Out and About in the Springtime!

Year 5 and 6 have had two trips this half term!  Woop woop!  As part of our D&T Unit about designing and making a fairground ride we went to Making It! in Mansfield.  It was a fantastic day and we came back with some great models of carousels as well as great ideas about moving parts.

We also went to Dovedale to look at the River Dove for our geography unit all about Rivers.  It was the most amazing day!  Father God blessed us with incredible weather and we even managed to make it up Thorpe Cloud for a very windy sketching session.

We hope you enjoy the pictures...

Reading instructions carefully.

Our marvelous guide and helper for the day!

Hard at work on their carousels.

Happy with her work so far.

Setting off on our trip up the River Dove.

Crossing the Stepping Stones!  We all made it across safely.

Stopping for a snack.

It really was a beautiful day!

We had our lunch in a cave.  We were joined by some very friendly ducks.

At the top of Thorpe Cloud!  We made it!  It was a hard climb up but most of us thought it was worth it.

Crossing the bridge and heading home.

Tough Plants!

Our Science unit this half term is looking at chains and webs and as part of that we have spent the first few lessons of the year focusing on the start of any food chain, plants and their relationship with the sun.  We did a two week long experiment looking at 4 plants and what happened when we denied them things which we thought they needed.  Our results were very interesting and mainly showed that plants can survive quite a lot (including being put in a box and given no water!).  We put together the photos we took over the two weeks and made a time lapse video showing our plants growing.  You can see it below.  From left to right the plants had: 

Water and No Light.  No Water and No Light.  Light and No Water.  Water and Light

We are now being nice to the plants and have a lovely mini classroom garden which also contains a hyacinth and some daffodils that Caleb's Crew planted before Christmas.

Slippers

After weeks of hard work and a few major setbacks the slippers finally got finished (and after weeks of trying to work out where he put the photos Mr Snowdon finally got them on the Blog!).  All of the students worked incredibly well on them and we're very proud of the results.  Special thanks to Mrs Morgan for her help with needles and the like.  Enjoy them!

 

Victorian Timeline

Cassie, Ella, Olivia and Savannah's 'Granny's Guide'

Granny's Guide to Blogging

What is a blog?

A blog is a website that you can create yourself and post information about yourself and what you've been doing. You can post photos and videos too.

1. Open Internet Explorer then type blogger.com in the search bar and press enter.
2. This will take you onto a page that will say Gmail. (Gmail is an emailing website.)
3. Then fill in the personal details page and if anything goes wrong click the back arow in the top left corner. Once you have done that press enter.
4. Click Create Unlimited Blogger.
5. After you have finished go to the display name box and type in what you want your character name to be.
6. Then press new blog and type in the title of your blog.
7. Then choose what you want your background to be like.
8. After that type in your web address (do not put any spaces or full stops.)
9. Then type in what you want to put in your blog.
10. Then press publish. You have made a blog!
11. Once you have done that press veiw blog.

By Cassie, Ella, Olivia and Savannah

Polly, Sophie, Miriam and Rea's 'Granny's Guide'

Granny's Guide to Blogging

A blog is a website for you to write about yourself. They are personal imformation for other people to see.

1.        Turn on the computer and go onto google. Go onto the address bar, the adress bar is a long rectangle at the top of the screen. Type in blogger.com then press enter.

2.        Click on sign up and fill in your details and type the numbers in the following picture. Then click next step.

3.        Now click back to Blogger.

4.        Type in your display name then click continue to blogger. Now click new Blog.

5.       Now choose your template and type in your title. Then press the tick when you are there click the pencil.

6.        Now type your text and title. Once you have typed your text you have to highlight it and you can make it bigger or smaller. You can make it different colours and you can change fonts and underline it.

7.        When you are happy with your Blog click publish and your done.

                                                WELL DONE!

By Polly, Sophie, Miriam and Rea

Charlotte and Hepzi's 'Granny's Guide'

Granny's Guide to Blogging

A blog is a website that you can put information about yourself, your life and sometimes other people. You can post regularly and put photos and videos on of yourself. This is how:

·        Go to Internet Explorer. Write into the address bar, at the top of the screen, Blogger.com.

·        Press the sign up button in the right hand corner to start.

·        Fill in your details and information by clicking in the boxes and typing. Next prove your not a robot by filling in the text above. If you're blind you can also listen to it.

·        Click next step. Then go back to blogger.

·        Press limited blog not google +, because google + is different.

·        Choose a display name or what you want people to know you by. Click continue to blogger then new blog.

·        Choose a title then an address, most addresses are taken so have lots of ideas.

·        Click create a blog. Pick a design.

·        When you want something on your blog, click the little orange pencil in the right hand corner. It's like an online diary, you need a title.

 

Now press publish. If you want to look at your blog press view blog.

By Charlotte and Hepzi