Christmas Comedy

Think of a caption or comment.
What was he thinking?

Journal Time

Thinking back over the year

What are your

Top 10

Achievements - Things you are proud of that you have done well at...

Events - Things you've enjoyed the most

Challenges - Things that where hard for you

Friends - People you have enjoyed playing with and working with.

Famous Places

Riddles

I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. A PENCIL What gets wet when drying? A TOWEL
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? THE LETTER M
What is round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, and still the oceans couldn't fill it up? A SIEVE

IDIOM
Cast Iron Stomach: 
Someone who has no problems, complications or ill effects with eating anything or drinking anything.

Cartoons
What's the joke?

Where in the world?

Hemisphere?  Northern

Continent?  North America

Country?  USA

Place?  NEW YORK

What is it?  The Empire State Building

A Question I have is...

Empire State Building Facts

Location of Empire State Building– Midtown Manhattan, 350 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

Height –1,454 feet ( exact measurement is 1453 feet and 8 inches. or 443 meters.

Designed by– Shreve, Lamb & Harmon

Contractors of Empire state building –Starrett Bros. & Eken

Excavation started on – January 22, 1930 and construction began on 17th march , 1930.

Total time needed to construct this building was approximately 410 days.

Total cost — 41 million US dollar at that time.

Total no of floor –102 floors.

Total steps in stair – 1860 steps from ground to top.

Total area of Empire State Building –80,000 (approx) square feet east-west 425 feet and north-south 188 feet

Total 73 elevators run at a speed of 600-1500 feet/minutes

This building has 55 feet under ground.

Total weight of this building is approx. — 365,000 tons.

Total No of windows -6600.

Antenna height -205 feet and total volume about– 37-38 million cubic feet

Total 57,000 tons of steel was used to construct this Empire State Building.

17 million feets of telephone wire was used to connect entire building telephone system.

Morning Idiom

Idiom

Against The Clock: 
Rushed and short on time.

Joke

Q. Why do mummies like Christmas so much?
A. Because of all the wrapping!

Riddles

1. I run, yet I have no legs. What am I?
2. Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red.
3. Remove the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside, throw away the inside.

1. A nose
2. A match
3. Corn

Where in the world?

Hemisphere? Northern

Continent? Europe

Country? France

Place? Paris

Question?

Extra information...

Caption Competition

Think of a comment

A title

What's happening

Put words in their mouths

Idiom

Actions Speak Louder Than Words:
 It's better to actually do something than just talk about it.

Where in the world?

Hemisphere? Southern

Continent? Antarctica

Country? New Zealand

Place? Scott Base

and what's this showing?

and who are these people?

Riddles and Idioms

What goes round the house and in the house but never touches the house? The SUN
What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone else? Cold Your Word

Idioms

A Taste Of Your Own Medicine: 

When you are mistreated the same way you mistreat others.

Where in the world is this?

Hemisphere? Northern
Continent? North America
Country? USA
Place? The Grand Canyon - Colerado River

What is this place? 
Do you know any more information about this place?

Write two questions you'd like to know the answer to

From Space

Riddles and Idioms

Riddles

1. What goes up and down stairs without moving?
2. Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.
3. What can you catch but not throw?

1. The Carpet
2. A Fire
3. A Cold

Idioms

A Piece of Cake: 
A task that can be accomplished very easily.

Where in the world is this?

Hemisphere? Southern
Continent? South America
Country? Brazil
Place?  Rio de Janeiro

What is this place? the statue is called the Cristo Redentor
Do you know any more information about this place?

Write two questions you'd like to know the answer to

Tuesday News

Joke of the Day

What do you do with a green monster?
Put it in the sun until it ripens!

What do you get if you cross a long-fanged, purple-spotted monster with a cat?
A town that is free of dogs.

Idioms

A Drop in the Bucket: 
A very small part of something big or whole.
Where in the world is this?

Hemisphere?  North
Continent?  Asia
Country? China
Place? China
What is this place? Great Wall of China
Do you know any more information about this place?

Where in the World?

Joke of the Day

Why did the boy scream when he opened the fridge?
Because he saw the salad dressing.

What's the double meaning that makes this funny?


Idioms
A saying that has a meaning that means more than just the words.
A Blessing In Disguise: 
Something good that isn't recognised at first. 


Where in the world is this?

