MrJennings

We have continued our English work on writing well-structured stories. We have written openings for our stories and then moved on to writing an episode of "build-up". We are trying to ensure that, in addition to using good language, we build up the readers ideas about the character's personality and their ideas about the setting.

In maths, our main work has been concerned with learning how to identify equivalent fractions, relating fractions (tenths and hundredths mainly) to their decimal equivalents and an introduction to percentages.

Finishing our weaving frames was the focus of our technology work this week. We glued the pieces of wood together using the cardboard triangle reinforcements after sawing shallow notches in the two short lengths. (These notches are intended to help space the warp threads.) In science, we wrote reports of the two experiments we did last week about friction and also created graphs to present the data.

We finished the week with singing, which began our preparations for our Year 5 & 6 Christmas production.