We are communicators

In ICT we have begun a new topic called We are communicators!

What different ways can we communicate with each other?

Quadblogging

For the month of May, Big Ben class has been signed up to take part in Quadblogging! This is a fantastic opportunity to make links with other class blogs around the world.

We are going to be sharing our blog with another class in the UK, one class from USA and another from Australia. For an entire week in May, each classroom will take turns as the spotlight blog while the other three view the blogposts and leave comments.

Click on the link below to find out all the information about the quadblogging:

http://cavbraingain.blogspot.co.uk/

                   Our blog will be under the spotlight from the 19th May for the week!

Be a Mathemagician!

 Click on this link to take you to a fantastic page on the Chatsworth Primary School website to help you with your targets

http://www.chatsworthprimaryschool.co.uk/be-a-mathemagician/

25th April 2014

As we are preparing for our Wesak assembly on Friday 2nd May and some of you are finishing your Roman projects for the half term, there will be no Literacy Homework this week.

However, here is a Thunk for you to discuss and debate on the blog:

IS HAPPINESS SOMETHING YOU HAVE OR SOMETHING THAT YOU FIND?


Remember to read through your blog comment and make sure your sentences make sense and you have used full stops and capital letters.

Challenge Me!

Here's a Maths challenge for you to try over the Easter holiday: 

Calculator Bingo

This game is for you to play against the computer. However, you could easily use your own calculators and adapt it to play away from a computer.
The object of the game is to be the first to get exactly to zero.
How to play:

1. Enter a 7-digit number into your calculator. You may use the same digit more than once. The computer will also put a number into its calculator.
2. A random number will appear at the top of the screen. If this digit appears in the number you have on your calculator, you can change that digit to zero by subtracting the appropriate number using the calculator keys.
3. If you subtract the correct amount, this digit will automatically change to zero. If you are incorrect, you will be allowed another chance.
4. For every random number given, you can only remove one digit from your calculator. So if you have, for example, four 3's you must wait for 3 to come up four times.
5. The computer will do the same thing as you for each number.
6. The first to reach exactly zero is the winner.

Lewis Carroll hated fame

Lewis Carroll hated fame

(Based on the article by The Daily Telegraph)

Alice in Wonderland made Lewis Carroll a famous man
  Photo: © ThinkstockEnlarge image

First published in 1865, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a classic children's story that generationsXgroups of people who were born in roughly the same time period of children have read and loved.
However, the author hated being famous.
Although he was known as Lewis Carroll to most people, the name was actually made up.
His real name was Charles Dodgson.
He used the name 'Lewis Carroll' in order to avoid fans and autograph huntersXpeople who like to collect the signatures of celebrities.
A newly uncovered letter, written by Carroll to a friend in 1891, is helping to explain why.
In it he says that strangers would probably point at him and stare if they knew who Mr Dodgson really was.
He disliked this idea so much that he sometimes wished he 'had never written any books at all'.
Lewis Carroll was so successful that even Queen Victoria wrote to him to say how much she liked his stories.
But he would go to great lengths to avoid attracting attention.
If he received letters from fans who used his real name, he would send them back with a note claiming not to know anything about Lewis Carroll or his writing.
Carroll's letter recently appeared at an auctionXa type of sale, often held in a special building, in which items are sold to the person who offers the most money in London. It sold for £11 825.

This letter written by the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has revealed how much he hated being famous.

Lewis Carroll didn't use his real name in public because he was afraid people would 'point and stare' if they knew who he was.

He even wished he had never written the books that made him so well known.

• Would you like to be famous? Why / why not?
• What kinds of problems can fame cause?
• If you could go back in time and offer Lewis Carroll a piece of advice, what would you say? 

Easter Holiday - Homework

Over the Easter holiday, Big Ben class have been asked to begin researching our Summer term topic.... The Romans!

Below is a 'bust' of a famous Roman person. Can you guess who it might be? What clues are there?