Rocket Launch!

On Friday morning, every child in Year 5 had the opportunity to launch the rocket they had made. After our successful launch mission, the children produced a graph to show the distance travelled by each rocket. The children then worked out the mode, median, range and mean of the data.

After lunch, we wrote a short explanation text on how our rocket worked. The children demonstrated some excellent understanding of Sir Isaac Newtons Laws of Motion. Very impressive!! The children then worked hard to write their very own instruction texts. I was pleased with how much they had remembered from our instruction unit earlier in the year.

Here are some photos of our rocket launch. I was really impressed with the rockets the children made and it was obvious that they had put a lot of effort into their homework. Well done Year 5!

Launch time!

How did you make your rocket? How far did it travel? How could you have improved your rocket?

Blog Homework

On Friday, the children in Year 5 were sent home with a letter containing information about our class blog. As homework, they have been asked to comment on our space page. Comment number one should include three facts they have learnt so far and comment number two should be about the photos which have recently been uploaded.

I would like to say a big thank you to the family members who have took the time to share and comment on the blog with their children. Its great to have such fantastic support in Year 5 and be able to share our work with you! I look forward to seeing you in a few weeks time for our Joyning the Learning open afternoon.

Miss Sawicki

Space Year 5

This half term we have started our 'Joyning the Learning' topic- Space Explorers!

During this topic we will be given lots of different missions so that we can complete our NASA astronaut training!

This week we completed our first mission! We worked together in groups to transform our classroom into a NASA space station. Some of us draw and painted the moon, some of us made our very own space shuttle, and other children created a poster picture of a UFO visiting Area 51. Take a look at our amazing classroom. What do you think?

As part of this mission, we also had to find out about the space shuttle. We started by identifying the different parts of a rocket, including the payload, the engine, the fuel tank, rocket boosters and the control pit. We looked at different rockets and identified each section.

We then worked in pairs to find out about different space shuttles. We looked at Discover, Challenger, Columbia, Endeavour and Atlantis and created some great posters. The posters went straight up on our research wall. Here are some examples of our work:

We then found out about how a rocket works. This involved some complicated science but by the end of the lesson we were all able to explain in our own words how a rocket works. Take a look at our explanations:

On Friday, we will complete our mission on space shuttles by launching our own pop bottle rockets that we have made for homework.

Queen's Diamond Jubilee

During the last week of half term, Year 5 learnt all about the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. We found out lots of information about the Queen. We imagined that we had been made Queen or King for the day and wrote a biography about our life as a member of the Royal family.

We solved word problems about the Diamond Jubilee celebrations and created our own graphs displaying ticket sales for the celebrations.

At the very end of the week, our school hosted our own Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The children were asked to bring in their own food, and on Friday morning we made our own Diamond Jubilee themed cakes. Here are some photos from this great event:

Union Jack flag

Our school hall

All of our food!!

QCA Tests

Last week the children completed their end of year tests. I was extremely impressed with their hard work and concentration all week. Well done year 5! You should be very proud of yourselves.

As a reward for all of our hard work, we had a fantastic ice cream party outside. We then had fun playing lots of different games.

Miss Sawicki

IPOD

A new feature in our classroom is the Ipod touch. We can use the Ipod in the morning during registration or when we have finished our work. We have uploaded some fun games as well as some educational apps. The children have been very sensible with this new equipment and I have been very pleased with how well they have taken care of it. Well done year 5.

What apps would you like on the Ipod? Do you have any favourite apps that you use at home? Share any of your ideas below.

Here are some photos of us using the ipod:

Miss Sawicki

Olympic T shirts

We have been very busy designing brand new T-shirts for team GB to wear at the London 2012 Olympics. We spent a whole afternoon working in groups to plan our ideas. We thought carefully about what we wanted our designs to include. We then worked extremely hard to create our t-shirts. Each group had a plain white t-shirt to start with. We were provided with fabric paints, ribbon, letter stencils, glitter glue and Union Jack flags.

Miss Sawicki and Mrs Ali were very impressed with all of the t-shirts. Here are some photos of our brilliant t-shirts!