Friday, May 04, 2012
30th April to 4th May
We have continued with our work on persuasive writing this week by planning and writing complete texts to argue a particular case. We have practised planning the writing by generating lots of ideas and organising them under a few main headings and have also worked on improving the quality of our introductory and concluding paragraphs.
As well as continuing our focus on mental maths skills, our main mathematics work has been about graphs, and line graphs in particular. We have drawn graphs and answered questions about them. We have also considered the "stories" that a graph can tell, trying to think of different plausible explanations for (for example) changes in gradient.
We had a special RE afternoon on Wednesday when we learned about the 5Ks of Sikhism. We used expert groups to explore objects representing the 5Ks, drawing and thinking of questions we might ask about them before reporting back to our home groups. We then learned about the religious significance of the 5Ks using a video and text and sorted a series of statements to match them to the appropriate object.
In ICT we continued our computer programming work using Scratch. This week we tried to create a car race game including cursor control of the car and a timer. Some of us managed to include a score feature where points were lost every time the car left the course.
As well as continuing our focus on mental maths skills, our main mathematics work has been about graphs, and line graphs in particular. We have drawn graphs and answered questions about them. We have also considered the "stories" that a graph can tell, trying to think of different plausible explanations for (for example) changes in gradient.
We had a special RE afternoon on Wednesday when we learned about the 5Ks of Sikhism. We used expert groups to explore objects representing the 5Ks, drawing and thinking of questions we might ask about them before reporting back to our home groups. We then learned about the religious significance of the 5Ks using a video and text and sorted a series of statements to match them to the appropriate object.
In ICT we continued our computer programming work using Scratch. This week we tried to create a car race game including cursor control of the car and a timer. Some of us managed to include a score feature where points were lost every time the car left the course.
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