Friday, November 20, 2015
16th to 20th November
Our maths learning this year has continued our focus on fractions and decimals, also extending our understanding to percentages. We worked on fractions and decimals, including hundredths and thousandths before moving on to calculating with fractions. We started with unit factions (like finding 1/5 of 120) before calculating with non-unit fractions (so, finding 3/5 of 120) and then finding 60% of 120.
In English, we completed a comprehension activity on Monday. We wrote some more of our Mr. Men stories before typing them up, so far, on the computer. To develop our proofreading skills, we took a passage from Mac's Short Adventure which had been printed without punctuation and made as many corrections as we could before checking this together as a class. Today, we thought about the use of connectives.
Investigating parachutes was our main science activity this week. We made different-sized cones to act as parachutes (making sure that we used the same material and weight of material for each) and dropped them each from the same height. We compared the results we found when measuring the time it took each one to fall and drew conclusions about how this was affected by the size of the parachute. We created graphs to present the results and started writing up the experiment.
In addition, in Design & Technology we threaded up our weaving frames and began weaving, we had our weekly session of Spanish and enjoyed a "taster session" of archery.
In English, we completed a comprehension activity on Monday. We wrote some more of our Mr. Men stories before typing them up, so far, on the computer. To develop our proofreading skills, we took a passage from Mac's Short Adventure which had been printed without punctuation and made as many corrections as we could before checking this together as a class. Today, we thought about the use of connectives.
Investigating parachutes was our main science activity this week. We made different-sized cones to act as parachutes (making sure that we used the same material and weight of material for each) and dropped them each from the same height. We compared the results we found when measuring the time it took each one to fall and drew conclusions about how this was affected by the size of the parachute. We created graphs to present the results and started writing up the experiment.
In addition, in Design & Technology we threaded up our weaving frames and began weaving, we had our weekly session of Spanish and enjoyed a "taster session" of archery.
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