Saturday, June 11, 2011
6th to 10th June
We have begun a number of new pieces of work this week, the first after our half term holiday.
In English we are reading the novel Grandpa Chatterji as our unit of work is about stories from other cultures. We have started making notes about how Indian culture is reflected in the book and also done some character study work and begun re-writing an episode from the point of view of one of the characters.
We have also started a new geography topic. We are studying the Lake District as a part of the country which contrasts with our own. We have learned about National Parks and watched a video giving an overview of the area. Then we have started studying farming in the Lake District, finding out about how the landscape affects farmers and farming in the area and how the activity of farming affects the landscape.
Another new unit of work is our design technology topic on automata. We will be designing and making automata but this week we looked at some examples of automata and learned about the vocabulary to name different parts of the mechanisms. Then we made a simple automaton to investigate the effects of cams.
In English we are reading the novel Grandpa Chatterji as our unit of work is about stories from other cultures. We have started making notes about how Indian culture is reflected in the book and also done some character study work and begun re-writing an episode from the point of view of one of the characters.
We have also started a new geography topic. We are studying the Lake District as a part of the country which contrasts with our own. We have learned about National Parks and watched a video giving an overview of the area. Then we have started studying farming in the Lake District, finding out about how the landscape affects farmers and farming in the area and how the activity of farming affects the landscape.
Another new unit of work is our design technology topic on automata. We will be designing and making automata but this week we looked at some examples of automata and learned about the vocabulary to name different parts of the mechanisms. Then we made a simple automaton to investigate the effects of cams.
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