Olympic Torch Relay

The torch relay is getting closer!  Here is the route.  The torch will be passing through Totnes (14:12 start), Paignton (14:40 start), Torquay (15:42 start) and Teignmouth (17:37 start) on Sunday 20th May...just under 2 weeks from Today!

Here is an extract from http://www.london2012.com

The Flame is then delivered to the Host Country, where it is transferred from one Torchbearer to another, spreading the message of peace, unity and friendship. It ends its journey as the last Torchbearer lights the cauldron at the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony in the Olympic Stadium, marking the official start of the Games.

For Home Learning, I would like you to research the Olympic Torches from history and design and make your own.  Due in on Friday 18th May.

Use this site to research them.  Design your own torch and if possible, make it as well using materials from home.  

I hope to have a parade of Olympic Torches in School on Friday 18th May, the last schoolday before the torch travels past us in Devon.

You might want to use these ideas as part of your design: peace, unity, friendship, cooperation, perseverence.  You may want to include some London Landmarks as part of your design.  Have a look below for some ideas:

Presentation about London's attractions

If you cannot make your torch, then draw and label your torch design on either a piece of paper or post it to the Kidblog site.

sycamore link post (weekly)

• Where is the Olympic Flame going? | London 2012

  Have a look at this site for a map of the route of the Olympic torch.  Can you see the town which is nearest to the school?

  Tags: olympic, torch, relay, map, sycamore

  • - By Ben Winter

Posted from Diigo. The rest of Sycamore Links group favorite links are here.

Kidblogs are go!

I've just set up our ultrasafe kidblogs here!  Please see my earlier post about it by following this link.

I've set up a blog for each of you but you don't need to use it unless you want to.

You will need a password which I have set up to be your bugclub password.

Remember that all posts and comments will be reviewed by me.

If I can't understand it, then I won't publish it!

Take care when writing as your class mates will be commenting on your blog posts.

YOU CAN WRITE ABOUT WHATEVER INTERESTS YOU, but if you want an audience, make it interesting...stories, football match reports, 42 mile bike rides, instructions on how to take care of new puppies, how to knit socks...whatever interests you!

I also get to see who has been commenting and I'll be giving out lots of marbles in class for thoughtful comments.

Good luck!

Make Friction irresistible!

Have a look at the science page...click on the link  a few words back or go to the tabs at the top of the page.

There are lots of useful links to help you learn about our current forces science topic.

Your own blog!

Would you like to have an online way to show off your writing and work, photos maybe?

I have started a class blog using Kidblog.  I like this way of blogging because:

• it lets me check your work before it is posted
• it lets me start off with no-one else being able to see your blog while you get started, then other members of class can see your posts and comment.  See here for more details, parents
• we can access it at school and so you can comment from within class.  This would allow you to use it as an independent reading activity.

Have a look here to see what it is like.

Leave a comment on this blog if you want me to set you up with a blog.

You must be willing to have a go at writing about what interests you AND be prepared for other people in class to read your writing and leave comments about it.

Home Learning - get on your skateboard...or rollerskates and feel the force!

Home Learning is to go skateboarding, get on some rollerskates or on something which runs on wheels which you can move.

Move it!

Draw it, showing arrows pointing in the direction of the forces.

Have a look here for some help.

Due in on Wednesday 2nd May - two weeks from now.

Olympic Torch - Can you explain?

Why do we have an Olympic Torch Relay as part of the Olympics?
Where will the route go and why was this route chosen?
Why were the people chosen to carry it?

Here are some answers, but try to find out as many answers as you can.

Also please send in some of your own questions about the Olympic Torch Relay.

Olympics - The Torch

I hope you're having a good Easter break. Here's a link to a site with details of the route of the Olympic torch.
This site shows you the route.

Can you find out which runners will be holding the torch in Teignmouth or in Totnes?

Don't forget that Ollie will be doing a Tae Kwon Do display in Teignmouth.

Leon - using 2create a story

Here is my edited 2create a story version of the middle pages of Leon and the Place Between.  I had to cut out a few sentences.  Hope you enjoy it.

Australia Glossary

We've been learning about Australia for a while now and have developed our own Australia glossary. We've got email buddies at Rochedale State School and we hope you are reading this! Please have a look and add a comment. Leave your name as part of your comment please.

Glossary

View more presentations from Ben Winter.

Unfortunately, the hyperlinks from the contents page don't seem to work in this file.

Spelling

Here is the website which we used in class today.
http://www.spellanywhere.co.uk/spellings.php?view=1&id=385
We looked at some of the trickier wow words.
http://www.spellanywhere.co.uk/spellings.php?view=2&id=73443

Telling the time

How to learn to use an analogue clock to tell the time: top tips

• wear a watch which is analogue and tell the time
• ask your parents to ask you questions about the time during the day
• set your analogue alarm clock and use it to help you get up
• use this link to help learn to tell the time to the nearest 30 minutes
• use this link to help learn to tell the time to the nearest 15 minutes
• use this link to help learn to tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes 
• use this link to help learn to tell the time to the nearest 1 minute 

When you've mastered telling the time, work out differences between times.  Try this site for some practice.

Want a real challenge?  Try this NRICH problem.

