Friday, October 24, 2014
20th to 24th October
We have finished our English unit of work on writing good paragraphs, reviewing the paragraphs we wrote about some famous rivers of the world and writing another new paragraph about our imaginary life as a lion in a safari park or as a pupil at Hogwarts. We finished by again having an exercise in which we wrote the same ideas but constructing the sentences in different ways.
Our maths has been concerned with multiplication and place value (using our times tables and place value knowledge to find answers to sums like 400x7000) and then multiples and factors of numbers. On Thursday we had a review test covering everything we have been learning this half-term and today we went through this together, checking what we got wrong and extending the challenge in areas we got completely correct.
We did some map work in geography marking the major rivers of the UK on an outline map and then doing this for some important European rivers. Earlier in the week we had used the internet to research facts about important rivers and compare information found with that on different websites and in published books. We also related the location of some of the rivers to important cities and, as a challenge and to increase our familiarity with the geography of our own country, we tried to copy (freehand) the outline of the British Isles.
On Wednesday, we did our Harvest presentation in our special assembly to which parents/carers were welcome. We presented the poem "Autumn" by John Clare (written at the end of the nineteenth century) then read our own poem made up of expanded noun phrases and describing aspects of our wonderful world experienced through each of our five senses.
We have now started our half term holiday.
Our maths has been concerned with multiplication and place value (using our times tables and place value knowledge to find answers to sums like 400x7000) and then multiples and factors of numbers. On Thursday we had a review test covering everything we have been learning this half-term and today we went through this together, checking what we got wrong and extending the challenge in areas we got completely correct.
We did some map work in geography marking the major rivers of the UK on an outline map and then doing this for some important European rivers. Earlier in the week we had used the internet to research facts about important rivers and compare information found with that on different websites and in published books. We also related the location of some of the rivers to important cities and, as a challenge and to increase our familiarity with the geography of our own country, we tried to copy (freehand) the outline of the British Isles.
On Wednesday, we did our Harvest presentation in our special assembly to which parents/carers were welcome. We presented the poem "Autumn" by John Clare (written at the end of the nineteenth century) then read our own poem made up of expanded noun phrases and describing aspects of our wonderful world experienced through each of our five senses.
We have now started our half term holiday.
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