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)
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. […]
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 […]
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?
What percentage of children take the train to school?
What fraction of the children do NOT walk to school?
How many children are there in this Year 6 class?
How many more children take the bus than […]
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?
How many more children scored 26-30 points than 6-10 points?
Which range of scores did the […]
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:
Open the Internet browser by double clicking the internet icon on the desktop (use Firefox or Internet Explorer)
Click on the address bar (located at the top of […]
This is a set of instructions on how to wash your body.
How to wash your body
Equipment:
water
flannel
sponge
body wash (soap)
Squeeze some body wash on to your hand under running water and disperse on the body.
Gently massage and smooth into the skin.
scrub with flannel or sponge (your choice)
Rinse off under water.
CAUTION:KEEP OUT OF EYES, MOUTH ALSO KEEP AWAY […]
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 […]
You will need:
cheese,bread,toasty machine and sauces to finish off
Instructions
First grater your cheese.
Sprinkle your cheese on the bread then put the other slice of bread on top.
Now you put your sandwich in the toasty machine.
wait for 4 minutes and then you take your toasty out and put it on a plate
wait 30 seconds for it to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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.
We have been doing about problems in maths. Some have been really tricky but some are easy.
And today we looked at this question:every year a person gets their age in candles eg.when 1 years old 1 candle.
Altogether how many candles would the person have blown out at 75 years old.
Please post a comment.
This week we have been exploring explanatory texts. We used Gliffy (an online diagram tool) to create this diagram of the process of a drive belt working for a bike.
Click on the image to see a clearer, larger version.
What do you think of our work?
Can you think of any other examples of explanatory texts?
In maths today we have been driven mental by this difficult maths.
Can you find out the way to solve it?
You can only use a number once.
Each row of 3 must add up to 15.
All 8 houses must equal 36.
We are thinking about changing the theme for our blog - perhaps a new fresher look with more room to write some great posts and add some photos of the work we are doing.
We have decided on 5 themes and created a poll for you to vote over on our wikispace.
We would appreciate you helping […]
Last week we read a book called Baleen.This book is about 1 selfish wHale called Baleen and another kind hearted wHale called Blunt.Baleen roams the sea looking to challenge anyone who sees him. One day he goes out and sees this whale. He swims up and bites him on his fin and a bone gets […]
