Thursday, September 30, 2010
26th to 30th September
We have had a short week at school as the teachers have an INSET Day tomorrow (Friday 1st October).
In English we have done a little more on our fictions writing - thinking about writing engaging story openings, which we started last week. We have also done a lot of reading work to help broaden and develop reading skills. We have been reading to identify the main idea in a paragraph, reading to pick out different types of detail. We have also been reading for information. As part of this we have used a scanning strategy to find where information is on a page and then close reading to understand the material. We have recorded the information and then examined another source of information to try to confirm what we have found. If the sources contradict or seem to contradict each other, we have tried to find further sources to help us decide what is correct. We have also discussed how we can consider the reliability of sources of information. Our main maths work this week has been concerned with measures (mainly of length) and converting between units (including mm, cm, m and km).
In addition to science, PE and music, we have had same time in the computer suite developing and presenting our expanded noun phrases (based on The Hooligan's Shampoo) and we have done some atlas work in geography - identifying the locations of the countries of the United Kingdom, their capital cities and major rivers on outline maps. Some then went on to do the same for some European countries.
In English we have done a little more on our fictions writing - thinking about writing engaging story openings, which we started last week. We have also done a lot of reading work to help broaden and develop reading skills. We have been reading to identify the main idea in a paragraph, reading to pick out different types of detail. We have also been reading for information. As part of this we have used a scanning strategy to find where information is on a page and then close reading to understand the material. We have recorded the information and then examined another source of information to try to confirm what we have found. If the sources contradict or seem to contradict each other, we have tried to find further sources to help us decide what is correct. We have also discussed how we can consider the reliability of sources of information. Our main maths work this week has been concerned with measures (mainly of length) and converting between units (including mm, cm, m and km).
In addition to science, PE and music, we have had same time in the computer suite developing and presenting our expanded noun phrases (based on The Hooligan's Shampoo) and we have done some atlas work in geography - identifying the locations of the countries of the United Kingdom, their capital cities and major rivers on outline maps. Some then went on to do the same for some European countries.
# posted by Mr Jennings : 6:39 pm
