Animals: Up close & Personal!

HOMEWORK TASK
Loot at these amazing photographs!

Which one do you like the best and why?


Can you find the name of any other famous wildlife photographers? Why do you like their photos? 

Add your views as a comment.

 

DC tests - Good Luck!

Just a quick message to all of Y6 who are taking the DC entrance tests today. Relax and just do your very best! We'll be thinking about you!
GOOD LUCK!

Mr W ( & Miss Bates and Mrs H)

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Homework

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: (optional if doing DC tests)

Yera 5&6 went to DUCTAC today to see S4K's version of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

What did you think of the show today?

• What did you enjoy about it?
• Who were your favourite characters?
• Can you find out any information about the person who wrote A Midsummer Night’s Dream? For example: When was he alive? What other plays did he write?

Ethan shares...

I found this link on YouTube and thought it could go on the blog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI

Enjoy

Ethan P

Sophie shares...

THIS IS MIND BLOWING
Someone needs to figure out how this works! Amazing.
If you can figure out how she does it please let me know.
Once I did not even follow the directions, I just looked at the number and she still got it!
This will drive you crazy!


http://www.regiftable.com/regiftingrobinpopup.html

Marie the Menace!

Marie sent me these photo's to share with you all!!!!...

Oh you!!!!!!! 

                                                                             

                            

I will get my revenge!!!!!!!!!!!!

6JW's King of the week Term 2 week 1, is....MATTY

This week's King of the week in 6JW is.....Matty! CONGRATULATIONS!

A super person and great member of the class!

We all said lots of lovely thing about Matty in class. We think that Matty:

• Is a fantastic friend
• Is really funny
• Is really good at rugby
• Is a good reader and good member of reading group
• Is an Excellent swimmer
• Is a good guitarist
• Is helpful
• Makes people cheerful
• Has a great attitude
• Is very enthusiastic
• Whenever you do something funny you can make people’s day
• Has a stupendous personality
• The class would be really dull without you in it
• tells hilarious jokes
• is an awesome friend
• Is optimistic
• Is nice to have around
• May seem serious but are always laughing inside
• Is hardworking
• Always tried his best in all you do
• Is dependable and reliable
• Is honest
• Is thoughtful & caring

Add more positive comments about Matty to this post!

Hambrook Blog (Mr Jones!!!)

My good friend and former Kings' teacher (who taught lots of you!!!) Mr Jones has got a class blog up and running. Check it out by visiting his blog and finding what his year6 class are getting up to. They have done some Avatar work too! Great minds think a like!

http://elmhambrook.primaryblogger.co.uk/ 

Mr Watson

Variation and Classification links:

In Science we are looking at AVriation and classification. Jamsine and Francois have found some websited that may be useful for us.

 

Variation/classification games:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/living_things/variation/play.shtml

 

http://www.softschools.com/science/living_things/animals/animals.jsp 

 

Definitions:

Variation: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/variation 

 

Classification:http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/classification

 

 

If you find any other good sites let us know!

 

Eclipse - more news

Read more about the eclipse on:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12100295 
(there is a good video clip on this site too)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2011/jan/04/partial-solar-eclipse-astronomers-video

and again on
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7212449n

Joe says...

Dear Mr Watson and Year 6

 

Happy New Year. Sorry I am not at school. I am still in England!

 

The highlights of my Christmas have been...

 

Dubai holiday:

The day the children came.

Going to Atlantis.

Going to Jacks house on Christmas eve.

Christmas day, of course!

 

England holiday:

Opening all my england presents

Sleeping at Grans

Seeing all my friends

Staying up until midnight on New Years Eve

Seeing Nana

Watching the movie, Tron

 

As you can see, I have been very busy! Now I am doing my homework.

 

See you next week.

 

Joe

Solar eclipse!

