Explain it...

Imagine that you meet a friendly alien at your local park.  Some how this small alien has been left on Earth by mistake after his family dropped by for a visit to our planet.  
You decide to smuggle this creature into your bedroom and look after him.

The alien is very intelligent and quickly learns your language, but does not understand many of the things that we do on Earth.

In a group talk about how you would explain some of the things we do on Earth.

Write a short explanation with your team and present what you have done back to the class.

Use the explanation rubric to help you make a really good explanation.


Topics - What is...?

Food, Music, Sleep, A Bicycle, A Bank, Farming, A Skateboard, Television, A Computer and the Internet, Christmas, A Birthday, 

Let's Cook

On your marks, get set, go!

How quickly can you make biscuits?

Timeline

How long ago was the Middle Ages?

The two timelines below give us an idea about how long ago some historical events were.

Are they to scale?

What key events from history can you think of?  Brianstorm

Do you know when these events occurred?

Can you find out a year when they occurred?

Investigate some historical events - recent and ancient

Find out when they happened

Build a human timeline - go for a time walk

Place cones every 100 years

Illuminated Letters

In the Middle Ages books were all made by hand.
Books were hand written - not printed.
Religious books were the most common and many of these were copied out by monks.

Many people could not read and books were very valuable items.

Illuminated letters were used as a special decoration in books to add importance and interest.

Read and discover information about the meaning and purpose of illuminated letters.
Reading Link
Book History Timeline
Illuminated Letters

Research and find examples of illuminated letters on the internet.
Google images search "illuminated letter .... a, b, "

Use one of your initials for your own illuminated letter design to be added to your artefact box.

Create your own illuminate letter

1. divide a new journal page into 4 and sketch out some ideas for your letter design
2. include a border with symbols, icons or patters and designs
3. add designs inside or around your letter too
4. colour with strong contrasting colours or use a selection of tones
5. choose between a crayon and dye effect or pen, pencil and felt pens
6. finish off by using a puffy paint / glue to make the outline of your letter stand out

Have a look at these designs:

The Halfmen of O

Synopsis of the Story

(a brief summary of the plot of a novel, motion picture, play)

COPS – CAPITALS – Overall Sense – Punctuation – Spelling

The Halfmen of O

susan ferris has always felt differint from other childen and the strange mark on her writs sems to have somefing to do wif it hair aventure begins whne she meats jimmy jaspers he sends her through a mine shaft portal to another world susan is thrust into a world split by the powar off the halves a world of good and eval wif the halp of the creatures from another dimenshun she must reset the balanece or be distroyid trying

COPS – Editing - COPS – CAPITALS – Overall Sense – Punctuation – Spelling

1.       read and check it makes sense

2.       decide where the full stops go

3.       add capitals for names, places and the start of sentences

4.       circle possible spelling errors – fix the ones you can – check or get help for the ones you can’t

Fears

What's scary?
What worries you?
What frightens you?
What things are you afraid of?
What would you never ever do?

Use the structure below to help your thinking and list ideas in your journal.

Basic Organising Ideas

Growing Up Responsibility Getting Old!	Places	Unexpected things	Dangerous Things People Places Situations Choices
Activities Extreme Sports	Illness or Injury	Great Unknown Things	?

How could these ideas be used for a short piece of writing?

Could you create a What am I piece of writing about one of these ideas?

And if you think you're not scared of anything take a look at this video. 
Link
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Week Ten Dance

We are learning about the elements of dance and how to use them to create our own unique dance.

Do you remember the elements?
What do these letters stand for?

BATSER

Body Awareness - being aware of your own body, what it's doing, how you move it

Timing - making a connection between the music and keeping in time with others as well as the beat

Space - using the space - all the corners and different levels - tracing out a space through your movement

Energy - unitising different levels of energy in response to the music

Relationships - working with others - moving together, mirroring, shadowing, showing a connection or disconnection

Inspiration Watch these dance groups and notice which elements of dance they use well.  Can you identify some movements that might be useful to you for your dance?

Our dance story

Part 1. energy and power - showing the shape of the waves and making the sound of them crashing on a beach

Part 2. diving under the waves - forming an underwater scene - meeting Poseidon

Part 3. detecting danger - strong use of expressions on face and freeze frame

Part 4. flight - escape - free swimming - using all the space and working with a buddy

Part 5. drifting and floating like jelly fish or plankton slowly spiralling in an anticlockwise direction

Part 6. giant jellyfish all together as one
This isn't a dance video, but it is inspirational and creative.
http://imaginate.redbull.com/videos/riding_film

Assembly Preparation

This week we are the presenters for the whole school assembly.

What items do we need to include?

Who will present?

Songs?  - Muppets?  

Performances?

House Points

Jokes?

Teacher Notices?

Message from the Principal

Lost Property Film - who will make this?

What about a round up of something from  the term - events and class activities?

Cooperation

Water Challenge

Take a look at the pictures of our cooperation activity.

Go to the web album and see how well we communicated and worked together.

The link to the web album is under the class web links on the left of the page.