Home Learning - Set on Thursday 14th March, 2012

This week we have been continuing to read Leon and the Place Between.

We've been learning how to use expanded noun phrases and adjectives to write descriptively. we've also been learning to write speech.

We will be writing our own version of Leon's journey from the moment he enters the place between.

 This week's home learning is to create a picture of the "Place Between". A copy of one of the pages from the book is shown here.  Please use A3 or A4 to draw, paint, collage, or use different media to create a picture of the world Leon visits.

Please hand in your home learning by 29th March.  Make sure that your artwork is named on the back, but please don't stick into your home learning books.

As you can see from this link, a theatre production of the book is being planned.  I wonder how they will create their imaginary world?

Imaginary Worlds

We're about to journey into Imaginary Worlds.

Think of some of the stories you have read which are not set in the real world.

Here are some fairy tales.


Here is the story of Jack and the beanstalk.

Which characters could you find in these worlds?

What kind of places do they live in?

Who are the heroes?

Who are the villains?

What kind of jobs would you need in these worlds for the fairy tales to be possible?

Emma and Casey's answers

Here are the answers to the quiz from yesterday.

Some of the questions were opinion questions so the answer depends on you for them.

Thanks for the hard work Casey and Emma!

Answers for the questions.


1.      = B
2.      = 13th  ,may, 1787
3.      =  King George III
4.      =   midday
5.      =   1,305
6.      new south wales
7.      =    8 months 1 week
8.      =     port Jackson 
9.      =Sydney
10.     =     48
11.     =     yes
12.     =     1787
13.     =      yes
14.     =      yes
15.     =     C
16.     =     A
17.     =      No
18.     =      267

Emma and Casey's quiz

Have a look at the quiz made by Casey and Emma.

Answers will be posted tomorrow!

1.      How many small wooden boats left Portsmouth on the first fleet?
A.      10
B.      11
C.      12

2.      What day, month and year did the small vessels leave on?
3.      Which king was his 17th year of his reign?
4.      What time did all the ships pass the needles?
5.      How many seamen, marines and convicts set sail?
6.      Where did they set sail to?
7.      How long did the voyage take?
8.      Which port did they weigh there anchor at?
9.      Where did they settle at?
10.     How many people died in the voyage?
11.     Was the journey successful?
12.     When did the first fleet leave?
13.     Did it travel any further than any other voyage?
14.     Did they carry any more people than any other voyage?
15.     Rounded to the nearest meter how short was the smallest ship?
a.      19 meters
b.      20 meters
c.      21 meters

16.     How long did it take to arrive at Botany Bay?
a.      8 months
b.      2 months
c.      5 months

17.     Were the ships designed to transport convicts to Australia?
18.      How many people loose in the 2nd   fleet?
19.     Do you think it was fair to travel convicts to Australia?
20.      How many times do you think they dropped the anchor?
21.      Do you think old people died quicker on the ship than the younger people?
22.       How many convicts do you think were sea sick?

23.       What supplies of food do you think they got and how much did they get?

24.      Do you think the convicts had their own cabins?
25.       What diseases do you think convicts got on the way to Australia?

Hot water

Did you know what it means when we say someone is in hot water?

Look here to find out.

Today we were being systematic when we recorded what happened when we put hot water in a container in our classroom.

There was some fantastic science going on, great predicting, amazing recording and phenomenal cooperation!

...but why do hot things cool down to room temperature?

Look here for an explanation.

Answers as comments please.

Home Learning - Set on Friday 24th February, due in on Wednesday 7th March

We've been learning about area and perimeter.

This site has some really good practice activities for you to try:
http://www.matematicasdivertidas.com/Zonaflash/juegosflash/perimetros.swf

Your home learning is to carefully draw as many shapes as you can which have an area of 16 squared centimetres.  Label their width and their length.

Please:
use squared paper and a sharp pencil, use this link if you need more squared paper
make sure your lines are straight by using a ruler.

Extension 1: Red, orange, yellow and green maths groups should try to do this
Which shape has the biggest perimeter?
Which shape has the smallest perimeter?

Extension 2: Red and orange maths groups should try to do this
Investigate with shapes with an area of 20 squared centimetres.

Which shape has the biggest perimeter?
Which shape has the smallest perimeter?

Area and Perimeter

What is area?

What is perimeter?

What units do we use to measure area?

What units do we use to measure perimeter?

How do we measure the area of a rectangle?

How do we measure the area of a triangle?

Please leave your answer as a comment.

The First Fleet - the first convicts taken to Australia

We've been learning about timelines and have started to create timelines of Australian events.

Here is a link to a site which contains details of the convicts who were transported onboard the first fleet of ships to Australia which carried prisoners or convicts.

These facts have been put into a database so that we can easily search them.  They are not primary records - records which were made at the time, but are based on secondary sources - these were made after reading primary sources.

Primary sources are sometimes very difficult to read - see this one scanned here.  Handwriting was sometimes very different to our handwriting now.

The youngest convict was John Hudson.  How old was he when he was transported?

What age was he when he was charged with his crimes?

What was his occupation when he was arrested?

How many 14 year old convicts were there in the First Fleet?

If you are interested in finding out why convicts were sent all the way to Australia, then look here.

As always, please leave comments with your name.