Shared Writing: Our poem "Animal Sounds"

This week in literacy we have read Hunter poems of the Yoruba, a people from West Africa. They said poems by heart, about the animals they hunted. We read about the elephant and the leopard. We identified metaphors and similes in the poems.

We listened to animal sounds on tape and using our white boards, we wrote what those sounds reminded us of. These are some of our selected metaphors. We hope you like it.

The Earth, Sun and Moon

Our classroom display

Fireworks in the night sky

Winning Science poster

Our Science topic last half term was "The Earth, Sun and Moon". Our four reading groups researched, designed and produced an informative poster. The "Jammy Dodgers" was the winning group.

Writing to Persuade "Adverts"

We identified the features of adverts in examples and went on to create our own Advert to persuade people to give up smoking.

Writing to Persuade "A Happy Tail"

Year 5.2 have written persuasive leaflets for a dog shelter called "A Happy Tail".

Water

Watercolours of Water

Easter Gardens

In World Religion we read about the Christian tradition of creating Easter Gardens at Easter time. Christians believe that the garden represents life and is a reflection of their belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

We made our gardens using a lid from a shoe box, coloured card, soil, pebbles, tin foil and plasticine.

Removing soluble particles by evaporating

Filtering Experiment

W.A.L.T. remove insoluble particles from dirty water by filtering

What we used: APPARATUS
filter paper, a funnel, dirty water, a beaker

What we did: METHOD
1. We folded the filter paper in quarters.
2. We placed the filter paper in the funnel.
3. We placed the funnel in the beaker.
4. We carefully and slowly poured the dirty water into the filter paper.
5. We waited.

What happened: RESULT
Seemingly cleaner water trickled though the funnel into the beaker. Insoluble particles remained in the filter paper.

What we learnt: CONCLUSION
By filtering water, we removed insoluble particles from dirty water but we learnt that filtering does not remove bacteria.

Still life: personal objects

Still Life: Apples and oranges in oil pastels