Friday, October 11, 2013
7th to 11th October
This has been our harvest week at school so we had a rehearsal on Wednesday morning and our harvest service (to which parents were invited) on Thursday morning. Our class worked with our other Year 5 class to give a presentation about the choices that shoppers have to make when buying food including, for example, deciding whether to buy organic produce, fairtrade products or locally grown goods.
In addition to our harvest work, we have started thinking about the work and impact of tow major international charities - Christian Aid and Islamic Relief. We have been investigating these charities by studying the websites to discover their aims, how they go about achieving these, the countries they work in and how they raise funds to continue their projects.
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 (using two sources of information - text and video) 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.
Our maths focus, after undertaking some mathematical investigations (the results of which were presented in graphs and charts) has been on addition and subtraction calculation. We have been learning and practicing efficient methods of doing mental calculations as well as checking up on our written methods.
We finished the week with some more water colour painting.
In addition to our harvest work, we have started thinking about the work and impact of tow major international charities - Christian Aid and Islamic Relief. We have been investigating these charities by studying the websites to discover their aims, how they go about achieving these, the countries they work in and how they raise funds to continue their projects.
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 (using two sources of information - text and video) 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.
Our maths focus, after undertaking some mathematical investigations (the results of which were presented in graphs and charts) has been on addition and subtraction calculation. We have been learning and practicing efficient methods of doing mental calculations as well as checking up on our written methods.
We finished the week with some more water colour painting.
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