According to Horrid Henry Happiness is...

HAPPINESS IS...
ruining Perfect Peter´s party
eating all the cake he wants
opening all the presents
eating with his hands
playing tricks on Miss Battle-axe
watching Rapper Zapper when he wants to
a Super Soaker 5000
playing pranks on Perfect Peter
being horrid to other people
making Vomiting Vera vomit
joking with his friends
not having homework
getting Moody Margaret to admit his tree-house is the best
getting the soft black settee to sit on
destroying his school
playing with his secret club, the Purple Hands
soaking Moody Margaret with the Super Soaker 5000
getting the best part in the school show
getting to his room and playing all afternoon
listening to rock music loudly
watching his favourite TV channel
smacking Peter
playing tricks on everyone
being horrid to everyone!

Happiness is...

This is from "Snoopy", a programme that was very popular when I was young.
Tomorrow, we are going to write our own happiness poem but thinking about it from Horrid Henry's point of view!!



HAPPINESS IS FINDING A PENCIL.
PIZZA WITH SAUSAGE
TELLING THE TIME.
HAPPINESS IS LEARNING TO WHISTLE.
TYING YOUR SHOE FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.

HAPPINESS IS PLAYING THE DRUM IN YOUR OWN SCHOOL BAND.
AND HAPPINESS IS WALKING HAND IN HAND.
HAPPINESS IS TWO KINDS OF ICE CREAM.
KNOWING A SECRET.
CLIMBING A TREE.
HAPPINESS IS FIVE DIFFERENT CRAYONS.
CATCHING A FIREFLY.
SETTING HIM FREE.

HAPPINESS IS BEING ALONE EVERY NOW AND THEN.
AND HAPPINESS IS COMING HOME AGAIN.
HAPPINESS IS MORNING AND EVENING,
DAY TIME AND NIGHT TIME TOO.
FOR HAPPINESS IS ANYONE AND ANYTHING AT ALL
THAT'S LOVED BY YOU.

HAPPINESS IS HAVING A SISTER.
SHARING A SANDWICH.
GETTING ALONG.
HAPPINESS IS SINGING TOGETHER WHEN DAY IS THROUGH,
AND HAPPINESS IS THOSE WHO SING WITH YOU.
HAPPINESS IS MORNING AND EVENING,
DAYTIME AND NIGHTTIME TOO.
FOR HAPPINESS IS ANYONE AND ANYTHING AT ALL
THAT'S LOVED BY YOU.

Message from 5A to Nani

Nani,

We all hope that you come on Friday and that you get well today.
Have a good day with your doggies, Duna and Scotty.
Relax please.
Don´t worry about metaphors, we are going to study them tomorrow. :)

Love from 5A

Christmas is coming!

As you all know, Christmas is already under way in our classroom what with our Christmas pop-up stories for art, Horrid Henry mini-movie in drama and Secret Santa presents to buy.

So...

next week I am going to put up our Christmas tree in the corner of the room and there will be lots of little activities you can do to dress it when you have finished your work (well!) in lesson time. Remember not to wrap your present yet as we'll be making our own wrapping paper as one of the activities.

We could all go out and buy things for the classroom and for the tree but as I keep saying, I love to see how creative YOU are! You are all GREAT artists and I can't wait to see YOUR display for once. Let me know if there are any particular things you would like to make or materials you may need. This is your last year in primary so let's make it really special!

We will then have a Christmas party together where we will pull our home-made crackers, eat, drink and play games. Maybe you would like to plan the day with me. Let me know!!

Also, let me know as soon as possible if you are not here in the last week so we can make sure we celebrate with you too.

Can you tell I'm excited about Christmas?!!

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Well done

Natalia, we are all so happy that you feel better. Rest tomorrow and then hopefully we shall all see you on Friday. Thank you for coming into school this afternoon to see us.

I was so PROUD of all of you today.
Natalia: for being so grown-up and letting Miss Ana know as soon as possible. Everyone else: for being so mature and patient whilst Miss Lindsay and Miss Ana made sure Natalia was ok.

Well done to everyone!

Amazon books

Lots of you asked me to add the Amazon website today so that your parents can buy books over the internet.

Let me know if you need any help understanding the website.

