Tuesday, 10 November 2009

School in Japan




What is it like for someone your age going to school in Japan? Is it the same as going to school here or is it different? Find out more about schools in Japan and make a list of things that are the same as here and a list of things that are different.


1HP for any interesting facts published. Click on the link below to start your research

Thursday, 5 November 2009

Wednesday, 4 November 2009

More word problems!


We have been doing lots of word problems in class this week to revise our additon, subtraction, multiplication and division. Can you make up a word problem of your own for the rest of the class to solve? One table point for every problem posted!

Tuesday, 3 November 2009

Japan - What I want to know


Post any questions you want answered about Japan.
What would you like to find out?

Maybe you want to know about the language, the people, the history, the cities, the food, the clothes......


Write the question and maybe someone will answer it for you

Royston the Noisy Snake!


This week our spelling use the oy sound. Post your scaffold text as a response to this one. Remember that I'm also looking for lots of adverbs this week!


Royston was, by all accounts, a very noisy snake. His friends would say, ‘The idea of being a snake is so you can hoist yourself up into a tree and silently coil yourself round a branch and then drop down on your prey without them even knowing you are there.’ Alas poor Royston couldn’t stay quiet for long enough to do this.

One day his friends took him aside and explained he had choices to make. Either he was going to be the annoying, poisonous, noiseless, destroyer that he was meant to be or they would employ sterner measures to get him to conform.

Needless to say sterner measures could not be avoided. Royston’s friends sent him on a voyage of discovery. His most loyal friend, Lloyd went with him and introduced him to the android on the hill, who, happened to have an ointment for noisiness. A couple of applications later Royston was less noisy and actually started to enjoy slithering around, silently creeping and coiling up on his prey as a snake should do.

Word Problems......


Here are a few word problems for you to practise with. Make sure you read them carefully before you decide if you have to add, subtract, multiply or divide.

2 points for everyone who tries them all.
3 points for everyone who gets them all right!



1. Tennis balls come in packs of four. Alisha bought 6 packs.How many tennis balls have we got?


2. Joanna's cake recipe says she needs to use three eggs. She has to make a cake three times bigger than the one in the recipe. How many eggs will she need to buy?


3. It takes Shania-Lee 30 seconds to swim 1 length of the pool. How long will it take her to swim 6 lengths?


4. It costs 80p for a child to swim. How much does it cost for our class of 19 to swim?


5. Joshua has 230 sweets. He wants to share them out equally between himself and his 9 friends. How many sweets will they get each?


6. Samuel sells his old PS2 games for £10 each. He has 23 games. How much money will he make?


7. Laura saves 13p and is given another 42p. How much has she got altogether?


8. Cathy had 76p. She bought an ice cream for 35p. How much has she got left?