Friday, October 19, 2012
15th to 19th October
In English this week, we have completed our work on writing non-fiction paragraphs for a non-chronological report about the stages in the "life" of a river. We made notes and wrote about the upper course of a river with a partner and, today, we finished writing a paragraph about the lower course of a river independently.
In maths, we spent some time following up ideas that the recent test suggested were less well remembered and have learned about factors, multiples and common multiples before moving on to begin thinking about the properties of 3D shapes. In these activities we have used Carroll diagrams and Venn diagrams to present and investigate numbers and shape properties.
We had a science focus for much of our work this week. We did some practical work to demonstrate the water cycle, focussing on condensation and the role of heating and cooling in the cycle. We also spent time thinking about what we know about solids, liquids and gases and learning how scientists would describe these.
We have also undertaken a series of activities developing exploration and problem solving skills. We did some adventurous, problem-solving activities in PE, read an adventure-book story (where you have to make choices about which page you turn to next and mapping our choices so that we could later explore alternatives) and trying an art investigation.
We have now begun our autumn half-term holiday.
In maths, we spent some time following up ideas that the recent test suggested were less well remembered and have learned about factors, multiples and common multiples before moving on to begin thinking about the properties of 3D shapes. In these activities we have used Carroll diagrams and Venn diagrams to present and investigate numbers and shape properties.
We had a science focus for much of our work this week. We did some practical work to demonstrate the water cycle, focussing on condensation and the role of heating and cooling in the cycle. We also spent time thinking about what we know about solids, liquids and gases and learning how scientists would describe these.
We have also undertaken a series of activities developing exploration and problem solving skills. We did some adventurous, problem-solving activities in PE, read an adventure-book story (where you have to make choices about which page you turn to next and mapping our choices so that we could later explore alternatives) and trying an art investigation.
We have now begun our autumn half-term holiday.
# posted by Mr Jennings : 9:18 pm
