MrJennings

In English this week, we began a unit of work on fiction writing. We have focused on planning stories by analysing the plot of some short children's stories (including Mr. Men stories). Towards the end of the week we tried planning our own stories, including creating different climax/resolution scenarios for stories about the same characters.

After concluding our unit of work about shape by thinking about the properties of 2D shapes, we have started a new maths unit to help develop our understanding of fractions. Our main thinking has been about equivalent fractions and we have made fraction walls, created "fraction families" and noted the relationships between numerator and denominator to help us understand.

In our Tuesday science session, we thought about air. We investigated the amount of air in a litre of sand and a litre of gravel and started to think about a way to determine if air has a weight.

We had an extended DT session on Friday when we completed our weaving frames. We had to lightly saw little notches in the end pieces of wood to guide and hold the warp threads, then we had to lay out the four pieces of wood for the frame and glue the card triangles to secure the corners of the frame.