MrJennings

This week, we have begun new units of work in both English and maths.

In English, we have started thinking about writing good non-fiction paragraphs.We have used the context of our geography work on rivers to do this so, having researched information about different major world rivers (using books and the internet) and made notes of the important information we found, we had a go at writing a paragraph about the River Volga. Having reflected on our writing, we have been working on increasing the variety of sentence structures we used in our writing to avoid starting a large number of them with a noun or pronoun. We started thinking about the use of a clear, simple sentence to be the first sentence of the paragraph to contain the most important idea and tell the reader clearly about what the paragraph is about and having been trying to start subsequent sentences with a verb, an adverb or a connective. Today in English, we again worked on using a variety of sentence structures when writing a paragraph entitled, My Three Wishes.

Our maths work has involved converting between different units of measurement and revising different ways of presenting data - including pictograms and bar charts. We have done some mathematical experiments, crated tally charts to collect the data and then presented it in different ways.

In addition to these lessons, we have had another science lesson (about phases of the moon), another session with the ukulele, two sessions of PE and finished the week with art again - this time painting water-colour washes.