Sam Gayton visits the Kensukes!

Sam Gayton visited the Kensuke class today!
He is the author of 'The Snow Merchant' which was shortlisted for the Children's Book Awards.
He told us about how a story gets published and shared some of his unpublished work with us.
Follow the link below to visit Sam's website and find out more about him.

http://www.samgayton.com/

Can you remember any of the information Sam shared with us Kensukes?

Road Safety Competition

This is Walkley work on display in the Sheffield Winter Gardens! 
Well done to all the winners. Your work looks fantastic!

The Children's Book Awards

A group of year 6 children went to the Children's book awards with Mrs. Whaley and Mrs. Bracken at the Sheffield City Hall today. They found out which books won the book awards for 2012. They also got to meet some of the authors and poets. Two pupils went up on stage and performed with a poet! Well done Year 6, Mrs. Whaley was very proud of you.

 Outside the Sheffield City Hall.

 Performing with the poet!

 Mrs. Bracken also got to meet the poets and authors.

 Book signing.

 The authors signed copies of their books.

The children got to meet the poets and authors.

Weather metaphors

In our plenary for our literacy lesson we have shared some of the metaphors that we have been writing about the weather.
The fog is a blind world (OR)
The sun is the oven pouring heat (OR)
The sun is earth's blanket (BF)
The sun is a flower's friend (BF)
The rain is a plant's hero (JA)
The rain is God's tears as he cries (JA)
The rain is a plane of water bombs falling from the sky (RH)
The snow is a white blanket being thrown at the earth (AJ)
The rain is an army of water to the earth (TA)
The snow is a boulder of hail (TA)
The sun is a hard warm rock (JOG)
The snow is a dangerous ice machine (JOG)
The sun is the universes heart pumping life in to planets (BW)
The fog is a car blindfold (RJ)
The snow is an Earth freezer (RJ)
The fog is a blindfold to people (BF)
The fog is a driver's worst enemy (BF)
The rain is people crying in the air (MS)
The ice is cold and freezing (MS)
The rain is an AK 47 shooting down at the earth (DE)
The snow is fairies dressed in white (LG)
The snow is fairies painting the earth white (AJ)
Can you think of any good metaphors to share with us?

Space quiz

We have been creating our own space quizzes!
We used PowerPoint to produce multiple choice quizzes and used hyperlinking to link our question slides to 'correct' and 'incorrect' slides.
Click on the link below to have a go at JO'G and MQ 's quiz. The Kensukes voted this as the winning space quiz.
Well done JOG and MQ!

JOG and MQ space quiz

When the file is open, click on start slide show to make the quiz interactive!