Spellings for next Monday (interesting verbs)

1. creep crept
2. crawl crawled
3. stamp stamped
4. dawdle dawdled
5. tip-toe tip-toed
6. dash dashed
7. gallop galloped
8. hurry hurried
9. jog jogged
10. rush rushed
11. sprint sprinted
12. speed sped
13. cheer cheered
14. talk talked
15. express expressed
16. roar roared
17. bellow bellowed
18. yell yelled
19. munch munched
20. chew chewed
21. scoff scoffed
22. devour devoured
23. swallow swallowed
24. trudge trudged
25. amble ambled

Remember to draw your word out for display by Wednesday!

A class poem, "I am..."

I am... ORANGE ad

This is an advert in Britain for the mobile phone company Orange.

Since Hannah Moved Away

Since Hannah Moved Away
by Judith Viorst


The tires on my bike are flat.
The sky is grouchy gray.
At least it sure feels like that
Since Hanna moved away.

Chocolate ice cream tastes like prunes.
December's come to stay.
They've taken back the Mays and Junes
Since Hanna moved away.

Flowers smell like halibut.
Velvet feels like hay.
Every handsome dog's a mutt
Since Hanna moved away.

Nothing's fun to laugh about.
Nothing's fun to play.
They call me, but I won't come out
Since Hanna moved away.



I really like this poem. Can you find any similes or metaphors?

Similes

Hope you all enjoyed Angels' party tonight. What was the best bit?

Next week we are going to write simile descriptions like these about each other.
Watch this to get an idea what we'll be doing.

Enjoy your weekend!

Miss Sam

Teacher Tube

Improving your writing song

Personification in your favourite songs

Let me know any songs you know (with the lyrics) that show PERSONIFICATION.
Send a comment to this post please.
If you are still confused, don't worry. This is what we'll be doing for three weeks!!

What is personification?

Excellent video about personification

Like all of you, one of my favourite things when I am not at school is to listen to my favourite music. You will be surprised how much poetry you can find in song lyrics. We will be starting our poetry work next week and will be learning about similes, metaphors and personification.

Watch this video featuring some of my favourite pop groups and we will talk about it more next week. I hope you enjoy the songs!

Spellings for Monday!

Here are the spellings for Monday.
You might even use them in your homework tonight (to improve the usage of adjectives in your flashback short story).

unbelievable
heartbroken
unusual
marvellous
blue
unfortunate
gorgeous
melancholic
excited
amazing
sumptuous
miserable
delightful
joyful
dreadful

See you tomorrow!

p.s Make sure you understand what each word means!!
p.p.s Many thanks to Miss Zena for these.

What a great trip!!

I think we all enjoyed Angels' birthday this year!!
What a great trip it was: perfect weather, fun games and not a moment to stop!
I will add some photos here when I have downloaded them.
You behaved excellently, well done.
See you tomorrow.
Have a good rest tonight - I know I will!!

Miss Sam

Mixed/improper fractions

A big thank you to Natalia N's mum for pointing this out to us tonight.
She pointed out that when we do our JOTTINGS we might write something that is incorrect in maths. For example I wrote:

5x5=25+3=28
Your jottings are there to help you work out the answer clearly. I write my method as one line even though it is not mathematically correct as I am only doing jottings to help me work it out. Please do not get confused.
5x5 is not the same as 25+3 5x5 is not the same as 28 either.

Instead you could write 5x5=25
25+3=28

Thanks again!

Santa Cristina - don't worry!

We will talk about the trip tomorrow. Don't worry!!

Important message for Natalia!

Natalia,

Remember that Miss Lindsay would like you to have a family member with us on the trip to Sa. Cristina on Wednesday.

Let me know tomorrow please!

Miss Sam

Maths revision

Thanks again to Mr Tom for this!
Tomorrw, we will be revising some of the things we have studied this year. We will record in both Spanish and English how to do short division with remainders, long division and long multiplication. Hopefully that will help your parents to understand how we do our maths in class.

See you tomorrow!

Fab fraction rap

Here is a fab video Mr Tom found to help with improper fractions.
I know you will love it!

The Piano

Pop up Christmas card

Pop up Christmas photo album

Fantastic pop up book

Thank you birthday girl!

Thank you to the birthday girl for her great rice pudding today!
Sorry, we forgot to sing "Happy birthday" - we will do so tomorrow!
Enjoy your evening!
Miss Sam

Micro-organisms

Measures