MrJennings

Today we began our new unit of work in maths, thinking about mental maths and different ways of doing multiplication and division sums in your head. Then we had some time in the computer room learning how to play and stop sounds in Powerpoint. By the end of the lesson everyone had produced an interactive, multi-purpose greetings card using powerpoint. After a title page, the children created an index (using hyperlinks that we learned about last week) to allow the user to select their celebration (including Christmas, Birthday, New Year, Wedding, etc.). They made these links open individual pages on which the children had placed a suitable picture, a button to play a tune appropriate to that occasion and a further button to stop the music. They all worked really well.

This afternoon we read the penultimate chapter of Awful Annie and did some more descriptive writing. This time the children tried using our success criteria to mark their own and each other's work. We finished the day with some geography - thinking about some geographical vocabulary related to mountain environments.