Partial Solar eclipse on January 4, 2011
A partial solar eclipse will occur on January 4, 2011. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring Earth's view of the Sun. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the moon's shadow misses the earth.
The eclipse will be visible over most of Europe, the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa and Western Asia, such event will not occur  again (solar eclipse) from UAE till 2019, the event will start 12:11 PM till 2:30 PM Dubai local time.


Read about today's solar eclipse at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_January_4,_2011

Shakepeare 4 Kids - A Midsummer Night's dream!

Next week we are heading back to DUCTAC to see an adaption of William Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer's Night Dream '. It is being performed by the brilliant S4K company - many of us saw their version of Macbeth last year.

Check out the links below for more information:

http://www.shakespeare4kidz.com/trailers.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night's_Dream

http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/play-summary/midsummer-nights-dream.htm

http://www.kidzworld.com/article/4279-kidz-notes-a-midsummers-nights-dream

Harry H the scientist - the big experiment

Dear Mr Watson & year 6

I decided to try out one of my Christmas presents today, it's called Enviro Battery. The aim of the experiment was to make a fork act like a battery. This is what happened.

What I needed
1. 2 zinc plates
2. An LCD clock
3. Sticky tape
4.Connection wire
5. Two forks
6. One lemon cut into two

What I did
1. Firstly I connected one end of the red wire to one of the forks using the sticky tape to secure the connection.
2. Then, I connected the black wire to the to one of the zinc plates.
3. Using another fork and zinc plate I connected them with some wire to make a connection pair.
4. To activate the clock I inserted all the metals into the lemon.

What happened.
First of all it didn't work because the forks I used had plastic handles and as I connected the wires to the plastic nothing happened. When I tried again I used the metal prongs and then the clock switched on! This showed me that electricity cannot travel through plastic, but it does travel through metal. I had a lot of fun and learnt something new.

Happy New Year.
Harry

A Message from an old friend

Hello Year 6!

I hope all of you are enjoying your time at King's! I hope all of you are well. And HAPPY NEW YEAR! Enjoy the rest of the year! Good luck! From Angela that used to be in year 6lba. (P.S I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas)!

 

Angela Scott

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Mrs Hislop, Miss Bates and Mr Watson would like to wish all of Year 6 & their families a

 VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Here's a great 2011 for us all!!!!

 

Comment on the following questions:

Where were you at the start of 2011?

Did you stay up to midnight?

Have you got any new year's resolutions?

What are they? Why?

Will you keep  them?

End of term & GOODBYE MRS WATSON!

What a busy end of term. The FS 'fandangle', Y123 production of 'The Elves and Shoemaker' and whole school Winter Outdoor concert all crammed into the last week of term.

The end of the year, also marked the end of an era.  Mrs. Watson who has been at the school since the very beginning 6 and half years ago,  left Kings'. As we all know Mrs Watson is a massive character and inspiration in school and and will be missed greatly by us all.  She will have a few months of relaxation before ther arrival of twins in March.
GOOD LUCK to Mrs Watson as she leaves and beging the next chapter of her Adventure.


Finally...
Here's wishing all of Year 6 a very happy holidays - Merry Christmas and HAppy new year to tou all!

See you on 3rd January 2011!

6LBa Arabic Day!

6JW's King of the week Term 1, week 13 is ETHAN

This week's King of the week for 6JW is ETHAN.

Ethan is a great member of the class and it was easy to think of lots of lovely things to say about him.

We think Ethan is:

• A very good friend
• An amazing swimmer
• Mega funny
• Have a wacky personality
• Always got a smile on your face
• Are stupendous head boy
• Neat handwriting
• Very positive
• Happy chappy
• Deserved the head boy badge
• Pleasure to have in the class
• You are cheerful
• Nice to be around
• Always enthusiastic
• Awesome artist
• Awesome friend
• Extremely helpful
• Amazing and wacky sense of humour
• We Always have fun when you are around
• Mature
• Class would not be the same without you
• Good listener
• Responsible
• Caring

CONGRATULATION ETHAN - a great  person and fantatsic member of 6JW!

Feel free to add more positive comments to this post.

