Friday, April 28, 2017
24th to 28th April
In English, this week, we have started to think again about writing well-structured stories. Our focus is in developing both our characters and the setting in the different parts of the story. We began by studying a short story and identifying all the places where the author developed the setting by telling the reader more detail about it or showed the impact of it on the characters. This helped us to become aware of how an author will build-up the reader's impression of setting throughout a story, not just at one point. We did a similar exercise with a character. After this, we started to write our own stories, with a simple "lost and found" plot, in which we are trying to develop both setting and character.
Our maths activities have further developed our understanding of decimal numbers and we have also moved on to more work on addition and subtraction. These activities have helped us think about when it is sensible to use mental methods and when to use written methods of calculation.
We spent some time on our history work this week, After learning more about the role of merchant traders in later Saxon times, we thought about their impact on an area when they visited only one of several villages in an area. Using this knowledge, we were able to write explanations of why Nottingham was the settlement in our area which grew into a town, rather than staying a village.
In addition to this, we had two sessions of PE, started some ICT work on 3D graphics and learned some more about cam mechanisms in technology.
# posted by Mr Jennings : 5:50 pm
