We are going to be writing letters to the CEO of Innocent Smoothies - why are they using plastic straws? Will we be able to persuade them to change their ways?

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Newsround - Plastic in our oceans

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/38949047/embed

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Super blue blood moon - have a look tonight!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42817785

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Finding common denominators

Least Common Multiple.

How to Make Flubber. Mixing materials to make a change!

Rowan class made salt crystals today! Come and have a look.

Can you order improper fractions and mixed numbers?

Ordering improper fractions and mixed numbers

Adding tunes to our lyrics

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Lyrics in progress

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Learning fractions with Swiss rolls!

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Making changes! Science work for next week.

https://youtu.be/Cts3MrHnYIU

Trash girl

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-42788959

Reduce reuse recycle

https://www.lushusa.com/Stories-Article?cid=article_reduce-reuse-recycle

Sketching using non dominant hand

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Copying a picture upside down

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Sketching a rose without taking your pencil off the page

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Planning a Pirate Island - problem solving using our knowledge and understanding of finding the approximate area of irregular shapes

Finding the rules of equivalent fractions

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Separating mixtures by different techniques

Have a go at a fraction game

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/fractions-and-decimals

Challenge yourself!

Building a fraction wall

Some quick revision....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/z46pvcw

It's that time of year again! The BBC's 500 words competition is open again.

Click on the following link to find out more. 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4h26FXFQ4KfMV7VVSbJxY3g/500-words-2018

If you wish to enter, you can write your stories at home.  I am happy to read any work and give advise during Monday's homework sessions.

Good luck and happy writing!

Mrs Heenan

What happens if you put Ivory soap into a microwave? We have been exploring the properties of foams.

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If you cut off a piece from a shape, you reduce its area and perimeter. True or false?

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Blue Planet II

Watch the clip showing the 'Dangers of plastics in our oceans'.

Describe how this makes you feel in three powerful words.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04tjbtx/clips

Let's think like scientists

Does everything dissolve?  Is there a universal solvent?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zx7w2hv

Area and perimeter game

index.html?page=lessons&lesson=m6lessonshell12.swf

All that plastic!

I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it: Storm Eleanor leaves 'tidal wave of waste' in Cornwall -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-42609723

Learning new ways to master those tricky spellings!

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Watch "Say No To Plastic Bags!"

https://youtu.be/NpeATp-sWd4

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Science Bob's Crazy Foam Experiment. Have a look..we will be learning all about foam this week.

The Most Magnificent Thing