cool down then enjoy add sauce for extra flavour

By Shannon and Gary

In the last few days we have been working up to our Sat’s. All our class have done a Sat’s practice paper yesterday and it was a maths test. And we done test B in maths today, me and Hannah can’t wait till we get our results back from our teachers (Mrs Bloomfield and Mr Barrett) Hope you have fun blogging. By Hannah and Courtney!!!!!

Today in literacy we were learning about instruction text and it was good. Have you learned about instructional text? When we went to our table we did magic tricks. And we worked in partners and did magic tricks such has “jack attack”.

Today we completed a maths booklet all on mathematical questions some hard and some easy. For some the calculator was useful for some questions we worked out mentally. It was a fantastic challenge and hopefully we will have got most answers right fingers crossed.

Alanya and Lorna from priestsic6

This week we are doing instuctions in literacy, we are doing all sorts of activities
like how to make a slice of toast, but with a difference because the instructions were jumbled up and we had to rewrite them so they made sense!
We also had to do a wordsearch on different words to do with instructions.
We also did info on card tricks because that is a form of instructions we can follow.

Today in literacy we have been looking at instructional text, also we have been shortening it down into note form - here is an example of our class notes for instructions.

We used Gliffy the online diagram tool to organise our work.

(Click on the image for a clearer version)

This is our finished instructional note text.

By Darcy and Ebony.

Priestsic is fun although I don’t really like the news about SATS Attack!

By Ashley & James ‘~’

During the course of this half term we will be working on blogging activities. Why not try one of these:

• Write a positive comment, giving feedback on another class blog. (Use the links or “Blogroll” from our class blog or other school’s you find) Remember to ask interesting questions in order to spark a conversation with the authors.
• Write a post for our own class blog - you can write about interesting work done in school.
• Explore our Geovisitors.
• Take a look at their locations in Google Earth - try and find out something about that location or city - and write a post about it.
• When you are reading other class blogs ensure that you read older posts as well - not just the latest ones.

HAPPY BLOGGING!

Over the next two weeks we are looking at how to write effective instructions. In the first week we will be writing instructions about how to add useful comments to blogs. The year 3’s in our school will be our audience and we are also going to be writing for some children in classes in Sydney, Australia.

This is our introductory presentation to help us focus on the language features and what we need to do.

Thanks to Lindsay Carmichael and Primary Resources for the presentation.

We had a look at this great little times tables game on Friday, there is a free version that you can download at home. We will get them installed on the school machines and get using it after half term.

If you download it, why not leave a post or comment about what you thought of the game.

WOW!!

Over 2500 votes were cast during our new blog theme vote this week, we only have 31 children in our class!

These are the full results from PollDaddy.

Which new blog theme should we switch to?

China Red  62% (1590 votes)

Desert Theme  1% (17 votes)

Girls Suck  37% (950 votes)

Blue Radiant (current theme)  0% (8 votes)

LetterHead 1.0  0% (3 votes)

Total voters for this poll: 2568

As you can see from our new look China Red emerged the winner with 62% and 1590 individual votes!

It has been loads of fun and I am so pleased you kids enjoyed it - we will no doubt have many more votes about life in Priestsic6 very soon.

Mr Barrett

Hi i’m Courtney and i’m going to tell you what our maths lesson has been like today.We have been doing patterns and it has been really fun and my maths table teacher (Mrs Bloomfield) has really helped me alot, anyway here is a example of a pattern we have done - try and solve it.

There is 4 yellow counters at first then there is 2 black ones what colour would the 19th counter be? Blog me the answer.

Our last day at school was fantastic. First we did maths after break we did dictionary races see who could find a word the fastest and beat Mr Barrett (he thought he was the best). Then after dinner we did PE but it was raining so Joe our sports teacher helped us with some science work that needed finishing. After,we did comprehension on blood cells with Mrs Bloomfield. At 2:30 we did “Name in a Jar”. It’s where all week you get names in a jar for the good things you do. Anyway have a good week off, or have a good half term back.

Today in music we had a really great time. Me and my best friend Hannah worked in a group and we did all about space and it was called our space jorney it was a really cool and a great task.

Come on vote for china red on our wikispace the lines close at 3:00pm so help us get this new back ground.