MrJennings

Our week started off with a visit by a theatre group which presented a wonderful version of "The Nutcracker". This was essentially a one-man show, with the actor narrating the bulk of the story and also using puppets (very skilfully) to represent some of the toys in the story.

In English we have done a variety of activities this week. We have make notes about the different ways authors can develop tension, written paragraphs to develop suspense at the beginning of a story and answered some comprehension questions about a suspense story.

We have been tackling a variety of problems involving shapes (and patterns in sequences of shapes) in our maths lessons and, today, did some observation work in science as we made notes about everything we noticed as a candle burned and was extinguished. We started our new unit of work in music on Monday and learned more about hill farming in geography. We thought about the different sources of income that there might be for a farmer in a mountain region and then identified expenses that he or she would have to meet. We concluded by discussing farm diversification and drawing, on an outline picture of a farm, to show what we would do, if we owned the farm, to increase our income.