MrJennings

We have been thinking about "performance poems" this week - that is, poems which have been written specifically to be performed to an audience or read aloud. We have been reading some different examples and practicing in groups to perform some of them to the class.

In maths we have been looking at maths problems - deciding what maths operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and/or division) we need to use to find the correct answers. We have also been making sure we can do multiplication sums correctly.

We have learned about the different "stages" in the life of a river. We watched a video and read some pages from a book telling us about the youthful stage (or upper course), mature stage (middle course) and old age (lower course) of a river and made notes about the different features of a river at these different stages. For example, this included the kind of land that the river is flowing through at that stage, what it will be carrying along with it (stones, sand and/or mud) and the different features (such as water falls and meanders) that you would normally find in a river at that stage.

We have also begun our new history topic. We have started this by looking at some drawings showing an Anglo-Saxon settlement and using the pictures as evidence to help us think about the sort of place that a group of Saxons would be looking for if they they had to find a new place to live.