Friday, June 25, 2010
19th to 22nd July
We have has a short week at school as Friday as been an INSET day (a training day for the teachers).
On Monday, we had a special music day on which we listened to a lot of different types of music. We wrote about some of them and drew some pictures in response to others. Another activity was composing and performing music using percussion instruments. We used glockenspiels and untuned percussion instruments (ones made of metal) to compose "chinese" style music with question and answer phrases played by different people. We practiced these, added beginning and ending sections, and then performed them to the class.
We had another special day on Wednesday when we all went to The Wheldon School for an Arts Day. We did a series of activities there on the theme of Africa. We tried African drumming, painting (in which we looked at colouration of African animals and produced masks based on one of the animals), music (singing songs set in Africa and playing them on electronic keyboards) and dance (in which we created a dance based on moves in an advertisement for the Football World Cup in South Africa). We had a really good day.
In between times, we did some more of our Lake District geography project and some maths.
On Monday, we had a special music day on which we listened to a lot of different types of music. We wrote about some of them and drew some pictures in response to others. Another activity was composing and performing music using percussion instruments. We used glockenspiels and untuned percussion instruments (ones made of metal) to compose "chinese" style music with question and answer phrases played by different people. We practiced these, added beginning and ending sections, and then performed them to the class.
We had another special day on Wednesday when we all went to The Wheldon School for an Arts Day. We did a series of activities there on the theme of Africa. We tried African drumming, painting (in which we looked at colouration of African animals and produced masks based on one of the animals), music (singing songs set in Africa and playing them on electronic keyboards) and dance (in which we created a dance based on moves in an advertisement for the Football World Cup in South Africa). We had a really good day.
In between times, we did some more of our Lake District geography project and some maths.
# posted by Mr Jennings : 8:38 pm
Sunday, June 20, 2010
12th to 16th June
We have had a big focus on geography this week.
The area of study is the Lake District. After watching a video introducing the region, we have thought about farming in the area, reflecting on the type of farming that takes place and who this affects and is affected by the landscape as well as changes that have taken place in that industry. Then we moved on to consider the tourist industry and how tourists affect the area.
In maths we have undertaken a series of maths investigations related to shape. These have included pentominoes and dice investigations and activities involving visualising three dimensional shapes.
The area of study is the Lake District. After watching a video introducing the region, we have thought about farming in the area, reflecting on the type of farming that takes place and who this affects and is affected by the landscape as well as changes that have taken place in that industry. Then we moved on to consider the tourist industry and how tourists affect the area.
In maths we have undertaken a series of maths investigations related to shape. These have included pentominoes and dice investigations and activities involving visualising three dimensional shapes.
# posted by Mr Jennings : 10:18 pm
