Wednesday, February 25, 2009
24th and 25th February
After missing a day of school on Monday (because of an INSET day for the teachers) we had our usual Tuesday sessions of French, PSHCE and PE in the yesterday afternoon. While this was going on a few of us went to the Wheldon School for an athletics competition against other local schools. We did a series of running, jumping and throwing events and managed to win a closely fought event to earn a place in the area finals.
Yesterday morning we began a new unit of maths work about measurement. We revised ideas about place value and rounding numbers using measurement data and then practised decimal addition and subtraction involving weights and also did some long multiplication. Today's maths moved on to problem soving activities, again based on weight number and requiring conversion of weights from one unit to another (e.g. grams to kilograms).
We have also begun a new unit of work in English this week as we have turned our attention to poetry again. This time our study is focussing on different forms of poetry - so far we have looked at Limericks and Haiku. We also had a writing afternoon today. Thinking back to the leaflet we wrote at the end of last half term, we looked at samples of writing done by other children and tried to evaluate these pieces of work. Then we looked at a mark scheme written for this task before thinking about our own piece of writing again which we then began improving.
Yesterday morning we began a new unit of maths work about measurement. We revised ideas about place value and rounding numbers using measurement data and then practised decimal addition and subtraction involving weights and also did some long multiplication. Today's maths moved on to problem soving activities, again based on weight number and requiring conversion of weights from one unit to another (e.g. grams to kilograms).
We have also begun a new unit of work in English this week as we have turned our attention to poetry again. This time our study is focussing on different forms of poetry - so far we have looked at Limericks and Haiku. We also had a writing afternoon today. Thinking back to the leaflet we wrote at the end of last half term, we looked at samples of writing done by other children and tried to evaluate these pieces of work. Then we looked at a mark scheme written for this task before thinking about our own piece of writing again which we then began improving.
# posted by Mr Jennings : 7:41 pm
