2-Step Number Problems

  1. There were 11 books on a shelf and 12 books on another shelf. 7 books were taken by some children to read.  How many books were left on both shelves?

 

  1. A box of pencils holds 10 pencils when full. There are 2 full boxes of pencils.  11 pencils are then taken away to be used.  How many pencils are left?

 

  1. There are 12 sheep, 13 cows and 4 goats in a farmyard. How many animals are there altogether?

 

  1. There are 15 footballs in one bag and 5 footballs in another bag. 6 balls are used for practice.  How many balls are not used?

 

  1. There are 10 people in a room and 16 people come to join them. 7 people then leave.  How many people are left in the room?

Mean Michael and Stinky Sam written by Zachary

Once upon a time there was a man called mean Michael. He was the meanest man you have ever met, he was so mean that he made babies cry and stole money from old Grandma’s. Nobody liked mean Michael at all!

Mean Michael was as tall as a giraffe, with big green googly eyes and sticky up red hair. He lived in a big golden house at the top of a steep hill. In his garden he had giant grey metal dragon robots. Michael was so mean he made the dragons roar and scare little children as they walked past his house on the way to school.

Mean Michael only had 1 friend in the whole world and he was also not very nice, his name was stinky Sam. Every day they were unkind to people, making fun of them, playing tricks on them with the dragon robots and stealing from the old ladies. They thought they were so funny and so cool being mean and stinky to people.

One day there was a big thunder storm and one of the dragon robots in mean Michael’s garden was struck by the lightening. There was a crackle and a fizz and a big bang and suddenly the dragon came to life!! The dragon was cross because it hadn’t wanted to roar and make then children cry or steal money from old Grandma’s, the dragon wanted to be kind and caring and make people laugh and be happy.

The dragon wanted to take Michael and Sam to the police but first he was going to teach them a lesson. When Michael and Sam were snoring away in bed one night the dragon crept up to their bedroom window and roared the loudest roar you have ever heard. It was so loud it made the windows break! Michael and Sam were so scared that they started to cry and they hid in the cupboard and stayed there for 5 whole days.

When they finally came out of the cupboard the dragon robot was waiting for them and he took them to the police station at the bottom of the steep hill. The dragon made Michael and Sam tell the policeman all the mean things they had done and then the policeman put them in jail for 1 day.

The next day Michael and Sam were not mean and stinky any more, they decided it wasn’t very nice feeling scared so they made the garden into an adventure playground for all the children, and helped the old Grandmas carry their shopping home and made them cups of tea.

The dragon robot kept an eye on them and made sure they weren’t mean and stinky any more and everyone lived happily ever after.

The Mean Monday written by Alexis

“Bye, bye everyone. We’re going to Brazil!” said Saturday and Sunday. They put on their
sunglasses and sun hats, got their suitcases and they went.
All the other days started arguing because they wanted to take over their place. “Me and
Thursday are taking over the weekend.”said Wednesday. “Oh no, you’re not!” replied Mean
Monday. “I always wanted to take their place. I have been waiting for this all my life.” And then he
grabbed Wednesday by the arm and threw him high up like a rocket. Now Wednesday had a
pretty rough time. He flew over Earth, bumped into Venus and disappeared outside the universe.
“Why did you do that to Wednesday? That was very mean and anyway none of the people really
like you.” Thursday said.Monday got really cross when he heard that.” You shouldn’t have said
that. Now I’m going to throw you into the garbage centre” he shouted. He got Thursday, lifted him
up and threw him into the garbage centre. “From now on you are going to be called stinky
Thursday” he said. Poor Thursday went straight into the garbage centre, fell onto a garbage track
and all the rubbish came over on top of him. The garbage track started moving slowly to the
garbage cutter. There were blades and saws like big crocodile teeth mashing up the garbage.
Thursday got nearly squashed.
All this time Tuesday was sitting quietly and didn’t know what to do.
“Monday! Why did you do that?” shouted Friday and pushed Monday away .He then run ,picked
up the phone and called Saturday.
Ring! ring!
“Yes, this is Saturday speaking.”
“Saturday, this is Friday.”
“What is happening Friday?”
“Guys you have to come back. We need you. Mean Monday is trying to take over the weekend.
He threw Wednesday out of the universe, Thursday to the garbage centre and now he’s coming to
get me.”
Saturday and Sunday got back as fast as they could. Just as Monday was going to get rid of
Friday, Saturday stopped him and said, “First I need to have a little talk with you Monday. Why are
you doing this?”
“I didn’t do anything. What are you talking about?” Lied Mean Monday. So Saturday had to
punish him by sending him to a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Then he brought Wednesday and Thursday back and since then there are no more Mondays in
the week and all the people are happy.

