Year 5 26/09/2015

Date: 26th Sep 2015 @ 10:44am

First of all, well done to everybody that posted last week. We have used the posts in class to assess what we already know about space and decide what we’d like to find out. Here are some of our questions:

• What is a planet?
• Is the sun a planet?
• What is a moon? Do all planets have a moon?
• What is a black hole and how do they form?
• What are planets made of?
• Why are planets spherical?
• Why do we have seasons?
• What is a comet, a meteoroid and an asteroid?
• Is there gravity in space?

We will be trying to answer these question over the next two weeks.

In English, we have started to research Annie Taylor, who was the first woman to survive a trip over Niagara Falls, in preparation to create our own newspaper reports. We have also been looking at identifying main and subordinate clauses in complex sentences. Next week, we will be creating our own report and looking at fact and opinion, as well as selecting sources when researching!

Here are some websites for you to look at:

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/saturn

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

Would you like to save the endangered Tree Octopus?

Do you have any interesting information about Annie Taylor? Is it a fact or an opinion?

Thank you,

Mrs Frost