Sunday, March 18, 2012
12th to 16th March
Our work in maths, this week, has been concerned with developing ideas about number. This has involved activities with negative numbers, including sequencing numbers and calculating differences. We have also revisited doubling and halving and using complements (complements to 10, 100 and 1000).
We have brought our work on Greek myths and legends to an end by reading some further myths and completing some comprehension and sequencing activities. We have also made games based on the story of the Odyssey. Our board games include lots of chance cards and we made these by thinking of the events in the story and whether each of these brought good fortune or bad fortune for Odysseus. We then wrote each event on a chance card together with an action (miss a go; have another turn; go back three spaces; go forward four steps) appropriate to the event, reflecting the effect it had on Odysseus' goal of retuning to his wife and son in Ithaca.
The focus of our learning about ancient Greece has been the polis or city-state. We have learned about the features of the polis and compared some features (such as the agora) with their modern equivalents.
Most of us finished our "Wonderful World" music videos in time to show our parents at one of our Parents' Evenings which took place this week and we had our French and PE sessions as usual.
To finish the week, we used K'NEX to investigate stability in structures. We made sets of models which all had to be the same except to legs. Some sets had to have the same number of legs but different length legs, the other sets had to have the same sized legs, but different numbers of legs. When we tested the models, we found out that the shorter the legs, the more stable the models were. We also found out that three-legged models were particularly stable.
We have brought our work on Greek myths and legends to an end by reading some further myths and completing some comprehension and sequencing activities. We have also made games based on the story of the Odyssey. Our board games include lots of chance cards and we made these by thinking of the events in the story and whether each of these brought good fortune or bad fortune for Odysseus. We then wrote each event on a chance card together with an action (miss a go; have another turn; go back three spaces; go forward four steps) appropriate to the event, reflecting the effect it had on Odysseus' goal of retuning to his wife and son in Ithaca.
The focus of our learning about ancient Greece has been the polis or city-state. We have learned about the features of the polis and compared some features (such as the agora) with their modern equivalents.
Most of us finished our "Wonderful World" music videos in time to show our parents at one of our Parents' Evenings which took place this week and we had our French and PE sessions as usual.
To finish the week, we used K'NEX to investigate stability in structures. We made sets of models which all had to be the same except to legs. Some sets had to have the same number of legs but different length legs, the other sets had to have the same sized legs, but different numbers of legs. When we tested the models, we found out that the shorter the legs, the more stable the models were. We also found out that three-legged models were particularly stable.
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