Cruiser speaks!

Yesterday we interviewed our reading dog Cruiser on the impact of his reading sessions with our pupils.

Throw another shrimp on the barbie mate....

We have been learning about standard and non-standard English when reading Morris Gleitzman's 'Toad Away'.

Yesterday we investigated word origins and tweeted new verses to John Agard's 'Reporting from the front line of the great dictionary disaster' to our class Twitter feed @lps140club.

Today we have been learning some Australian slang and Gwyrdd and Porffor had a go at writing a conversation between Limpy and Goliath using as much slang as they could. Oh, and prepare for some really bad Aussie accents. They are far from ripper!

Goliath's declaration of war against humans in the style of Winston Churchill

We have been busy writing speeches as Goliath from Morris Gleitzman's 'Toad Away', declaring war on humans. We took inspiration from Winston Churchill's 'fight on the beaches' speech. We also tied to use idioms to enhance the writing.

Here are our efforts:

Antoine

Ben

Catherine

Cerys

Charles

Chelsey

Chloe

Cory

Edward

Emily

Gethin

Jack

Jared

Jay

Jordan Wa.

Jordan Wh.

Joshua

Maya

Onyx

Rebecca

Shani

Sophie

Tawfiq

William

Winston Churchill + an angry cane toad = war?

Next week we will be writing a declaration of war on the human race by Goliath in Morris Gleitzman’s ‘Toad Away’. We are going to attempt to do this by splicing it with the famous rallying call from Winston Churchill during World War Two in his ‘We will fight them on the beaches’ speech.

Here’s the audio of that speech.

How are we going to get on with using that as inspiration for writing a rallying call/declaration of war by cane toads on humans.

What a Wonderful World

This half term our class will be immersing ourselves into the topic ‘What a Wonderful World’. This topic has a geographic focus and teaches children about the geographical and historical significance of the 7 Ancient Wonders and the 7 New Wonders of the world whilst challenging them to think of what would be considered as the 7 Wonders of Wales.

Here’s a comparison between the Ancient and New 7 wonders of the world.

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As part of our Literacy Spine author focus, we will be studying the works of Morris Gleitzman and in particular, the novel ‘Toad Away’.

You can read the first chapter of the novel here

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In PE we will be studying Orienteering and on swimming, our class and Year 3/4 will be going swimming to Llantrisant Leisure Centre on Monday mornings. Pupils will need to wear swimming trunks and not shorts (boys) and all in one swim suits not two pieces (girls) along with goggles and hats.

Romeo and Juliet, a modern update!

All week the class have been busy writing their modern day retellings of Romeo and Juliet. We drew up a toolkit and then boxed up the original Romeo and Juliet and then our versions. As a class we decided that for our shared write, we would cast the Montague and Capulets as two rival supermarkets, have the two lovers meet at the Capulet ‘Employee of the month’ award and replace the potion with a dodgy horse burger… Glas, melyn and oren took their versions from the ideas inspired by the shared write whereas Porffor and Gwyrdd allowed their imaginations to run free when writing theirs.

Here’s their final efforts (Opens as PDF)

Porffor:

Chloe Yr6 (Was absent for part of the week, so continued from the shared write that day) 

Jack Yr6

Jordan Wa Yr6

Jordan Wh Yr6

Maya Yr5

Shani Yr6

Gwyrdd:

Ben Yr5

Cerys Yr5

Charles Yr5

Rosie Yr6

Sophie Yr5

Tawfiq Yr5

Oren:

Antoine Yr5

Jared Yr5

Jay Yr5

Mikey Yr5

Onyx Yr5

Rebecca Yr5

Glas:

Catherine Yr5

William Yr5

Melyn:

Edward Yr5

Emily Yr6

Joshua Yr5

Bottle Rockets

A bit late editing this together but here’s a few videos of our scientific enquiry into plastic bottle rockets and how they fly. The questions that our thinking groups were investigating were:

Does the shape of a bottle affect how far a bottle rocket travels?

Will a smaller bottle rocket go further than a big one?

Will adding aerodynamic features make a bottle rocket go further?

Does the amount of water affect how far a bottle rocket travels?

Does the angle of the launcher affect the distance a bottle rocket travels?