MrJennings

In English this week, we have worked to conclude our unit on report writing, making notes about the middle and lower course of rivers from video and text books and then drafting paragraphs about these. In addition, we continued our series of comprehension activities, thinking more about scanning for information and interpreting questions carefully. At the end of the week we started a new unit of work by looking at the poem The Highwayman  by Alfred Noyes.

It was test week for us in maths but, in addition, we did some further work on data handling before activities on shape involving reflection, rotation and translation.

One of our main activities this week was planning and carrying out an investigation into factors which may affect the speed of dissolving. We designed fair tests, making sure that we identified many factors that should be controlled, and then carried out the tests. We conducted experiments to find out whether these things affected the speed of dissolving: the amount of salt; the temperature of the water, the amount of stirring and the amount of shaking.

In art, we learned about the kinds of paintings created by Australian Aboriginal peoples, thinking about their stick paintings, the palette of colours used and the symbolic patterns and shapes used in some of those paintings.