Friday, October 07, 2011
3rd to 6th October
We have had a short week this week as the teachers had an INSET day on Friday - our traditional "Goose Fair" INSET day in case parents wanted to take their children to the fair.
We have continued our focus in writing in our English lessons. We have worked with a partner to write a paragraph about the River Amazon, making sure that we used a clear, simple sentence to start the paragraph and then follow this with sentences which add details and examples trying to start these sentences in different ways. We then marked our own work against our success criteria before working by ourselves to write a similar paragraph about the River Nile. Later in the week we did some work on adverbs and thinking about how these words can add precision and variety to our writing.
Next week we will be writing non-fiction paragraphs which will build into a full non-chronological report about the different stages in the "life" of a river. In advance of this, in our geography lessons, we watched a video about the River Severn and used this and information from a text book to find out and make notes about sources of rivers.
In maths, after completing our work on graphs with some mathematical experiments in which the results were presented in bar or bar-line charts, we started thinking about measures and converting measures into different units (e.g. converting kilometres to metres, metres to centimetres, centimetres to millimetres and vice versa). We also practised measuring accurately in millimetres.
Although we only had a four day week, we managed to fit in an art lesson, this time learning how to produce graduated washes using water colour. This was a development of the work we did last week using pencil crayons and the resulting painted washes will form the backgrounds to our finished pictures of winter trees.
We have continued our focus in writing in our English lessons. We have worked with a partner to write a paragraph about the River Amazon, making sure that we used a clear, simple sentence to start the paragraph and then follow this with sentences which add details and examples trying to start these sentences in different ways. We then marked our own work against our success criteria before working by ourselves to write a similar paragraph about the River Nile. Later in the week we did some work on adverbs and thinking about how these words can add precision and variety to our writing.
Next week we will be writing non-fiction paragraphs which will build into a full non-chronological report about the different stages in the "life" of a river. In advance of this, in our geography lessons, we watched a video about the River Severn and used this and information from a text book to find out and make notes about sources of rivers.
In maths, after completing our work on graphs with some mathematical experiments in which the results were presented in bar or bar-line charts, we started thinking about measures and converting measures into different units (e.g. converting kilometres to metres, metres to centimetres, centimetres to millimetres and vice versa). We also practised measuring accurately in millimetres.
Although we only had a four day week, we managed to fit in an art lesson, this time learning how to produce graduated washes using water colour. This was a development of the work we did last week using pencil crayons and the resulting painted washes will form the backgrounds to our finished pictures of winter trees.
# posted by Mr Jennings : 8:31 pm
