Roaring 20s and Fabulous 30s Day...

We have been time travelling during our topic lessons this half term. First we visited the Victorian Era and met lots of famous inventors.  Then we travelled to WW1 to commemorate the centenary of the First World War.  Next we visited the Roaring 20s and Fabulous 30s.

Unfortunately, war has broken out again and we are now stuck in WWII.  However, look at all the fun we had during the 1920s and 1930s...

New Topic Time!

We are starting a new topic!
We are learning about the two worst times in history: World War 1 and World War 2 in Time Travellers!
Tomorrow we are having a Roaring 20's Day!

Here are some authentic 1920s catwalk videos. Meow!

Music videos...

Enjoy...

New topic time!

We have started a new topic!
Our new topic is Victorians! We have travelled back in time to learn about famous Victorians and their lives. We are reading books that are set in the Victorian era and have been to dickens world! We look forward to blogging about our new topic and all the activities in this extremely long, last term!

Oliver Twist

We have been learning about The Victorian Era. This has lead to Charkes Dickens. Recently, we've been on a road trip to Dickens World in Kent. Yesterday, we watched a trailer of it. Here is the 1933 version.
                                                                   Enjoy!

Allow Us To Introduce Ourselves

We read poems and raps from the book Hip-Hop Speaks to Children.  We thought about the similarities and differences between raps and poems and considered which of them we liked and why.

We listened again to 'Allow Us To Introduce Ourselves' by Charles R. Smith Jr and composed our own poems based on this.  Enjoy...

Micro society

In micro society we have been learning how to run our own businesses. At the start of this tremendous topic we had to apply for jobs. These jobs were banker, president, police and caretaker. Luckily I got the job and I got payed 20 Bonnies ( bonnies are our money). Sadly because Matteo didn't have a job Andre and I got fired.

I used to be in a business called Funny Faces where we made funny props for your face. Unfortunately this business went down hill so we diversified to Dancing Divas. My group didn't discuss it with me, so I left purely because I do lots of dancing on Saturday.

In groups we have made jobs and the civil servants have not got jobs that earn money so every business has to pay tax which is 35 bonnies (our Bonnestan money). For some businesses that isn't very much but for others it's  too much!

Microsociety

In 5M, we've been learning about setting up and running our own businesses. Our society is called "The Republic of Bonnestan". We have our own currency, called Bonnies. We have companies called TDIK's Massaging, Mediation and Gymnastics,  Bonkers Bingo and Signs 4 U.

In our trading sessions, we have learned how to make a ledger book, new vocabulary such as society scarcity, currency, diversify, supply, demand and civil servant and the importance of tax and tax evasion.

In  our society, we believe in love, happiness, responsibility, friendship, caring, honesty and trust.

Micro Society-by Tia

In 5M we have been doing Micro Society, in our class I'm the president and Leah is the Vice President. Being president means that you have to take care of your society and compromise with the Vice President to interview people for civil servant jobs.

Micro-society

Micro-society   is awesome I enjoy it so much. It is like we are in real businesses. When I was applying to get a job, I surprisingly got an interview but unfortunately I didn't get the job. I got a different job and that is being the councillor and that is good for me because I get to work in a business.  Our micro-society is called Bonnestan.

Micro society

Having this topic to learn about is really fun , the best part is when we have our trading sessions.          What we do is we do our jobs that we came up with and  earn money to go around and buy things from other peoples jobs, we all enjoy it and we couldn't have a better topic.

Micro Society

Right now our topic is micro-society.  Everyone is enjoying it and it's a great topic.

We will probably be posting more stuff to do with our topic so keep in touch with our blog!

Micro society

During micro society, we are learning all sorts of vocabulary words such as  scarcity,application and lots others but the main words we were looking at was inflation and recession.inflation
means when the value of something gets higher and higher and recession means when the price of something gets to high that the Value of that thing gets lower and lower.


There are lots of other words but here are some questions about what I have talked about.

What does recession mean?

What does inflation mean?

This is a question we haven't talked about what does trade mean?

What we did in micro society

Yesterday during micro society we went and traded in Awesomainia. We were given a new currency that was counters worth ten awsomes. Some of the businesses had scarcity so inflation was involved. Some of the businesses had high supply and low demand. And some were the other way round.

 What does trade mean ? 
What does supply mean ? 
What does demand mean ?
What does inflation mean?

Stop! Wait! Our new topic is...

What do you think we are going to learn about?  What activities do you think we are going to complete?  What would you like to learn about?  ~What would you like to do?

The Highwayman-Milena

DESCRIPTION

Spooky were the tall,talking trees,dancing in the natural blow of the wind. A round diamond glowed in the garnet-like sky. The grass stopped gossiping as a sugar-like frost cast a spell on them. A rocky road meandered round the iron bars that defended the grass. A pitch black shadow creaked over the purple moor. Mysteriously, a scuttle of movement faded out into the silent night. Slowly, the wind whispered to the trees. Hands reached out and towered over the muddy river of shadowy green. Small, gleaming pebbles jumped about as the tlot tlot tlotting of a Highwayman's black horse came riding up the path.

India the highwayman

Currently,5M have been focusing on a poem called the Highwayman by Alfred Noyes.We have been using descriptive language to write a description from one of the scenes in the poem. This is by India, a child in 5m.
I hope you enjoy it !!!

Stretching towards you, the bony, bare, brown branches are trying to garb you as they jiggle and jive in the grey, gusty wind. Scrape! Scrape! Scrape! The branches scratch against the fence as shavings of black paint spray onto the large plain of grass . Glistening over the purple moor the glowing diamond moon was a bumble bee hive as it stood out in the oily black blotchy sky.With spookiness the trees were a maze of terror.

the highwayman by Oisin

Branches as thin as bony fingers,the trees hide the moon from battling the darkness. A ribbon of fog over laps the road of darkness up to the view point. As still as a brick the tree holds onto the ground stronger than 20 men altogether. The wind whispered to the trees and started to more every thing it could. It was silent as a room with nothing inside.

The Highwayman by kalyani

The Highwayman is a poem for older children and adults . The poem has a lot of showing not
telling ; there is also a lot of descriptive language .

The forest was a maze of horrors and the path was an ocean of dust .

The moon was a button of pearl white glinting in the darkness with witches fingers trying to grab it out of the pitch black sky.

The grass was like rotten candy canes being brushed in the harsh breeze .