THAMES BARRIER!!!!! (And more!!!)

This week in year 5 we have been doing maths. We have been making pictures out of co-ordinates. The pictures we have been making was an alien and a butterfly. The butterfly was really hard.

On Monday we have went to the THAMES BARRIER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was soooooooo exciting that we wanted to stay for more FUN!!! One class went to the river walk and the other class stayed in and had a quiz . Then in a couple hours we had lunch,we went to the gift shop and then we swapped. (FACT) Did you know that the Thames Barrier has been protecting london for 28 YEARS!!!!!! And its protecting london just incase of floods.

On Thurday and Friday we have started learning about THE AZTECS!!!!! We watched a Video about what they did at that time and what it was like to be an Aztec.

Thames Barrier JT

Thames Barrier

This week in year 5, we visited the Thames Barrier on Monday. We learned about the river and the history about the river.

Our teachers was John and Katy, John taught us inside and Katy taught us outside by

the river. There was a big tunnel with all the answers we needed! John taught us about the animals that live in the river. Did you know that the salmon is the fussiest fish and if the water is a little bit polluted,the salmon would go away but only the bloodworm would stay!

In the Victorian times, the Thames was badly polluted! Because the Victorians used to wash and do there business in there. The factory's chucked old oil in the Thames too!

Back from holidays!!!!

This week in 5H we have been making roses and writing to our chinese penpals!!!We have learnt the rules of rounders. On Thursday we have been learning about Christianity and Earth and Space!!! Did you know that pluto is the coldest planet because its so far from the sun!!! Today we have finished our letters and we celebrated St Georges Day. We dressed up as red and white so he knows we celebrated him. Next week on Monday we are going to the Thames Barrier and we are going to have lots of FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In ICT we have been doing powerpoints. We had to insert pictures without copying or pasting.

SC JT(Space,China and Jeffrey,Tara)

China Penpals

This week in yr5 we have recieved our penpal letters from China! We all recieved are own personel letters.We read them and replied to them, and we had to step up on the presentation! After we finished writing them in best,we decorated them with colored paper and colouring pencils! Tara wrote to a girl called Zhang Whou who is a sport lover! Jeffrey wrote to a girl called Emma and she likes KFC!!

Space...The Final Frontier

This week in science, we have been learning about Space. And how all the planets revolve around each other. Like how the Earth orbits the Sun(Which is a huge ball of Gas) and the Moon orbits the Earth. We also acted out the Solar Sytem, Jeffrey was the Sun, Ayo was Earth and Jyothi was the Moon. Eventually, everyone got very very dizzy!!

KARATE!!!!

This week was sports relief week, part of sports relief week year 5 learnt some Karate with sansei Katie and sensei Daniel. Katie was world champion in 2005 and is Mrs Hurry
daughter. Daniel and Katie are BOTH black belts.

First we done some warm-ups like: jogging on the spot, jumping up and down (lightly on our toes), star jumps and sit ups.Then we learnt numbers 1-5 in Japanese.

Here are some videos to show you what we did.

Mothers Day!

As you all can see, on Sunday 14th March 2010, it is going to be Mothers Day!
In year 5, we have been making mothers day hearts, for our mothers.

We got a heart template, and we all cut it out. Then Mr Miller gave us some different coloured felt, then we traced the template on the felt.


Then we cut the felt out, then we traced it again on a different colour felt, and cut it out again, twice.

After, the teacher told us to have a little heart in the middle of the bigger heart, in a different colour.
When we done that, we got a needle and sew the little heart to the big heart, and we done the same with the other hearts.

Once we done all of that, we then after had to sew some sequins, and beads on them, on both sides.

We decorated both sides and it looked beautiful, then we had to do blanket stitch around the outside of the heart, then we left a little gap near the end, or anywhere, and stuffed cotton wool in it, and blanket stitched it again till it is done.

They look absolutely beautiful!

Thank you to all mothers in the whole world who look after us. Especially my mum Miryam I love you, from Juan Rosero, and I love you to Saddaf, from Zaynah Mahmood.

And don't forget Sunday, Mothers Day!

Written by Juan Rosero and Zaynah Mahmood.

THE EASTER PLAY!

In year 5, we have been focusing on our play! The play is Cinderella by Roald Dahl (Revolting Rhymes). you might think you know this story, but you don't! It is by Roald Dahl so there is a little twist in the play.The play is on: 23rd of March 2010, doors open 6:30, play starts at 7:00. The

venue is Glade Primary School-main hall. DON'T BE LATE!!!