Megan's Christmas tune & message

Very creative and festive... Click to have a listen.

Click to read Megan's global Christmas message.

CaitlinB's Isle of Tune

Great beat Caitlin! Click me to listen.  Classdojo point for you!

Enjoy our documentaries

Year 5 has put a tremendous amount of hard work into producing these presentations.  

Although they are not long videos, much research went on about choosing which country to use and finding facts about them. Children then spent time writing their scripts for both the documentary and a newsflash. Meanwhile, designs and 3D models were created in plasticine for the escaping giants. You wouldn't believe how long it then takes to use professional stop frame animation software to produce animated models.  

Not only that but we also worked successfully in teams building our skills at talking and negotiating with each other. 

We hope you enjoy our hard work.!

Mangahigh Medals... Magnificent!

Wow! Look at all these medals in the last month. Well done. Tremendous work.

Persuasive radio show

The North Pole should be closed down.  Listen to our radio show and decide what you think!

Leah's superb winter poems

 Winter poem!
     
 In winter time the trees are bare
 Snow may fall and all will stare
 The animals hide, asleep they'll stay
 When Spring appears they go on their way
 In Winter time children play
 wrapped up warm, they stay all day
 Christmas comes and all will smile
 Carols sung and presents piled.

  Winter poem!

 In winter time trees are bare
 Children play without a care
 The air gets chilly and the floor gets slippy
 They slip and slide and act really silly
 People start putting there christmas decorations up
 They all start getting excited that it is nearly christmas
 They all wait for santa to come and drop there presents in at there home

Who's the ninja?

Great work this week on Sumdog. 

CJ Sumdog wants to buy new outfits too!

Ellie's ClassDojo Awards

Ellie just keeps on emailing me her Blockbuster Homework and I just keep on adding points to her rewards monster.  Well done Ellie - keep it up - you are working hard to achieve such a good spread of points!



Sumdog team - some of the girls

Great outfits girls!  Some expensive items there.  You're working hard!

100+ on Sumdog this week

At 5pm on Sunday night, we have a good list of children who have completed an item on their Blockbuster homework (and hopefully enjoyed themselves at the same time :-) ) Some people were in the high 90s for questions answered - still have time!

The Star Centre Sizzled!

We had a fabulous time at the Star Centre.  Enjoy snippets from our day...

All in an evenings work!

I am impressed all 3 of you - these must have been completed within the first hour after school! 

CJ Sumdog says, "Wow! Follow me to Sumdog.com - Great on a wet day. WHOOF!"

Ellie Goes Global to write a message

Check out Ellie's message using REAL locations from around the world.
Click this link. (not the picture)

I'm adding a homework point to your classdojo monster, Ellie... Fantastic! Thank you for sharing it.

No Way!

Come on Harry, we've got work to do!

Well done Joshua - you beat us to it...


THIS time :-)

Sumdog 100

Wow! This is the biggest proportion of the class so far that achieved 100 or more questions answered in one week.  Some people were in the 90s... so close.  Great work!

Mr Langley, our maths might help you!

Dear Mr Langley,

We've been working on a problem that Mrs Cole set us linked to this geocache which we believe you haven't yet found. We've been investigating the maths involved and have written some messages for you following your visit to Portugal to drop our Travel Bug using the same idea as this cache.

Here they are. If you need any clues, we've left you some links to tips at the bottom :-)

Warning: This link contains spoilers!!

Ellie C in Y5 - great music!

Take a look and don't forget to vote to say you like it!

http://isleoftune.com/?id=168563

Sneak preview

We're in the middle of creating documentaries interrupted by newsflashes.  We're sharing one newsflash for the moment as a sneak preview...  What do you think?

Guess!

Have a guess how many questions Joshua has answered since we started out on Sumdog.

Is that a direct challenge Harry?

Will Harry get his fins before Mrs Cole? 

She probably needs to work a bit harder!

Mangahigh medal winners

Just looked at how you're doing here and it's a good line up of medals Year 5.  Take a look:

This must be our best week yet on Sumdog

It's only Tuesday and take a look at those of us who have already or are well on the way to answering 100 questions this week.  Keep it up - we're cracking a pace with our learning both in school and at home!

Y5 use and apply multiplication skills

Just look at how well our teams have worked over the last couple of weeks to be able to answer these...

Great work team!

Sumdog TODAY

Wow!  Just look at how many children have already achieved or are well on their way to answering their 100 questions in a week on Sumdog.  ...And they've only just started today.

Well done!

Superb problem solving

This is the amazing using and applying workings from the subtraction that Y5 did a few weeks ago.

There's also a couple of photos from today's problem solving on multiplication...

Shhhhhh... We're having FUN!

