Friday, March 27, 2015
23rd to 27th March
We have continued our work on descriptive writing this week by extending it in two ways. First, we explored the writing of comparisons - describing two similar things and, second, by thinking about about descriptive passages in fiction writing. In this situation, we may (as authors) be trying to build tension and suspense by not giving the reader a complete overview of the object, place or person at the outset of the piece.
Our maths has involved practising computation of multiplication and division sums, reading and plotting coordinates and calculating perimeters and areas of rectangles. Our science work this week has also involved a lot of maths in that the focus of the learning has been concerned with drawing and interpreting graphs. We finished creating scatter-grams which related length of the gestation period of different animals with their average body weight to investigate whether or not their is a relationship between these measures. Then we looked at growth charts for human babies distributed to health workers by the government. (We compared the new charts with the old ones which were based on the growth of formula-fed babies and predicted weights of different sized babies after 12, 32 and 52 weeks.) Finally we created line graphs to compare the average growth rate of boys and girls up to eighteen years of age.
In addition to our RE and PE sessions, we enjoyed watching our Y3&4 Easter production this week and finished the week by starting to make bridge structures using paper and card.
Our maths has involved practising computation of multiplication and division sums, reading and plotting coordinates and calculating perimeters and areas of rectangles. Our science work this week has also involved a lot of maths in that the focus of the learning has been concerned with drawing and interpreting graphs. We finished creating scatter-grams which related length of the gestation period of different animals with their average body weight to investigate whether or not their is a relationship between these measures. Then we looked at growth charts for human babies distributed to health workers by the government. (We compared the new charts with the old ones which were based on the growth of formula-fed babies and predicted weights of different sized babies after 12, 32 and 52 weeks.) Finally we created line graphs to compare the average growth rate of boys and girls up to eighteen years of age.
In addition to our RE and PE sessions, we enjoyed watching our Y3&4 Easter production this week and finished the week by starting to make bridge structures using paper and card.
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