Friday, January 14, 2011
10th to 14th January
The main focus for our English work this week has been instruction writing. We annotated a good example of an instruction text, identifying the key ways that the text was organised as well as the language features which are typical of this type of writing. We did some work on verbs and imperative verbs in particular and have written some instructions of our own. Today we concentrated on writing introductory paragraphs for a set of instructions to attract the reader's interest.
In maths we have continued our work on decimal numbers, doubling and halving decimal numbers, and also worked on maths problems presented in words. The problems have included ones which need a series of calculations to arrive at the answer.
On Wednesday we spent the afternoon on our ancient Greece topic thinking about the lives of children in ancient Athens. We worked out what our names would be if we had been named according to the formula that prevailed in those days and learned about how the lives of boys and girls were different from each other in ancient Athens.
We wrote up the science experiment that we did on shadows last week and had some time painting this afternoon.
In maths we have continued our work on decimal numbers, doubling and halving decimal numbers, and also worked on maths problems presented in words. The problems have included ones which need a series of calculations to arrive at the answer.
On Wednesday we spent the afternoon on our ancient Greece topic thinking about the lives of children in ancient Athens. We worked out what our names would be if we had been named according to the formula that prevailed in those days and learned about how the lives of boys and girls were different from each other in ancient Athens.
We wrote up the science experiment that we did on shadows last week and had some time painting this afternoon.
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