Science – Forces and Friction

We are learning how friction and gradient can alter the speed / distance of a travelling vehicle.

The boys will enjoy the following links,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/8_9/friction_fs.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/6_7/forces_movement_fs.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/digger/7_9entry/7.shtml

Please comment to let us know how you got on.

Have fun exploring!

The exploding volcano written by Christopher

Once upon a time in a far away land there was a volcano that was erupting.  All the people were so scared.  They decided to let the volcano erupt anyway as they didn’t know how to stop it.  But they got more and more scared and everything was melting in hot lava.  Then the people decided to call for help.  So an old wizard came and told the volcanoes that they could not erupt and all the volcanoes had to hold their lava; but there was one volcano that couldn’t stop itself so it erupted but the wizard changed the lava into candy floss.  It was magic candy floss.  It landed in a pig farm and all the pigs called it pig floss sundae.  When they ate it it made them clever.  The grand Queen pig was in her palace with the pigs. 

“I order you to stop the volcano erupting!” said the Queen pig, “if we keep eating all this candy floss we will get fat and then the farmer will kill us so that he can have bacon for his tea”.  The farmer was a chubby man who was very greedy.  He was called Mr Greedy by the pigs.  They didn’t like the farmer as he was mean and they didn’t want to be eaten.  This made the pigs sad.  How were the pigs going to stop the volcano erupting?  So, all the pigs went to stop it but of course they could not stop it so they had to leave.  They all ran away and caught a big ship that was sailing to South America.  The Queen pig went with them as well.  But then when they were sailing in the Atlantic Ocean, there was a ginormous rock and they hit it and the big ship sank.  But luckily all the pigs got into life boats and they managed to row themselves away.  Some of the pigs didn’t get into a life boat so they had to swim and climb in.  Luckily they were close to South America so they paddled along in the lifeboats to South America.  They arrived at South America and met a person, who took them to a hotel.  The hotel was beautiful and it had everything the pigs wanted and everything they could wish for.  The pigs were very happy and decided to buy the hotel and stay there forever.  They were glad that they had become clever and that they had escaped the volcanoes and their life in a smelly pig farm.  They were also glad that they had run away from the farmer who had wanted to kill them and eat them.  They decided to make a new home where all pigs in the world could go and be safe.  They celebrated with pig cakes, which were made with lots of bits of pig food in it.  All the pigs liked it and they went to bed happy and said Oink very loudly. 

Jake And The Extremely Horrible Forest written by Priyan 

 

One day, there was a boy called Jake. He went into a horrible forest with 1,000,000 zombies. When Jake was in the forest, he was so scared that he was crying because there were zombies surrounding him and the tress were alive. The branches were like swords on the trees. 

The king of all the monsters was called ‘Madoosa’. He made a machine that could shoot 5,000,000 lasers and poisonous acid. As the machine was going to shoot him, Jake held out his shield. The lasers and the acid bounced off the shield and hit ten zombies and two trees. Jake held his sword and shot two zombies down. With his sword he tried to take down the Madoosa. But Madoosa took the sword out of Jake’s hand and threw it into the tree’s mouth who ate it because it was his dinner time.  

