Let’s get formal!

http://www.usingenglish.com/resources/letter-writing.html#

We are using this site in literacy tomorrow to help us to set out a formal letter of apology

In our lesson we will be aiming

1. To understand the conventions of letter writing.
2. To consider purpose and audience while writing. 

so we also will be looking at

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/teachers/lesson_plans/letters.shtml

Miss France

How influential was Tim Berners-Lee?

In small groups we thought of what differences there would be in our world, had the World Wide Web  (www) NOT been invented by Tim Berners-Lee. We also looked at the information on this Powerpoint…wwweb.pptwwweb.ppt

Look, he has a Macbook like ours! Here are some of our ideas…

Miss France and 56F would’nt be using this blog right now ( Liam)

We wouldn’t be able to talk online using MSN, webcams or DXD (Lauren)

I like checking my bank acount (Mrs.Ball)

We wouldn’t have You Tube to watch online videos which people have made around the world (Adam)

Google/people wouldn’t be able to use this to look up stuff (Larissa)

There wouldn’t be a Fosse Way School web site so parents could NOT easily look at photos from what we’d been  doing  she  get letters that thay had not got.(Molly)

One person said they would be lost because she uses it for research and online shopping(Mrs Payne)

They would miss booking holidays and using Google Earth (Mrs Holvey and Mrs Cutts)

Finding out things and learning (Mr Cowling)

She would miss using Skype for seeing and talking to grandaughter in Australia (Mrs Walkley)

we won’t be able to go on piczo.com(ashleigh)

Life would be more BORING!!!(Shannon)

Boring! (Mrs Cant)

We wouldn’t know as much about other countries around the world. It would be difficult as you can book tickets and hollidays and also do online shopping. (Miss Hadfield)

There would be no Ebay so people could not get rid of junk items as easily or bid on others (David)

You couldn’t watch programes you’ve missed on bbc i player (Alice)

You couldn’t pay bills online (Lauren)

We can not get in touch with each outher by email and also its good to be able to get in touch with people far away (Becky)

We wouldn’t be able to go on games online and have fun. (Charlotte)

You wouldn`t be able to book into a hotel online or check the priceof what a holiday might cost. (Lauren)

One group looked at mathematical statistics connected to the use of the World Wide Web and created questions and answers from their findings.

Q. How many more people use the World Wide Web in Europe compared to the middle east?

A. ( 321,853,477 – 33,545,600) =302,314,177!(Devon)

Q.How many people realise google records and stores imformation thet may identify them them?

A. 1 quarter of web surfers.

Q. How many more people prefer Yahoo to Ask ?

A. 21.2 % of people 

 Q. How many more people use google to Ask, Aol and Msn ?

A. 30.7 %  

 Q. The difference between Africa and Australia for using the world web ?

A. Is 13.7%

Q.  

FACT FILE ABOUT TIM BERNERS_ LEE (info found from HIS world wide web)

Born: 8th June 1955 in London 

Inspired: by parents who were both mathematicians and his time at university

Age at the moment: 52

Age when made world wide web:35

How many children: 2 children

The Internet server :He wrote the first World Wide Web server, “httpd“, and the first client, “WorldWideWeb” a what-you-see-is-what-you-get hypertext browser/editor which ran in the Next Step environment.

University:   Tim Berners-Lee graduated from the Queen’s College at Oxford University, England, 1976.

Building his first computer: Whilst there he built his first computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television.

We have read some information on a biography about Tim Burnes-Lee.

A question for you…

 

Tomorrow we will be looking at what life might have been like if the world wide web had never been invented by this man… What are your thoughts? Come back tomorrow to find out some of our ideas!

 George Laughead Jr. said the following…

This (picture above) illustrates in 3-D the actual domains and connections of the world wide web. Colours have been added to represent .edu, .gov, .com, etc. domains. I’ve always seen the web as bubbles – some large, some small – and vectors – thick or thin. This is the best graphic device I’ve seen to show that connectivity.

5 minute quickies in Literacy!

five_minute_quickies_stories.ppt

In literacy last week we had fun spending a few minutes practicingfor example listing adjectives, writing character descriptions etc . Perhaps you could challenge yourself to have a go at home or even send one or two of your efforts as a comment.

Influential People Homework

   

Have a look at some of the people our class have been researching. They have researched in many different ways eg. looked at sources on the Internet, asked parents and siblings (brothers and sisters), they have looked at books, and have connected ideas to information they already knew.

Haven’t they worked hard? What do you think?

david-beckhem-finished.ppt

mother-teresa.ppt

Emmiline Pankhurst

emily-pankhurst.ppt

On Thurday we learnt that Emmiline Pankhurst was one of the main people involved in a movement named the suffragettes whose aim was that women got the right to vote.  Find out more by looking at the last page on our powerpoint. Also explain to someone at home how you decided on you 6 most powerful, important words which go with her story.

Miss France

Our World Young Enterprise work

 

Fancy explaining to someone else what we did today as part of our Young enterprise work? Show them the powerpoint below to help yourself to explain. Remember to say about all the fun games we played too!

our-world-for-the-classroom.ppt

It’s Good To Be Me Because…

…I am really good at loads of sports including basketball, football and rugby. I play forfootball team called greenbank I have scored 10 goals this season. (Conor)

… I am really good at football, rugbyand rouders I am confident at playing rounders because I always tell myself” I can do this I can do this.(Sam)

… I am unique and none of my talents are like anyone elses. (Craig)

…I have the ability to run really speedily and also I am really brilliant at football so Iam the captain of ‘Greenbank Under Tens A Team’. I am great at golf. At the end of the season we all got together and had a trophy night, where I won five trophys.(Devon)

…I am great at football in goal. I try to let the fewest amount of goals in . I go footballing every Saturday too. (Jack)

… I am creative and like opportunities to learn new things. (Miss France)

KEEP COMING BACK TO THIS ENTRY TO SEE WHY IT IS GOOD TO BE THE REST OF OUR CLASS

MIXED EMOTIONS IN PSHE

This week we have been looking at strategies to stay positive even when things don’t go well. We have been focusing on WHY ITS GOOD TO BE ME.Today we were asked to think about scenarios when we have had mixed emotions. Here are some of the ideas we came up with….

When Sam broke his brothers arm, he felt guilty because he was just trying to have fun at the same time he felt he had got a little bit of revenge  because his brother was hitting him the day before.

 Jack had mixed emotions when he went on his first aeroplane ride. He felt very nervous because it was his first flight and he didnt now what to expect, however he also felt excited because he thought it would be good to look at all the street lights from a height.

When Devon’s cousin won 7 trophies and he only won 5 at a golfing tournament, he felt a bit jealous because he wished he had one or two more. At the same time he was pleased for his cousin. In the end Devon felt that it had happened the right way round because his cousin had been golfing for longer.

The other groups in our class also had to think of how they would positively sort out the situations when they had mixed emotions.

Devon, Jack, Conor and Sam 

Some children made WWII style Christmas food