Trundling along!

"While we were walking around the playground with the trundle wheel, we felt freezing but we finally came to a conclusion!" Emma and Lewis exclaimed to Joshua.

Multiplying problems

"When I tried that the first time, I 'epicly' failed but eventually I succeeded," Max replied in a shocked way.

Who are we?

On Sumdog, you have to work hard to be able to buy new outfits. 

Here's me and some of my team! You can see I haven't worked hard enough to earn my fins yet but I will eventually. 

Max: entertaining style

I should really be marking but I'm taking a moment again to show off an extract of Max's work. (I'm thoroughly enjoying all your work Year 5.) Take a look at this...

On the stormy and windy day that you heard about at the beginning of the story, Ruben was standing in the dead abandoned field eating a banana when, out of nowhere, came two gargoyles flying out at him! "They look like marble so they must be statues!" Ruben exclaimed. What is going on? Ruben didn't have time to think about that. He just managed to duck in time.

Sammy: magnificent mood factors!

Check out some of Sammy's phrases to build up suspense. This is just what we were looking for!

It was all dark inside the house.

The bats kept coming through the window.

The trees kept scraping across the house.

Caitlin M: delightful phrases

I'm currently enjoying marking Year 5's Dahl-style story writing and am just pausing to share a couple of snippets from Caitlin's work...

Now, Ruben was in a tough position.

After a short time of thinking...

As he entered the mysterious house, he didn't notice the statue by the tree was watching his every move.

And finally, my favourite:

Was this the end for little Ruben?

Mangahigh Medals

Well done to these people...

I love your resilience to keep trying until you achieved your goals!

Algebra request

Another great comment today from Joshua in Y5, "Please could you set up some algebra for me to do on Sumdog?"

We certainly can Joshua... Keep looking at your account!

Having fun learning about Panto

We had an hilarious afternoon yesterday learning about what goes on behind the scenes at a pantomime.

The grand finale

Enthusiastic learners sparking each other

I loved this comment from Harry in Y5 as he left school today, "Make sure you go on Sumdog as soon as you get home!"

Daring Division Sumdog 100+

Well done to these children for scoring over 100 on the Daring Division competition on Sumdog.

There's still time left to get your name up here... You can do it!

Enjoy the homework beat!

Enjoy Caitlin B's musical homework. 

When I listened, I loved the rhythm she created - what did you think?

http://isleoftune.com/?id=148030

Top Spellers

Look at the results... we've been practising our spellings.  These are the children in Y5 who used Education City and came out with 100% last week.  Some people were very close :-)

Well done!

Sumdog Subtraction Stars

See who's top of the league table for the Subtraction Challenge...

As CJ Sumdog played, she managed to say,
"Well done Y5! I like my sticks and my friend Bessie. 
Make sure you play out too!"

Year 5 animators

Are we developing the next Wallace & Grommit animators.  Have a look and see what Katy & CaitlinM have achieved...

Great sentence work

Well done Ellie W, Lui, Ellie C and Emma.

This week on Sumdog...

A fine week of fun, games and learning.  Well done!  Blake and Jack I know you'll hit the 100 target this week - so close already :-)





Sumdog since we started...

If you've made it onto here, you've averaged more than 100 questions per week. That might not mean you've done 100 every week but every question is giving you LEARNING POWER!

Well done - keep it up. 

By the way - there's a new range of sports clothes to buy with the points you earn on Sumdog.  Click this link to have a look.



CJ is impressed but says, "Make sure you play out too!  Work hard and play hard (like me!)"



Maths challenge CaitlinM and LaurenG

Great work!

Maths challenge by Ellie C

Well done!

Maths challenge by Lauren M

Well done!

Can anyone work out approximately how many sums have been done in total this week? Leave a comment!

Come on Caitlin M - can you hit 100 this week?



CJ Sumdog and buddy Scooby enjoying the sun - hope you did too!
"Well done peeps!" they said.



Subtraction - what we know so far

We've been working out what Y5 already know about subtraction so we know what to teach them next...

Sumo Paint art from Ellie

Beautiful rotational symmetry...

Looks like a Catherine Wheel on Bonfire Night, don't you think?

Sumdog and it is only day TWO!

Look at the results already. Year 5, your maths is going to rock this year!

Well done from dreamy CJ Sumdog...

Lauren and Caitlin's persistence paid off

Super use of reflecting on the maths tools we have learnt to solve problems.

This is one of our Learning Power Rs!  You did well!

Katy wrote using 3D & surround sound words

The horror of the pussing, scarlet warts bubbled upon the wobbly terrifying body of the deafening thing.

Wow... Keep it up Katy!

Successful, enjoyable and active problem solving

...with a great team.