Night at the Museum

Here we are telling our story; 'Night at the Museum'

Now we know it by heart, we're going to work on using lots of expression in our storytelling!

Our cliffhanger story

Here is the story map for our story so far. 

Times tables

We have tried really hard with our times tables work this week and for homework we have to practice even more!


Here is a picture of the homework sheet

Click here to find links to lots of times tables games too!

Remember to have a go at the Sumdog times tables challenge as part of your homework. 

Opaque, transparent or translucent?

In Science this week we have been investigating the best material for making blinds for the Colosseum in Rome. 

 

We began by sorting materials as to whether we thought they were transparent, translucent or opaque. 

After predicting which material we thought would be best we then used the Dataloggers to measure which type of material was the most opaque.

Next week we will be making graphs of our results!

What did you learn during the experiment? Comment below! 

We are Historians!

In our History lesson this week we looked at time lines. We used our Maths skills to order the dates of the events in Ancient Roman times.

Click here to look at lots of different timelines

Comment below what you now know about BC and AD times!

Our Harvest Gifts

Thank you for all your wonderful harvest donations today! We had a wonderful time celebrating harvest at the Abbey and everyone sang and presented beautifully! 

Well done Shining Stars!

                            

                                    

Super homework!

This week Charlie has written a fantastic information text about sharks. Well done Charlie

The Roman Empire

BToday in our theme lesson we have been working on our history and geography skills to find out how far the Roman Empire spread across Europe! We were able to find the names of lots of countries using the atlas too! 

                             

Jayden's map

                              

Tegan's map

 

We then used tracing paper to colour in where the Romans invaded and made the Empire. 

                              

                             

   

   

Tom's Midnight Garden

We are learning this version of Tom's Midnight Garden, can you practice with the actions and your story map at home?

Again it had been a boring day for Tom, spent waiting for the drizzle to stop at his Auntie Gwen’s where he’d spent the last six days while his Mum and Dad had some sort of 'Romantic break' in Rome. As he lay in his lumpy, uncomfortable bed he's gotten angry that he was stuck here in Bath, miles from his friends, in a flat with literally nothing to do. He was especially angry that he simply couldn’t get to sleep. He was quite certain that by now it was past midnight and, being a sensible eight year old, he knew for a fact he was going to be just as grumpy in the morning too. Aunt Gwen was definitely going to put that dreadful dishwasher on again as soon as she’d had her breakfast, he just knew it.　



Staring at the thin, laced cobwebs that dangled from the corners of the room, all he could hear was the irritating grandfather clock ticking away in the cold, uninviting entrance of the building. Ding Dong! It’s deep, unmistakable sound echoed through the hall way. It had become such a familiar sound that now he barely even noticed it, even when it sang it’s sweet song at full volume on the strike of each and every hour. Thoughts from the day raced through Tom’s mind, whirling together all at once like alphabet soup. Tossing and turning wildly, this was the last thing Tom needed.　 Counting ten dongs, then eleven dongs, and at last, the twelfth dong, "Finally," Tom muttered, "I thought that was never, ever going to end."　




Dong!



"Really?" he exclaimed, feeling increasingly exasperated. Tom had decided that keeping so quiet for the last four hours was now at an end, it was also time for this budding engineer to investigate why on earth a seemingly normal clock had just struck thirteen. He sat up in bed, carefully moving that evening’s reading that consisted of two Spiderman comics (read cover to cover, twice) a rather dull text book of his cousins on electric motors and his over due library book on Romans with a rather grand looking Roman Centurion on the cover, dressed in glinting gold amour.

He slid out of bed, slipped on his slippers and sneaked out his bedroom door and into the dark, musky scented corridor of his Aunts flat.　


   Old newspaper, sweet wrappers and cans littered the floor. The landing on which he found himself was very dim, making it tricky for Tom to avoid the towering mountains of rubbish left by Aunt Gwen’s messy neighbours. He pressed on with his job and eventually got down to the grandfather clock, its face was altered slightly and it’s Roman numerals had some how got wet and had begun to blur into one another looking almost like a strange painting.



"Hmm, I can’t fix that," Tom whispered, running his hands across the clock face. His mind drifted as he gazed at it. It reminded him of the golden evening sun that shone through his bedroom window at home. What was happening? He wondered to himself. At that moment, something caught Tom’s eye. "I’ve never seen that there before, I wonder where it goes" Tom whispered. Beside the tall grandfather clock now stood a door. A door unlike any other he’d seen before. Tom thought of the doors he’d read of in his book about Rome, made of the finest oak with gleaming brass rivets and hinges. Standing on his tiptoes, he could just about reach the handle. Tom turned it slowly and found himself somewhere altogether more interesting….

Teeth

We have just begun learning all about our new science topic of teeth. Here is a fantastic website that has links to games and lots of fun facts about teeth!

 http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/revision/science/living/teeth.html

Silver Party!

The children in class have worked so hard to gain their silver awards that we had a lovely celebration in the afternoon that ended with a delicious chocolate fountain! Here are some snaps of our celebration:

Egyptian Homework

A big thank you to all of the children who made such a fantastic effort with their Egyptian homework. The children have loved learning about this history topic, especially all of the gruesome information about mummification!

 

World Book Day!

The children all made a fantastic effort of dressing up for World Book Day, here are some pictures of how we looked!