Year 5 gave a fantastic performance in this morning’s Year group assembly. From the back of the hall I could hear every word said clearly and feel the appreciation of families and the rest of KS2! I know the parents enjoyed hearing about learning in Science, Literacy and PE this term. Other teachers have told me how mature and composed you all seemed. Well done! What was your favourite part?
In Poplar this morning we were trying out some new trainee teachers….. each other!
In literacy, a small group of children were taught how to use ‘I’ and ‘me’ accurately depending on whether we were looking at the subject or object of the sentence. They then became teachers and cascaded the learning. The children used some interesting and innovative techniques and made full use of teaching aids. I think they loved it (maybe a little too much!) Let me know what you enjoyed most!
This afternoon all of year 5 collaborated in the hall to build our Rube Goldberg machines. We saw some very inventive ideas and had to do a lot of testing and adjusting to fix ‘bugs’ in our machines. Most of our machines worked with some success although it was harder then we predicted to make the machines work smoothly and we had to be incredibly resilient!
If you are lucky enough to attend our assembly you will be able to watch videos of our machines in action and see a wider selection of photos, we will also be creating a large scale Rube Goldberg machine! (Exciting!)
Here are the winning 4 poems! These children were then group leaders and taught the rest of the class their poems!
The Dazzling Ship by Melodie Tooke-Thompson
Do you ever go to sea
On a dazzling ship?
Ah! A greenhorn I see
There’s no time for a dip
Scrub the deck and raise the sail
There’s no rest for the wicked
Don’t stop or you will fail
We’ll lose you in the thicket
The Homesick Pirate by Milah Sharp
There was a homesick pirate
Her name was Mimi Moo
She wished to be upon the Roger
With all the other crew
I don’t know why, I guess she thought
It would be kind of cool
To be the greatest greenhorn
In the entire school
But now she hates pirates
And she always will
Because she has the black spot
All because of that snitch Bill
Now she haunts the Jolly Roger
As a ghastly ghost
Making people scream
She’s scarier than most
And now I will linger in the memory of your mind…
The Angry Pirate by Conner Turner
Have you ever been a sailin’
Across the deep-black sea?
The new recruits are ailin’
They’re all afraid of me
Searchin’ my sea for plunder
I’ve searched everywhere
As ships try to flee from me
Just hear my cannon flare
We prey upon unlucky fools
Running from the death-defying spot
We threaten other ships that sail
As my ships begins to rot
Until they catch and hang me
From the haunted gallows tree
Another and another greenhorns disappear…
Edward Teach by Alfie Crabb
There lived an evil pirate
His name was Edward Teach
He wished to go aboard a ship
And make some sailors screech
The crew happily welcomed him
And called him their lord
In fact they even were prepared
To fall upon the sword
After many years at sea
Edward became more feared
To sailors all around the world
With his nickname of Blackbeard
The crew told stories to greenhorns
About Blackbeard’s short life
Getting beheaded for his deeds
And about the after life…
We performed an amazing poem called A Pirates Life For Me . The children enjoyed it so much, they even spotted the doing verbs in our performance! When performing we had to remember these key features:
-Volume
-Pace
-Learn off by heart
-Enjoyment
-Expression
-Pauses
-Action
We would love to revisit KS1 and show them our creative talents!
Later in the week, we also wrote our own versions of the poem and learnt them for performing.
What topics would you like to cover in literacy?
Has anyone written any of their own poems at home?
By Milah & Kiana
In maths we worked in groups to solve some problems. We had to show resilience and work collaboratively to solve the tricky challenges.
Can you solve this problems from nrich? http://nrich.maths.org/5429
First to post the answer gets 3 DOJOS!
In Design & Technology Redwood have been building their own electronic buggies. They build the chassis from wooden bases using glue guns, they then decorated their chassis and added electronic motors to make their engines go!
They then raced outside of the classroom 🙂 Kayli, Melodie, Tegan & Milah’s group were very successful as well as many other groups. Even Mr Poyton made a guest appearance at the race!
A big thank you to Mrs Archer for all her help and preparation for the buggies 🙂
On Friday 8th January a group of 29 Year 5s and 6s walked to Chelmsford Sports and Athletics Centre with 4 teachers to represent the school in Sportshall athletics. The field events included javelin, standing high jump, long jump and triple jump and speed bounce. The track events included relays and obstacle events with children hurdling and going under various obstacles. The competition was fierce and all schools represented fielded highly motivated teams. All the children from LMPS impressed their teachers and spectators with their tremendous show of perseverance, passion and support for each other. More than one teacher also went home with a sore throat after cheering on the committed children. Although we didn’t win through to the next round on this occasion, we are immensely proud of your efforts and your exemplary behaviour. Well done!
One girl in year 6 deserves a special mention for receiving two special awards: For the highest Speed Bounce score of the WHOLE DAY; and a second award for support for her opponents. Simply fantastic!!
Although this might be a cryptic heading, read on and you might be surprised to find out that you recognise some examples of Rube Goldberg machines already!
Yr 5 have been learning about simple machine in science and are now learning about Rube Goldberg machines, which are more complicated machines made up from simple everyday objects. They get their name from the American cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg who designed wacky gadgets for carrying out everyday tasks.
We have watched videos of Rube Goldberg machines (you can watch too if you follow this link: http://coolmaterial.com/roundup/rube-goldberg-machines/ ) and discovered that we have seen similar machines before (For example; the games mousetrap and marble run, the traps in the home alone films and the crazy gadgets in Wallace and Grommit).
In literacy we are writing explanations of how a Rube Goldberg machine works and in science we will be building our own. Using the OK – Go video (from the link above)as our inspiration we are going to build our machines using everyday items that we can find ourselves. Next week we will be bringing in items from home and using items we can find in our classrooms to build our own machines. Keep checking the blogs for photos and videos of our marvellous machines.
