Sunday, March 01, 2015
24th to 27th February
Following our half-term break, we started a new unit of work this week which is designed to help us develop our fiction writing skills. Our task is to write a story about a character with a strong and clear personality, developing this through the build-up and events of the story to a climax which is then resolved in an interesting way. Our main work this week has concentrated on planning stories and we have done this by analysing the plot development of different stories written for children. We then started planning our own stories.
Our learning in maths has been about decimals and fractions. We have been adding decimal numbers mentally (including numbers with two decimal places) and, later in the week, we have been developing our understanding of equivalent fractions, extending this to improper fractions and mixed numbers.
Although this was a "short" week, following an INSET day for the teachers on Monday, we did some science, producing a presentation about the life-cycle of a butterfly and some RE, learning about symbolism in Hindu art before producing our own artistic interpretations of Ganesha.
Our learning in maths has been about decimals and fractions. We have been adding decimal numbers mentally (including numbers with two decimal places) and, later in the week, we have been developing our understanding of equivalent fractions, extending this to improper fractions and mixed numbers.
Although this was a "short" week, following an INSET day for the teachers on Monday, we did some science, producing a presentation about the life-cycle of a butterfly and some RE, learning about symbolism in Hindu art before producing our own artistic interpretations of Ganesha.
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