MrJennings

On Monday we concluded our English unit of work on description writing, focusing on writing comparisons. We then moved on to a unit about the poem, The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. We are studying this as an example of a narrative poem and, after reading it through twice and making sure that we understood the vocabulary with a dictionary exercise, we discussed the plot of the story and created a timeline of the events. We have also analysed the verse and rhyme structure of the poem.

In maths this week, we have been thinking about measurements of weight: using standard weights for balancing objects; converting measurements including fractions of kilograms; reading scales correctly and rounding weights written in decimal form. Now we have moved on to some data handling work, revising ideas about the mode of a set of data.

We had an afternoon of science on Wednesday when we planned and carried out an experiment to find out and explore the effect on the size of the shadow when an object was moved closer to and further away from a light source.

On Thursday, we had a special day when everyone in the school was thinking about myths and legends from different cultures and making responses through art. Different children had different activities ranging from collage and papier-mâché to making puppets and sculpture.

In addition to this, we had ICT, continuing our Scratch programming, a Keeping Healthy science session, PE and some play reading.