Friday, June 06, 2014
2nd to 6th June
After our half-term break, we started a new unit of work in English. This is based on a study of texts in which the story is set in a culture other than our own. Our main text will be Grandpa Chatterji by Jamila Gavin. We have read the first chapter together and begun to think about some of the cultural features that have influenced the plot and characters. We have also done some grammar work changing the opening of the story from the present tense to the past tense and thinking about the effect of this.
Our maths work has been focused on graphs and charts. The main learning was about line graphs in their various forms including time/distance graphs and conversion graphs. We read graphs to find answer questions and drew graphs to present data. At the end of the week we also did some probability investigations, presenting the results using pictograms and bar line charts.
In geography we turned our attention to thinking about the landscape of the Lake District and tourism. We used the results of two different visitor surveys to explore why the area is so popular with day trippers and holiday-makers and then we used maps and pictures to learn about how large numbers of people can damage the landscape. Our problem-solving exercise for this part of our topic was to draw solutions to some of the problems caused by large numbers of people visiting a well-known and attractive lake with popular viewing points.
On Friday, together with the other Year 5 class, we visited the infant school to meet with the children who will be coming up to our school in September. We broke into groups and each of our groups will be buddies for a group of children moving into Year 3. In the afternoon we did some more on our DT automata project, sawing a support strut for the frame and creating another annotated drawing of an automaton we saw working.
Our maths work has been focused on graphs and charts. The main learning was about line graphs in their various forms including time/distance graphs and conversion graphs. We read graphs to find answer questions and drew graphs to present data. At the end of the week we also did some probability investigations, presenting the results using pictograms and bar line charts.
In geography we turned our attention to thinking about the landscape of the Lake District and tourism. We used the results of two different visitor surveys to explore why the area is so popular with day trippers and holiday-makers and then we used maps and pictures to learn about how large numbers of people can damage the landscape. Our problem-solving exercise for this part of our topic was to draw solutions to some of the problems caused by large numbers of people visiting a well-known and attractive lake with popular viewing points.
On Friday, together with the other Year 5 class, we visited the infant school to meet with the children who will be coming up to our school in September. We broke into groups and each of our groups will be buddies for a group of children moving into Year 3. In the afternoon we did some more on our DT automata project, sawing a support strut for the frame and creating another annotated drawing of an automaton we saw working.
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