Friday, May 17, 2013
13th to 17th May
Our maths work this week has concentrated on addition and subtraction computation and a little more work on line graphs. This has also been our "end of year" test week for English.
In geography we have studied the activities on a Lake District hill farm through the year and learned about the changes that have taken place in the environment as a result of the reduction in number of farm worker in the area during the last fifty years. We have also thought about the economics of farming by discussing the sources of income and expenditure for a farmer.
In our history work about ancient Greece, we have been thinking about the Greek alphabet and language and how our own alphabet has been influenced by this. We identified the letter shapes that have come to us from Greek and which ones have "kept" their sounds. We also "translated" some words from their Greek spellings to our alphabet and looked at some English words (like telephone) which have been created from elements originating in Greek.
We did some orienteering in PE this week and this afternoon, in art, we continued our containers topic by making our pots from clay.
Next week is arts week in school.
In geography we have studied the activities on a Lake District hill farm through the year and learned about the changes that have taken place in the environment as a result of the reduction in number of farm worker in the area during the last fifty years. We have also thought about the economics of farming by discussing the sources of income and expenditure for a farmer.
In our history work about ancient Greece, we have been thinking about the Greek alphabet and language and how our own alphabet has been influenced by this. We identified the letter shapes that have come to us from Greek and which ones have "kept" their sounds. We also "translated" some words from their Greek spellings to our alphabet and looked at some English words (like telephone) which have been created from elements originating in Greek.
We did some orienteering in PE this week and this afternoon, in art, we continued our containers topic by making our pots from clay.
Next week is arts week in school.
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