Friday, February 12, 2010
8th to 12th February
In our final week of the half term we have completed our unit of work on myths and legends and begun a new unit in maths.
In English we have finished watching a series of videos telling the story of The Odyssey. We have considered the features of myths and legends and compared and contrasted these genres. We have also written a new episode in the style of The Odyssey. The maths work has focused on number patterns and relationships between numbers. We investigated general rules of addition and subtraction of odd and even numbers and used knowledge of facts (such as 15+8=23) to quickly and easily find answers to calculations (e.g. 1500+800=?) involving larger numbers.
We have spend several lessons on our local history topic this week to draw this to a close. We have looked at maps of Nottingham to discover what can be learned from these. We found our that many of the roads appearing on a map produced in 1610 can still be seen today. We also found that the road names from 1610 (many of which have not changed) could tell us something about the activity that went on in that place in the middle ages. (We found where the fishermen, smiths, carters and wheelwrights worked. We found where the butchers had their properties and where the tanners and dyers plied their trades.)
We had science and two PE sessions and finished our water colour painting unit by painting flowers or a meadow of spring flowers.
We are now on our school half-term holiday and the teacher have a training day on Monday 22nd February.
School re-opens on Tuesday 23rd February.
In English we have finished watching a series of videos telling the story of The Odyssey. We have considered the features of myths and legends and compared and contrasted these genres. We have also written a new episode in the style of The Odyssey. The maths work has focused on number patterns and relationships between numbers. We investigated general rules of addition and subtraction of odd and even numbers and used knowledge of facts (such as 15+8=23) to quickly and easily find answers to calculations (e.g. 1500+800=?) involving larger numbers.
We have spend several lessons on our local history topic this week to draw this to a close. We have looked at maps of Nottingham to discover what can be learned from these. We found our that many of the roads appearing on a map produced in 1610 can still be seen today. We also found that the road names from 1610 (many of which have not changed) could tell us something about the activity that went on in that place in the middle ages. (We found where the fishermen, smiths, carters and wheelwrights worked. We found where the butchers had their properties and where the tanners and dyers plied their trades.)
We had science and two PE sessions and finished our water colour painting unit by painting flowers or a meadow of spring flowers.
We are now on our school half-term holiday and the teacher have a training day on Monday 22nd February.
School re-opens on Tuesday 23rd February.
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