Jake had to run away from the Madoosa, but Madoosa had so many weapons that Jake could not run past him easily. Madoosa picked up Jake and tried to squeeze him. Jake got his dagger and stabbed Madoosa in his neck, but it did him no harm. Jake knew that the Madoosa had a weak spot and he was determined to find it.  He thought that by killing the snakes on him the Madoosa would feel weak and die. But Madoosa did not seem to be hurt at all. In fact, he said ‘I am going to kill you Jake and suck your blood, ha ha ha ha’. 

Jake started to feel scared, he thought that he would not get out of the forest alive. One of the zombies tried to get Jake but Jake was telling the Madoosa ‘You will never get me. I am going to kick you really hard’. When Jake lifted his foot to kick him, he accidentally hit a zombie coming from behind him and knocked him down and twenty other zombies. 

Jake was running around the Madoosa and he spotted a red dot on the Madoosa’s back. Jake thought that this might be the creature’s weak spot. He took his special gun and shot at the red spot. The Madoosa cried so much because he was in pain. Green slimy blood was squirting out of his back. The blood dripped onto the ground and this sloppy liquid then turned into more zombies. These zombies followed Jake as he tried to run away. When Jake was running, he bumped into the Madoosa who got very angry. He got back up and loaded his machine again and this time shot at Jake so hard that Jake fell and could not move. The Madoosa got his zombies to tie up Jake and put him in the forest jail. Jake manged to get out of jail with his dagger and finally defeated the evil Madoosa. Jake found a cool castle on his way home and had an AMAZING fun party and lived happily ever after. 

 

Knight Fighter and the chocolate people written by Charlie

 

There was a man walking along a pavement in Little Town one night, he was whistling to himself. He was blocked by a big wall of chocolate. Chocolate people were coming out of the wall towards him. He was very shocked!  One of the chocolate people touched him and he turned into a chocolate statue. 

 

The chocolate people carried on touching people all around Little Town.  The people of Little Town ran away from the chocolate people.  The Little Town police were trying to stop the chocolate people from touching the citizens of Little Town, doing everything they could.  More and more people were being turned into chocolate statues, someone shouted “What can we do, we need Knight Fighter.” 

 

Just then the superhero called Knight Fighter saw what was going on.  He was watching from the sky because he could fly. He was very cross to see what was going on to his friends in Little Town.  Someone in Little Town saw Knight Fighter and shouted “Knight Fighter come and save us”, but as he was saying it he was touched by a chocolate person and turned into a chocolate statue like all the others. 

 

Knight Fighter was really strong and wore a metal cape and he had two huge metal swords on his belt and small daggers all around it. He had a bow and arrow hanging over his shoulder.  He was very nice and a good friend of the people of Little Town.  He flew down and captured the chocolate people baddies and put them in to Little Town jail.  More chocolate people were still coming out of the wall though. Knight Fighter kept catching them and putting them in jail but it wasn’t enough. More and more people were being turned into chocolate statues. 

 

Knight Fighter flew up over the chocolate wall and he saw where the chocolate people were coming from. It was a chocolate machine! Knight Fighter destroyed the machine with his sword and then followed the man who had been controlling the chocolate machine.  The man was called The Sweetie Eater and he was really big and had a really big belly from eating so many sweets.  His teeth were black from all the sweets and his hair was made out of candy floss.  He was wearing a Haribo ring on every finger and he looked really sticky.  

 

Knight Fighter followed The Sweetie Eater to an enormous metal door and The Sweetie Eater went through the door.  Knight Fighter went into the deep deep lair behind the door, he saw that The Sweetie Eater was making another chocolate machine.  He captured The Sweetie Eater and destroyed the new chocolate machine and saved the day!  Knight Fighter went back through the door and lifted it up and threw it into space. 

 

As the sun rose the chocolate on the statue people melted and the people came back to life.  The people of Little Town were amazed and instead of Little Town they called the town Knight Town.    

 

The Sweetie Man was never seen again. 

 

Keep fighting crime!