MrJennings

We have had a busy first week following our half-term holiday.

In maths we have been working on shape (the properties of rectangles and equilateral, isosceles and scalene triangles). We also did some work on coordinates - including enjoying some games of Battleships.

In English we completed our work on ancient Greek myths and legends. We have been making a great effort to improve our writing by focussing on different ways of starting a sentence. The ones we have worked on are as follow:
proper noun
pronoun
possessive pronoun
adverb (eg ~ly words)
verb (eg ~ing words)
connectives (eg words such as While..., Although..., Because..., Suddenly... and phrases such as As soon as...)

We have spent some time on our ancient Greek work his week. We did had an interesting study of ancient Greek homes, comparing some features of their designs with modern British homes and also looking at evidence which might allow us to explain the development of house design in ancient Greece. Then we turned to farming in ancient Greece and used picture evidence from pictures of original vase paintings to explain how the olive harvest was accomplished in those days.