MrJennings

In this first, short, week of term we have concentrated on some grammar work in our English. We did some activities about adjectives intended to help encourage use of a wider range of types of adjective in descriptive sections of written work. (That is to broaden the focus from obvious features of objects such as colour and size.)

Our maths has mainly been about decimal fractions. We have tried activities to develop understanding of place value of decimals (tenths, hundredths and thousandths), compared and ordered them. We have also done some number-line activities.

We did some practical work in science, using filter paper and filter funnels to separate tea from salt after mixing the mixture in water and, in history, started to think about the impact of merchant traders on the development of towns in later Saxon England. This afternoon, we began our Design and Technology project on Automata by looking at films of some automata and discussing them before drawing some examples, labeling components, describing movement and writing evaluations.