Spelling Words for week ending 27/11/09

Spelling Words for week ending 27/11/09

A,e,i,o,u words – unstressed vowels, vowels that could be missed when the words are said.

1. Family
2. Different
3. Generally
4. Marvellous
5. Generous
6. Interesting
7. Miserable
8. Boundary
9. Factory
10.Separate
11. Listener
12. Easily
13. Lottery
14. Conference
15. Library
16. Offering
17. Explanatory
18. Temperature
19. Dictionary
20. Vegetables
21. Literacy
22. Voluntary
23. Secretary
24. Prisoner
25. Necessary

A Visit from the Welsh Assembly Government, Ogwyn Davies Art Work, Geography - Journey to the Bay and PESS Gymnastics

We were so busy on Monday - Thursday last week!

Here you can see the children using maps to try and make a human map of the journey from Pontyclun to Cardiff Bay.

They had to focus on compass points, ensuring that they were lating in the correct direction. Additionally, they had to use their numeracy skills in order to work out the kilometres along the journey and decide how many people were to represent each road.

Super geography skills and a fun lesson for all! Da iawn.

Here we can see part two of our art project from last week. The children had to apply the lessons they had learnt about Ogwyn Davies and his love of incorporating writing into his pictures and adapt this idea for their own picture. They used the words "Ogwyn Davies" and "Tregaron" in different fonts.

We had an exciting morning this morning with a visit from Dilwyn from the National Assembly for Wales.

He provided us with plenty of information about our trip to the Bay next week and our visit to the Assembly.

We learnt about the different political parties, the number of assembly ministers, what the assembly can make decisions on etc... and how much money the assembly have to spend.

We finished the day with a gymnastics lesson. Both classes were practising their shapes and performed sequences with their talking partners.

A busy week! Problem Solving Day tomorrow!

European Presentations

This week the children have been performing their speaking and listening task for the term (communication skills): European Presentations. Each child produced a short presentation on a Eurpoean country. Some used powerpont to aid their performance (ICT skills), all included numeracy facts (numeracy skills) and intersting information. Sll of the presentations were amazing and pictures can be seen lower down the blog. The following are the powerpoint presentations taht were created. They were fantastic, well done to all of you who worked hard on these.

Spain
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AcMgTYsQ-M1DZGN4ZzhkdHFfMzMweG1zNWJkZDY&hl=en

Portugal
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AcMgTYsQ-M1DZGN4ZzhkdHFfMzEzZzdzZHdiZnM&hl=en

Poland
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AcMgTYsQ-M1DZGN4ZzhkdHFfMjk1aG41Y3J2ZHQ&hl=en

Sweden
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AcMgTYsQ-M1DZGN4ZzhkdHFfMjc5Z3Y1M3I4bjI&hl=en

Portugal
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AcMgTYsQ-M1DZGN4ZzhkdHFfMjUwaGhnN3h4ZGI&hl=en

Denmark
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AcMgTYsQ-M1DZGN4ZzhkdHFfMjM3Zzdzam1iZ3I&hl=en

Cyprus
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AcMgTYsQ-M1DZGN4ZzhkdHFfMjIyY2c3ZzcyZmQ&hl=en

Belgium
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AcMgTYsQ-M1DZGN4ZzhkdHFfMTgzaGIybTJwZjY&hl=en

Art Project - Ogwyn Davies

This afternoon, J5 and J6 started their art project for the half term.




















We are studying the work of Welsh artist "Ogwyn Davies" who lives in Tregaron.


Ogwyn Davies uses writing within his art work and we looked at some of his pieces this afternoon.




















A friend of Mrs Marlow used to live near Ogwyn Davies and has managed to get his address. As a class, we decided to write him a letter.

Here you can see J5 coming up with interesting questions to ask him in our letter.

The children thought carefully and wrote questions such as

1. What inspired you to use welsh writing within your art work?
2. When did you first decide to become an artist and why?
3. What do the words mean within your work?
4. How should we approach our art project, which is similar to your "Wal Gymreig" piece?
5. Any advice you would give us before we start our project?

The children have been set a home challenge to collect different types of fonts and lettering etc form any resource e.g. Internet, packages, magazines, newspapers and have been asked to bring them in next Wednesday.

Changing State - Solids, Liquids and Gases

Today in year 5 we looked had a science morning. Firstly look atthe following website to model what happens when we change the state of certain materials ICT skills: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/materials/solids_liquids/play.shtml

We then worked in groups to tried to match definitions to key vocabulary communication skills E.g.Evaporating, Condensation etc: We used our thinking skills to rank how confident we were in our predictions. Green = confident, orange= fairly confident, red=not sure.

We used ICT to present our findings.

Finally we went to the hall to play the solids, liquids and gases game: can you work out which is which?

ICT in Maths

As so many of you enjoyed the maths addition ICT programme that we used this morning, I thought I would put the address on the web.

Have a go - even challenge Mum, Dad, Nan, Grandad, Brother, sister etc... I think that the grown ups should have less time than you - so don't forget to alter it! Or perhaps they should start on the level three challenge.

Level 1

http://resources.oswego.org/games/SpeedGrid/Addition/urikares.html

Level 2

http://resources.oswego.org/games/SpeedGrid/Addition/urikaadd2res.html

Level 3

http://resources.oswego.org/games/SpeedGrid/Addition/urikaadd3res.html


Good Luck!

Spelling Test for Monday - Geographical Vocabulary

Hello Year 5,

As we have been developing our geographical vocabulary this week, I have chosen 25 geography words to learn for next Monday. The words are linked to six areas - location, physical features, human features, settlements, population and climate.

1. location
2. estimate
3. direction
4. distance
5. route
6.coastline
7. mountains
8. landscape
9. view
10.apartments
11.retail
12. offices
13. buildings
14.village
15. suburb
16. urban
17. rural
18.development
19.temperature
20.climate
21.average
22.migration
23.immigration
24.people
25.population