5T
This is how 5T is shaping up today!!
Marvellous Morecambe
Our local area has been our whole school focus this week and we have been amazed by how much our locality has changed through time.
We kick-started our week with a 'Hey Day' dress up day to consider what Morecambe was like in its prime during the 1960s.
We looked fabulous!
Wednesday brought a trip to the Promenade through Happy Mount Park, where we sketched and considered the importance and features of some of our lcoal landmarks such as the Venus and Child statue, the Clocktower and the Peninsulas of the Lakes.
A picnic lunch was enjoyed and we managed to keep it all for ourselves, safe from the lurking gulls who were desperate for a hula hoop or two!
A HUGE THANK YOU to the gentleman in the park who gave us all a complementary train ride - we LOVED whooping our way around the choo choo track!!
On Friday, we worked collaboratively with other KS2 classes to consider how we should regenerate the area to bring it back into the spotlight and make it a fun and thriving place once more. We have come up with some super ideas... who knows where they will lead?
Local Landmark Promenade Visit
Curriculum Newsletters
We designed super seeds that would glide away from the parent plant. 🌴🌾🌺
Cancer Research North West laboratory day at Lancaster University. We had an awesome and informative day and want to turn our classroom into a lab! Please, please, please, Mrs Taylor!
'Be the Change' student union day at Lancaster University. We enjoyed a fun day all about teamwork and leadership. Who in Year 5 will become a great leader?
Fantastic Fractions! "Can every lesson be this fun?" cried the children.
Welcome to the Ludus Gladiatorius Torrisholmus!
Life Cycles 🐢🦂🐍🦎🐅🐊
We enjoyed finding out about the life cycles of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and insects. We then presented our projects to each other.
Who inspires us?
The Water Cycle Homework Project
Today we helped professor Bubble to make some crazy bubbles. We found out that 3 D shapes worked really well.
Poetry Catwalk 1
Poetry Catwalk 2
Poetry rocks! A selection of pics showing our reading, writing, sharing and general enthusiasm for all things poetry. What a fun week we have had!
Thanks to Daisy and Gino for my limerick - I LOVE IT!!!!
Year 5's Cracking Christmas Crafts!
Golden Globe Template
Year 5 Curriculum Evening
Half Term Challenge - how many solutions can you find?
A Milky Way of Metaphors
We have been exploring figurative language in Literacy this week and we have created metaphor poems linked to our Space topic.
Here are some of our ideas below.
Can you create any metaphors over half term to add to our collection linked to Halloween or your holiday antics?
The Moon is a bead on Earth's necklace, sliding along on its string. Megan
The stars are shiny, silver beads embroidered on a silky, black quilt.
Astrid
Saturn's rings are a running track for alien Olympians.
Harry
Saturn's rings are a baby's swim float keeping him up.
Beau
The stars are shimmering lantern bugs guiding your way through the darkness.
Lilian
Fun Maths
Space (Lack of!) Sleepover
Ukulele progress 1
Ukulele progress 2
Ukulele progress 3
Ukulele progress 4
Who'd have thought the Moon was so yummy?
Trip to Spaceport
Ukulele - the beginning
Strumming with focus
Practise makes perfect!
Upcoming Space Launches
Take a peek at what is going up, up and away...
Date: September 22, 2017
Space Agency: Roscosmos
Description: Glonass-M launch
Date: October 13, 2017
Space Agency: ESA
Mission: Copernicus
Description: Sentinel-5 Precursor – also known as Sentinel-5P – is the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. The satellite carries the state-of-the-art Tropomi instrument to map a multitude of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and aerosols – all of which affect the air we breathe and therefore our health, and our climate. (ESA blog)
Find out more: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus
Date: November 10, 2017
Space Agency: NASA
Mission: Orbital ATK Resupply Mission to Space Station (Orbital ATK CRS-8)
Description: Orbital ATK's eighth contracted commercial resupply services mission, launching aboard an Antares rocket from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, will deliver several tons of cargo including crew supplies and science experiments to the International Space Station.
Date: November 10, 2017 - 4:47 a.m. Eastern
Mission: NOAA Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1)
Description: NOAA's JPSS-1 satellite will launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. NOAA partnered with NASA to implement the JPSS series of U.S. civilian polar-orbiting environmental remote sensing satellites and sensors.
We had fun plotting the planets!
Astronaut Training Day - The Torrisholme Space Agency has begun its crew training!
