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We have concluded our English unit of work this week, focussing on writing comparisons. We have again used pictures of flanimals as the subject of our writing and developed the work by writing in the form of letters (responding to letters requesting information about named flanimals).

Our main maths work has been about data and graphs. We have collected data in maths experiments, drawn bar charts, bar line charts and line graphs to represent data we collected or were given and have interpreted graphs to explain what different graphs have shown. We have also been reminded about the meaning of the term mode  in relation to a set of data.

Forestry has been the area of our Lake District study this week. We have learned about how different species of trees grow best at particular altitudes, about the "tree line" and why trees normally grow better in valleys and sheltered areas rather than exposed sites. We also found about about the differences in species diversity between deciduous and coniferous forests in this country and the different jobs in the forestry industry. After this we did two problem solving exercises using the knowledge we had developed.

We finished the week with some art, starting some Aboriginal-style "dot" paintings to symbolise a journey.