REVIEW OF TERM 1

We have had a brilliant first term in year6. It has been very busy and full of hardwork, positive attitudes and exciting work. Tell us what your highlights have been.
What are you proud of?
What have you improved at?
What has been your favourite things we have done?

Netball report by Georgie

On the 9th of December y6 netball team had a tournament at DESS.
We were in group A where there were 8 teams.
Here are our results:

1:00 Kings vs Horizon: 0-4
1:40 Kings vs ECP: 0-2
2:28 Kings vs JESS J J 0-2
3:00 Kings vs REPTON 0-2
3:48 Kings vs DESS 1-8
4:04 Kings vs DBS 2-2
4:28 Kings vs JESS R 2-0

The finals were JESS J vs JAPS 2-1.
JESS J won the tournament.

We all did realy well. WELL DONE!!!



Georgie

Tom's favourite video

Fantastic link! Mentally funny, BEAT EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt4X7zFfv4k

Tom T

Harvey's blog!

Hi Mr Watson  & Y6

 

This is my blog:.

http://my-mysterious-blog.blogspot.com/

 

thanks

 Harvey

Tom's Ashes report

The Ashes Test 2 Day 5 review by Tom T  

England bowled out Australia for 304 to win the second Test in Adelaide in emphatic fashion by an innings and 71 runs and take a 1-0 lead in the Ashes.

The expected rain failed to save the Australians as they resumed in warm sunshine 137 runs behind on 238-4.

After Michael Hussey fell for 52 in the sixth full over, Anderson struck twice with successful bowls.

Swann took the final wicket an hour before lunch by bowling Peter Siddle to finish with figures of 5-91.

It was an AMAZING performance from England, with almost everything going according to plan from the first over of the match, when Trott ran out Katich and Ponting was caught at slip off the next ball.

There was a brief moment of concern on the final morning when wicketkeeper Matt Prior failed to cling on to a thin edge from Hussey three balls after the left-hander had recorded his 23rd Test fifty, making fears that the man known as 'Mr Cricket' might somehow help Australia scrape a draw.

But 10 balls later Prior was relieved to see Hussey heading back to the pavilion.

The Australian attempted an out-of-character pull at the impressive Steven Finn, who used the new ball cleverly in the absence of the injured Stuart Broad, who has been ruled out of the series.

Hussey was not in control of the shot as the ball bounced higher than he expected and he could only top edge straight to Anderson at mid-on.

England still had to contend with Haddin, who had made a battling half century in the first innings.

However Anderson soon took his revenge when a great ball moved away and caught the edge, giving Prior a routine catch behind the stumps.

Harris offered no shot to the next ball, which swung back the other way, and was given out lbw, a decision confirmed after a referral to the TV umpire.

He became only the second Australian, after legendary wicketkeeper-batsman Adam Gilchrist, to be dismissed for a king pair - out first ball in both innings - in a Test match.

North was the only senior batsman left and well though he played for 22, he was sent on his way after England referred an lbw appeal by Swann and replays showed the ball would have gone on to hit the middle stump.

Australia were failing dramatically.

On that day England lost nine wickets for 60 runs, a feeling Australia became increasingly familiar with as North departed to become the fourth wicket to fall in the space of six overs for the addition of only 25 runs.

Doherty's unhappy match ended when he was bowled by Swann, who ended the contest with a perfect off-break that turned in between Siddle's bat and pad to give England their 100th Test victory against Australia, their first win against them by an innings for 24 years.

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The final wicket also gave Swann, playing only his 26th Test, his 10th five-wicket haul, making him the second England spinner to reach the mark.

For Australia, the rain they had hoped for did eventually arrive late in the afternoon but by then the England celebrations were underway

And, needing only to draw the five-match series in order to retain the Ashes, it is the tourists who are very much in a powerful position as the series moves to Perth for the third Test beginning on 16^th December. 

Marie says...

I wish a happy christmas to all year 6 hope you have a wonderful christmas  joy and laugh with all your family and friends