The Great Barrier Reef Fact Hunt

In class we have been finding out about the Great Barrier Reef.
Here are a couple of videos about the reef
The Whitsunday Islands
Tropical North Queensland

Now visit the National Geographic site and complete this fact hunt. It's quite tricky but I'm sure you bloggers can cope!
1. Find a creature that is poisonous to other animals.
2. Find an animal that feeds on coral.
3. List two fish in that live in this habitat.
4. Find a mollusk that does not have a shell.
5. Name a creature in this habitat that changes color.6. Name a marine mammal in this habitat.
7. Find a creature that has tentacles.
8. Name a fish that is overfished by humans.
9. Find a fish that relies on another creature for protection and shelter.
10. Which animal attacks its prey with a sharp, spear-like tooth?
1HP if you have a go
2HP if you get them all correct

Builder Ted - Decimal Ordering Game

Put the decimals in order by double clicking on the bricks

Play level 1

Fair Trade Chocolate Adverts NOW AVAILABLE

Today we had a go at making radio adverts
Visit http://kingsparkps.podbean.com/ to listen to our podcasts that promote our Fair Trade chocolate bars.

We used Audacity - which you can download here - to make our features and the Audio Network feature in LearningNI.

Have a listen, why not have a go yourself.

You can also subscribe to our school podcasts via itunes - it's a bit tricky but have a hunt

How Would You Feel?

New Voicethread online now

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Telly Ads

We are working towards making a tv advert for our Fair trade chocolate bars.

After PE today we had a look at a couple of famous adverts on http://www.tellyads.com/

Visit the site and have a look at some of the famous ads.

What do the best adverts have that make them the best ones?

What is your favourite advert of all time?

What advert really gets on your nerves?

Leave your thoughts via the comment section

Scaffold Text - se ce sound

In class we were refreshing our memories about how to use speech marks properly. If your text has speech in it, REMEMBER TO USE THEM, and to take a new line for every time a new person talks.

Sally’s distress

My selfless niece Sally announced last Saturday that she would do all the housework and give her stressed mum a rest. She went to Tesco and bought all the groceries including a choice of cereal and a recipe book. Her mum was impressed. The house was spotless. The windows glistened. Sally whistled and pranced about as she dusted the cobwebs from the ceiling. She thought her day was a success. Descending the steps she was distressed as she tripped over her careless bother’s science kit. What a disaster!!

Fair Trade

Mr Magowan's class have this activity on their blog, it's really good so I thought you would like to have a go.
Why not join in their discussion on Mr Magowan's blog

Have a look at the Fairtrade website and see if you can find out answers to the following:

What products can be Fairtrade products?
Investigate which shops sell Fairtrade items and make a list of them.
Who stocks the most Fairtrade fruit?
Post your answers as a comment

Decimal Addition Game

Try this decimal addition game, you can post your time as a comment if you want to see if anyone can beat you!

This Week's Scaffold Text

As always, leave your scaffold text as a comment.
Remember lots of people will be reading this so check your spelling, make sure your sentences make sense and include your name - no name means your comment won't be released.
Comments won't appear straight away as they have to be moderated to check for bad words!

What is a homonym? A word that is spelled or pronounced in the same way as one or more other words but has a different meaning, e.g. him and hymn.

What is an antonym? Antonyms are words that are opposite in meaning, e.g. liquid and solid.

What is a synonym? Synonyms are words that mean the same, e.g. antonym and opposite.

What is a syllable? They are the division of beats in word.

How many syllables are there in the words quick, biscuit, history, gymnastics and sympathy?

Many English words have been borrowed from the Greek language Greek words often use the letter ‘y’ instead of ‘i’, for example in words like gym and hymn and type.

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