MrJennings

We have continued our work in English thinking about aspects of story writing. This week, we have focused on different styles of paragraphs - descriptive paragraphs, speech paragraphs and action paragraphs. We have tried to write opening paragraphs for stories using these different styles, looking at examples for the story of Cinderella before writing our own openings for a story about Humpty Dumpty and then one about Jack and Jill.

In maths, we have been working on our understanding of decimal numbers. This has included understanding place value of tenths and hundredths, reading decimal numbers correctly, ordering them and rounding them to the nearest tenth and the nearest whole number. At the end of the week we moved on to start working on mental addition and subtraction strategies.

We have spent a good amount of time on our geography topic this week. We have learned more about forestry and how the provision of more forests affects the landscape and some different groups of people. We have also learned about the activities of hill farmers throughout the year on Lakeland farms. After finding out about some of the changes that have occurred over the last sixty years in numbers of farm workers and numbers of animals in the area, we thought about the impact of this on the landscape.

At the end of the day on Friday, we had a look at the script for our Year 5 harvest presentation which we will be doing next week.