Our Brill Yr6 Blog!

Today in ICT I would like you to search the Internet to find 5 facts about Andy Warhol.
After you are facted up use the website below and the capture tool to create your own Pop Art. Have fun!

Marilyn Print

Only a few weeks left so time for some serious Science Revision!
Click on the following links to access some revision websites

Engineering Interact (Forces)

BBC Science Clips

The Big Bus (Look in Explorers World Science)

Happy Revising!

Today whilst you are in the IT suite I would like you to view some websites that could help you with your revision for SATs.

BBCRevisewise

PrimaryGames

Skillswise

PrimaryGames.com

Topmarks

The Big Bus

Multiflyer

Spellits

This week in Literacy!

Instructional Text

Wow! What a week we’ve had in Literacy.
We’ve been studying Instructional Text and have viewed a great website called Wikihow.
This sight allows you both to make a request and respond to a request about how to make/do something.
We decided to respond to a real request so that we were writing for a real purpose. We were intrigued with the request ‘How to make a Mighty Mega Sandwich’ and decided to take the challenge!
As a class we decided a ‘Mighty Mega Sandwich’ was a huge, whopper of a sandwich and decided to call it ‘The Whopperdopperdooby Sandwich! Our teacher demonstrated her interpretation of a whopperdopperdooby and made it, then for the next 3 days it was our turn!

How to Make a Whopperdopperdooby Sandwich

Have you a hearty appetite? Bored with the same old sandwiches? Need something more fulfilling? If so then you need to take this GARGANTUAN CHALLENGE!
Make and eat a WHOPPERDOPPERDOOBY SANDWICH if you dare!

A Whopperdopperdooby Sandwich is a colossal sized sandwich which is easy and fun to make and can be made with a wide variety of fillings to suit all tastes and tantalize tonnes of taste buds!
Made with bread, baps or bagels, this sensational sandwich can be an incredibly delicious and nutritious snack or a naughty but nice treat. Whatever your preference, one thing the Whopperdopperdooby Sandwich must be… is GIGANTASTIC!!!

|Things You will Need:

At least 8 slices of bread or 4 bagels (see tips)
Butter/margarine (optional)
Desired additional spread
Fillings of your choice
Skewers

1. Decide whether to use bread or bagels.
2. Select and collect ingredients and equipment needed and place into centre of the table.

3. Butter both sides of the slices of bread (optional).

4. Place the base of the sandwich onto your plate.
5. Spread a generous layer of the desired spread onto the bread (optional)
6. Carefully slice ingredients such as tomatoes, cucumber, mushrooms and sausage and grate carrot and cheese.

7. Assemble the fillings on top of the base layer of bread, ensuring that the sandwich remains well balanced and level.

8. Carefully place the next slice of bread on top and gently press down taking care not to flatten the fillings.

9. Select different ingredients for additional layers of the sandwich.

10. Continue to build up different layers of the sandwich until you reach the desired size/height.
11. Place one hand on the sandwich and gently hold it steady as you
push the skewer firmly through the middle of the sandwich.
12. Place desired food items on skewers and decorate with a labelled flag.

13. Garnish the plate with al fresco salad or other suitable ingredients/objects.
14. Slice using a bread knife from top to bottom so that each portion contains some of each layer.
15. Place additional skewers through the sliced sections to hold together like a kebab.

16. Serve and enjoy!

Our finished Whopperdopperdooby Sandwiches - Whopper-dopper-doobylicious!

We look forward to hearing your comments about our ‘Whopperdopperdooby Sandwiches!’

Mental Mania!

This afternoon I would like you to complete some mental arithmetic tests online, use your headphones and answer the questions with your partner. You need to enter the answers using the keyboard.

If you have finished, you can explore some more of the Carroll diagram work we have been doing during our Numeracy lessons. Good Luck! Remember practice makes perfect - practice makes permanent and tests =treats!

Hopefully after reading the set of instructions below you will be an expert in being able to leave a comment on any blog.

You will need:
Computer
Internet access
Blog address

 What to do:

1. Switch the computer on and wait until it is loaded onto the homepage.
2. Double click the internet browser icon which is located on the desktop (use either Internet Explorer or Fire Fox).
3. Type in the blog address into the address bar located at the top of the browser window. Single click on the green ‘go’ or press ‘enter’ on the keyboard.
4. Read through old and new posts until one of interest is found.
5. Locate the ‘comment’ hyperlink with the cursor and double click.
6. Read existing comments to gather some ideas.
7. Scroll down and leave the following information; email address, your name (WARNING: only use your first name and leave no personal information).
8. Leave a positive comment reflecting on the post you have read.
9. Ensure that you have checked and corrected any spelling mistakes and errors.
10. Scroll down and press ’submit comment’.

Hello everybody!

This week in literacy we have been studying Instructional Text.

We decided to make it more relevant by writing for a real purpose. As our Yr3’s are learning how to become brilliant bloggers we thought it would be a great idea to write instructions for them. So far we have produced a flow chart with brief notes. We used smart-notebook but could have used smartideas or Gliffy to create our flow chart. We are going to attempt to upload this flowchart now, but if it isn’t below this writing as you are reading it we have been unsuccessful!

Over the next two weeks we are looking at how to write effective instructions. In the first week we will be writing instructions about how to add useful comments to blogs. The year 3’s in our school will be our audience and we are also going to be writing for some children in classes in Sydney, Australia.

It’s Miss Pick’s Yr6 class here jumping on the blog-wagon! We’re really excited to be blogging and can’t wait to hear from you - whoever you are! We’re absolutely loving being in Yr6 (despite having SATs!) and becoming a blogger has only made it better!

Once we become brilliant bloggers we hope to share with you lots of the interesting activities we get up to and hope to receive comments from all over the world.

So here’s our very first blog entry - I hope we’ve done it right!

Happy blogging from all in Miss Pick’s class!