Hi everyone,

Thank you to you all for coming to the parent teacher meetings. It has been great that everyone has managed to make it in and have a chance to speak to you about your child's progress. We are right in the middle of our Antarctica project at the moment and are eagerly looking forward to our trip next Friday.

This morning we prepared our triop eggs for hatching so soon will have delightful creatures from the dinosaur age learning with us in class!

I will put some more photos on as soon as they hatch!

I have also spoken to the children about a new display we will be creating in our class. It is called 'WOW' words and we want to find as many interesting words to use in our writing. We want to stretch our vocabulary as much as we can. You can help them by telling them better adjectives or verbs for words they already know or words they find in their reading. They may also like to use a dictionary or ask older brothers and sisters for help.

Antarctica trip

Hi all,
Just a quick blog to let you know that we have managed to book a school trip to the National History Museum where there is a special exhibition about Antarctica. Some of the children were disappointed we weren't going to Antarctica but this was the best we could do!
Letters will be sent out asap and if you could return your money promptly we would be very grateful! If there are any problems with this please come and see one of the Year 5 team.

I have found another website you may like to look at... there are lots of interactive resources. Lots of you are amazing the teachers with your knowledge in class which is brilliant, some children have even taught the teacher's interesting facts. Keep it up!!!

http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_antarctica/teacher_resources/index.php

Also a quick reminder that parents evenings are next week and one of us will be downstairs in the bottom hall every morning until Wednesday for you to make an appointment. Otherwise you can come to class after school. If neither of these is convenient we will be allocating times but it would be great if you chose your own times as we would like to see as many of you as possible.

Antarctica

Welcome back, I hope you all enjoyed a lovely break over the holidays, lots of you seem to have gone on wonderful holidays, the Year 5 teachers are rather jealous!

This half term is going to be a busy one for us as we are beginning our Antarctica project. We will be learning about it in Literacy, Geography, Science and ICT lessons for the next six weeks so it is really important children don't miss school unnecessarily as they will really suffer and have big gaps in their knowledge.

We have already been impressed about the facts that the children already know about Antarctica so if you could encourage them to continue to find out fascinating facts, it makes our lessons even better. Any trips to the local library would also be appreciated.

Here are some good websites, you may like to look at if you have a computer at home, we will also be using them in school.

http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215022/animals.htm

http://www.natice.noaa.gov/

http://www.classroomantarctica.aad.gov.au/

You may also like to check the google or bbc websites...

Can you find out any information about the animals that live in Antarctica? Housepoints will be given out on Thursday's lesson for those that teach the teachers!!! It will be particularly helpful for writing our non-chronological reports on different Antarctic animals.

Happy New Year!