Can you build a tower with spaghetti and marshmallows?
Can you build a cup tower without touching the cups?
Take a look at some of the fun challenges we have completed to work on our co-operative learning skills.
Congratulations to the winning team!
This week we have been learning about Boudicca, who was queen of the Iceni people of Eastern England and led a major uprising against occupying Roman forces.
We had a lot of fun learning a song about Boudicca. Here are the song lyrics for you to learn:
Boudicca
Gonna cause a stink,
Won’t be the first to blink
I’m not who you think,
Don’t mess with me I’m…
BOUDICCA!!
My husband Prasutagus died, he was a Celtic king,
I was his Queen, so due to me was half of everything.
Roman law gave half to me, so half was what they got
Till their nasty soldiers came and took the blessed lot.
‘Hey Mister, I say you got the wrong end of the stick!’
His answer turned this sister into one angry chick.
No man, Roman’ll
Push around this woe-man
You won’t get far
With Boudicca.
Bowmen, yeomen
Smash the Roman foe-man!
All say Yah!
Yah!
Boudicca!
I built a massive army headed straight for the city
Beat ‘em all with ease, unlike me it wasn’t pretty
Chopped ’em and hacked, but what made their red blood
curl.
It’s bad enough being beaten, but beaten by a girl!
Whacked them, smacked them,
Boy how we attacked ‘em
Near and far,
Ha ha ha
Flayed ‘em, slayed ‘em
Up and down parade ‘em
Boudicca,
Toughest by far
Colches-ter Lon-don Saint Albans
Everybody talk about –
Dead Romans.
We marched on up the Roman Road that’s known as
Watling St
They trapped us in the forest,
then thrashed us to a defeat.
By now you’ve guessed I’m not the kind of gal who’ll
sit and cry
Be sold as slave to Romans? You know I’d rather die.
They tried to take me prisoner, so I led the Roman boys
on,
Instead of giving in to them I swallowed special pois-on.
Martyr, smarter,
Capture a non-starter
This was our,
Last hurrah.
Slaughtered, dismembered
Our tribe always remembered.
Boudicca
Superstar!
Boudicca
Superstar!
Can you find out some more information about Boudicca to share with the class? You could even create a fact file for our learning challenge display!
Homework suggestions for Year 5 for Autumn term.
The following are suggestions for homework activities that you can complete at home to enhance what we will be learning in school in our topic and science lessons.
Science: Sound
Can you collect sounds and write your own sound collector poem? How do sounds vary? What’s loudest/quietest/strangest sounds?
http://www.poetryline.org.uk/poems/the-sound-collector-530
Can you make your own instrument? Can you vary the pitch and volume of the sound?
Can you make a telephone using cups and sting!? Hint: Google it J
Can you write and perform your own song with changes in pitch?
Can you explain what’s happening in the jet photo on the blog?
Does anyone in your family play a musical instrument? Can they teach you to play it? How do you change the sound? Please bring in a photo.
Do you or your family use any technology that can create, record or edit sounds?
Topic: Who invaded Britain and why?
Can you make a Viking shield?
Can you make a Roman mosaic? Out of recycling perhaps?
Can you make a boat that will float?
Can you role play being an invader and describe what it was like?
Can you practise our topic songs?
Can you research invaders of other countries?
Can you dress yourself up like a Viking, Roman or Anglo-Saxon?
Year 5′s science topic for this half term will be sound.
We’ll be learning about how sound is created and travels as well what materials it will and won’t travel through – we’ll be making some ear defenders to protect our ears from an air horn that Dr Chippindall has acquired!
We’ll also learn how to describe different sounds with scientific terms such as amplitudeand pitch by making our own instruments.
To help Year 5 learn more about sound at home here are some websites to look at. Please post a comment with any others that you find. Thanks.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/9_10/changing_sounds.shtml
http://www.teachersmedia.co.uk/videos/ks2-science-how-to-muffle-sound
http://www.schooljotter.com/showpage.php?id=121558
As a challenge, can anyone find out and explain what is happening here? Hint: It involves the speed of sound
For the first half of the Autumn term, Year 5′s learning challenge will be:
Who invaded Britain and why?
Throughout the term, Year 5 will be learning about different invaders and settlers including the Romans, Vikings and Anglo Saxons. We will be thinking about when and why these different groups invaded Britain and how they changed Britain after they settled here. We will also be generating own questions that we want to find the answers to which we’ll post as a comment on this post soon.
To help Year 5 get started with their research, here are some links to websites with information on invaders and settlers but please post anymore you find in a comment. Thanks.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/romans/
http://www.brims.co.uk/romans/
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Romans.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/vikings/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/vikings/who_were_the_vikings/
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/homework/vikingsax.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/anglo_saxons/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/anglo_saxons/anglo-saxon_life/
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/homework/saxons.htm
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