The physical geography of South America – homework 16.11.15

In Geography we are learning about South America. The physical Geography of a place includes the study of natural features such as mountains, rivers, coasts, biomes, climates and the water cycle. For homework today please research 5 facts about the physical geography of a South American country using the following websites.

Country Fact File: Peru!

Brazil facts: discover this super-cool country!


http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/countries/chile.html
http://education.nationalgeographic.co.uk/encyclopedia/south-america-resources/

Homework is due Wednesday 18th November.

Our Royal Festival Hall Performance!

WOW! Well done to Class 5 for their spectacular performance at the Royal Festival Hall yesterday evening (Wednesday 11th November). Since last half term, Class 5 have spent their music lessons learning and composing a variety of songs with a wonderful musician, Pete Letanka. It all culminated last night in a one-off performance. For those of you who missed the jazz concert, here are a couple pictures. The videos will follow shortly.

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A Busy First Term!

As part of World Faith week, at the beginning of last half term, Class 5 looked at two traditional religious stories. We compared the themes within the story of Rama and Sita, and the story of Hanukkah. Both stories linked with our theme of light. The pictures below show the children recreating sections of the story through a series of freeze frames.

 

In literacy last half term we based most of our writing around a book, Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson. Please ask your child to explain what has happened in the book so far!

Class 5 have written diary entries as Maia (the main character). As well as a persuasive letter that aimed to entice Maia to stay in London rather than go to live in the Amazon. We have also written an amazing descriptive narrative. Our descriptive narratives were created carefully by firstly producing a post-it note plan. Here the children were given the stimulus for what should be put in each paragraph so that they could focus on using a range of descriptive devices and generating descriptive phrases.  A paragraph at a time, the children then wrote and edited their stories. The finished narratives are spectacular, all members of Class 5 are proud of their work (as they should be).

Stars and Planets were the focus of our latest piece of writing as the children produced an information leaflet, the result of which can be seen on the Science display board in school (pictured below).