Hemisphere?  North
Continent?  Africa
Country? Egypt
Place? Giza
What is this place?
Do you know any more information about this place?

What Science?

This one is easy!

What is the name of this branch of science?

What tools would the scientist have used to get these pictures?

What words belong to this branch of science?

Highlight below to see...


Biology - the living world
life
plants
trees
flowers
leaves
animals
insects
bugs
living things
sea creatures
viruses
bacteria
blood
bones
brains
food
cells
microsopic
leaves
mould
mushrooms

Time to tidy up some loose ends and recap our thinking-

Have you completed your observation diagram from yesterday's dissolving experiment?

We need to write a short observation statement about the flour and salt in water.  What happened...

We need to write a conclusion about the dissolving experiment - I think that...

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CSI - Mission - Crack the case

What Science?

Watch this short video and think about what sort of science this is.

What is the name we use for this sort of science?

What is the BIG IDEA that this scientist has just had?

What might you want to test or try to find out more about this BIG IDEA?

What words belong to this branch of science?
Add your thinking to your Learning Journal.
Highlight below to see...
Physics - Physical World - how things interact, move and change.  The science of natural forces. Natural phenomena.
electricity
light
gravity
temperature
forces
energy
astronomy
planets
atoms
magnets

In the Shadows!

It didn't go dark or anything
but there was something 
about the brightness of the light 
that made you feel like you where in a shadow

Everyone was gathering in the junior playground
taking turns 
to look at the Sun 
through some special viewers we had been loaned

No one was really prepared for the sight

When I first looked through the viewer 
I felt surprised and delighted at the same time
The image was so clear 
and the Moon seemed 3D.

As I looked around 
at the other people 
taking their first look at the eclipse 
I saw the same delight and surprised expressions on their face's

What surprised me most 
was the crescent shaped forms
between the shadows 
under the trees

Take a look for yourself

Recent Experiments

Magic Candle
See this experiment in slow motion.
Can you see what's happening now?
What's your HYPOTHESIS?

Look out for the solor eclipse at morning tea today!

Thinking Science

Scientist...?

Key Skills of a Scientist

investigate, experiment, explore

curious, make observations, look, listen, touch, taste, smell measure, find connections 

predict

have theories

make discoveries

test ideas

What's the science?

What's happening in the picture?

Science Fortnight

Over the next two weeks we will be finding out about some scientific ideas and what it means to be a scientist.

First think questions - copy the question into your journal and then write down what you think.

Highlight to see the questions below

What is science?

What do scientists do?

What skills do you need to be a scientist?

How do you do experiments?

Do you know any science words?

Technology Last Look

Choose one of these PMI reviews

PMI - Technology - Picture starters

The Good
The Bad
and
 The Ugly

Technology

+Plus	Interesting	-Minus
Medicine helps people it can save lives and help people live longer TV entertains you in your home	Some people like to have the latest gadgets It's interesting that technology brings the world closer like when there is a disaster and you find out about it but cant do anything to help	Some things on TV are scary Technology has caused problems in the world like...

PMI - Shoes - Picture starters

Focus on Shoes

+Plus	Interesting	-Minus
They stop my feet from hurting Shoes help me to...	You can fasten them with zips, with laces and with velcro	My dad's shoes are....

News Review

Thinking About My Learning

Sentence Starters

Three things that I'm learning from doing our class contract are...
1.
2.
3.

PMI Thinking

Use the PMI framework to consider this idea.

One morning you get up for school to discover that all the adults have gone!

What would this mean for you?

What would you have to do for yourself?

What could you do?

What couldn't you do?

Group discussion - 5 minutes own thinking - then share ideas with a buddy.

+Plus	Interesting	-Minus

Writing Topic Ideas for the Week

Ilam Fair

School Athletics Day

Fireworks

Write a short paragraph that recreates a moment in time.  

Remember to describe thoughts, feelings, sights, sounds, smells.

Create a picture in the mind of the reader.

Understanding the Message

Look at these sports shoe adverts

Whats's the message?

The words and the pictures are used to communicate a idea

What idea are these adverts trying to communicate?

 
 

 



Try these sentence starters to help you think of a slogan

As __________ as a________________

Faster than a....

More bounce than a.......

Jump higher than...


What are some of the important features of your shoe?

Grip?  Comfort?  Weight?