Friday, October 18, 2013
14th to 18th October
In English this week, having completed our writing about the life of a river, linking with our geography topic, we have done some comprehension activities. The first of these was based on an extract from the children's book The Shrinking of Treehorn, with our focus being on giving full, detailed answers with explanation when possible and appropriate. During the remainder of the week, we based our comprehension on comic-book style pages about the work of the Severn-Trent Water Authority. This also linked to our Geography topic and helped us understand the role and work of the authority as well as practice our English skills in answering questions requiring explanation, extrapolation and converting information into different forms. One of our PE lessons this week also connected with our geography as our task was to create a sequence of gymnastic movements to represent the life of a river. This involved starting with fast movements, including quick rolls and tumbling motions moving into slower movement with twists and turns and ending in wide, slowly formed shapes.
We addressed some issues which many had with written addition and subtraction calculations at the beginning of the week and kept up with practice on our mental addition and subtraction as we moved on the thinking about multiplication and using and applying our understanding of multiples.
We had an RE lesson (thinking about Christian and Islamic teachings about giving and use of money), our last lesson of our science unit about Earth in Space (as part of which we did a review test) and we also did some more painting, again creating a background using a graduated wash and then using thicker paint to suggest summer trees.
We had a special time today where everyone had a chance to choose an activity to do in a lesson, in recognition of effort and good behaviour this term, and we finished the week (and our half term) by starting to make the pieces for our weaving frames which we will use in our design technology project next term.
School is currently on its autumn half-term holiday.
We addressed some issues which many had with written addition and subtraction calculations at the beginning of the week and kept up with practice on our mental addition and subtraction as we moved on the thinking about multiplication and using and applying our understanding of multiples.
We had an RE lesson (thinking about Christian and Islamic teachings about giving and use of money), our last lesson of our science unit about Earth in Space (as part of which we did a review test) and we also did some more painting, again creating a background using a graduated wash and then using thicker paint to suggest summer trees.
We had a special time today where everyone had a chance to choose an activity to do in a lesson, in recognition of effort and good behaviour this term, and we finished the week (and our half term) by starting to make the pieces for our weaving frames which we will use in our design technology project next term.
School is currently on its autumn half-term holiday.
# posted by Mr Jennings : 8:33 pm
