Spooky Facts

The last day of October is known in the UK as Halloween. It's a scary time and we all like dressing up or watching scary movies but do you know where it came from or why it is celebrated?
Have a hunt and post the reasons.
Do you know how it is celebrated in other countries? What do Americans call it?
Have you any spooky tales you want to share with the rest of the P6 bloggers?
What are you dressing up as this year?

Post your comments remembering the Mr Gray is easily scared!

The Return of the Weekend Riddle

Use your mathematic skills to solve the following problem:

There are a mix of red, green and blue balls in a bag.

The total number of balls is 60.

There are four times as many red balls as green balls and 6 more blue balls than green balls.

How many balls of each colour are there?

PSNI Fireworks Quiz

PSNI would ask that you respect the law and the fireworks safety code this year and they are asking adults to make sure they know the whereabouts of their children and what they are up to. They want everyone to have a safe and enjoyable Halloween this year.

To promote Fireworks Safety they are running this educational quiz on their website http://www.playlearnwin.com/ . There are some great prizes including...
Nintendo DSi

iPod Nano

HMV Gift Voucher

Use your school email address to register for the competition. Good luck

Time Games

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures.htm#Time

Space Facts

Find lots of space facts and trivia about the planets on Zoom School

http://www.zoomschool.com/subjects/astronomy/toc.shtml

Pluto Facts

Uranus Post

Neptune Facts

Saturn Facts

Jupiter Facts

Mars Facts

Earth Facts

Venus Facts

Mercury Facts

Chloe M & Phillip are finding out about Mercury.
Read their comments or post your own to help them.

00 words anagrams

An anagram is a jumbled word.
Use the clue to help work out which one of your spelling words is jumbled

1. paddled on water = noace

2. made from a tree = dewnoo

3. used to clean your teeth = pteohotsta

4. worn smartly = utsi

5. got after a bump = urbsie

6. taken on a big ship = sureic

7. light at night = lmhiogont

8. the way to go = reotu

9. new to the job = utrrcei

10. used to wash your hair = phomaso

Gertie the Gloomy Goose

Our spellings this week have focused on the oo sound. Our text on Monday was Gertie the Gloomy Goose.

One afternoon Hugh was watching a cartoon called Gertie the Gloomy Goose. Gertie flew smoothly through Blackpool on a broom when she toppled over fell and bruised her knee. In rage she took off her shoe and threw it at a musician who was playing a flute. He stood up, shook his fist at Gertie, smoothed down his suit and continued playing. It would take more than a bruise caused by a goose on a broom to stop a true flute player.

You know the drill by now - post your text as a comment, check punctuation and spelling. Remember to print out a copy so we can share them in class tomorrow morning after assembly.

Solar System Quiz

Use the Enchanted Learning Website to answer these solar system questions. 10 House Points to first person with all the correct answers.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/solarsystem/

1. How many planets and dwarf planets are in our Solar System?
2. Which planet or dwarf planet is nearest the Sun?
3. Which planet or dwarf planet is farthest from the Sun?
4. Which planet is the biggest?
5. Which planet has the biggest, most easily-seen rings orbiting it?
6. What is the name of the group of objects that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter?
7. What is at the center of our Solar System?
8. Are the inner planets made of rock or gas?
9. What are the icy objects with huge tails that orbit the Sun?

10. Which planet is called the "red planet"?

Space Week

This week we are finding out about Space.

Here's a game Mr Magowan has linked from his blog

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4620000/newsid_4627600/4627687.stm

Weekend Riddle

A 10 metre ladder is attached to a ship.

Each step is 50 cm apart.

If the water is rising at 75 cm per hour, how long will it take to cover the ladder?

World Cup Maths

As demanded by my class - World Cup penalty shoot out.

www.mrnussbaum.com/soccer.htm

AY Sound Homeworks

This week we are going to do our texts a little differently.

Instead of writing a paragraph, I would like you to write sentences that include direct speech.

Remember to use all the correct punctuation and PLEASE make them interesting!

A house point for each homework posted, and a bonus for the person that uses the most AY sounds in one sentence.

Here is an example:

The doctor said "I may have to operate to remove the raisin today, please say it is okay."

Function Machines

http://www.digital7.org.uk/KS3/functionMachines.html

Tree Quiz

This puzzle is designed to check your knowledge and understanding of different kinds of trees.

To complete the puzzle you have to select the answer you think is correct. If you are correct the puzzle will move on to another question and continue until you come to the end.

If you answer incorrectly you are returned to the question to have another try.

There are seven questions to answer and two web links to useful web sites on woodland.
http://www.zephyrus.co.uk/treepuzzle1.html

Thanks Mr Magowan for this link

Hey Riddle Riddle

An elephant has 3 of them

A fox has 1 of them

A monkey has 2 of them

What are they?

Sunday Riddle

Fred owns a pet store.

He puts one canary per cage, but has one bird too many.

If he puts two canaries in each cage, he has one cage too many.

How many cages and canaries does he have?