Friday, May 07, 2010
3rd to 7th May
This has been a short week at school with the Bank Holiday on Monday.
We have started a new unit of work in English which is all about persuasive writing. We started our studies by examining some magazine advertisements. Using these we thought about the vocabulary and language techniques used by the writers and the ways that the writers address the readers of the adverts. Later in the week we wrote adverts of our own trying to include the sorts of language we had identified. We have also done some work identifying statements of opinion and fact in adverts and other forms of writing.
One of our main areas of work this week has been setting up a science investigation to find out the conditions needed for seeds to germinate. We explored what we know about planning fair tests and then thought about the conditions that seeds normally have for germination. Different groups of children then wrote plans for an experiments to investigate different variables that might be important in germination. We have now set up these tests and are checking the seeds every day to see which conditions encourage most successful germination.
Our maths work on decimals and calculations has continued - we have spent most time on division and working towards long multiplication calculations this week. We have also had a couple of PE sessions, music and design technology. In technology we used card construction to make a device to help us investigate levers including the effect on the output movement of altering the position of the pivot point (and how this can amplify or reduce movement).
We have started a new unit of work in English which is all about persuasive writing. We started our studies by examining some magazine advertisements. Using these we thought about the vocabulary and language techniques used by the writers and the ways that the writers address the readers of the adverts. Later in the week we wrote adverts of our own trying to include the sorts of language we had identified. We have also done some work identifying statements of opinion and fact in adverts and other forms of writing.
One of our main areas of work this week has been setting up a science investigation to find out the conditions needed for seeds to germinate. We explored what we know about planning fair tests and then thought about the conditions that seeds normally have for germination. Different groups of children then wrote plans for an experiments to investigate different variables that might be important in germination. We have now set up these tests and are checking the seeds every day to see which conditions encourage most successful germination.
Our maths work on decimals and calculations has continued - we have spent most time on division and working towards long multiplication calculations this week. We have also had a couple of PE sessions, music and design technology. In technology we used card construction to make a device to help us investigate levers including the effect on the output movement of altering the position of the pivot point (and how this can amplify or reduce movement).
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