We had another busy week, continuing our WWII topic, having our last P.E session till the new year at Eastwood and helping out at the present room.
Here’s some photos from our WWII drama activity:
As always, if anyone asks not to have a photo on the blog I don’t post them.
Maths
In maths this week we have been doing a variety of stuff including angles and data handling. For data handling we searched up information of a thing you wanted to do and made it into a line graph.
Literacy
In literacy we have been looking at WW2 comprehension things. In writing we made a letter pretending we were an evacuee.
IDL
For our topic, we had on the first day made blitzkrieg paintings (also known as lightning war) and added buildings flashlights and other World War 2 related items.
Mr. Flood hung up photos of evacuees and we had to go round with a worksheet where we wrote what was happening. Then we learnt more about evacuees’ experience.
We’ve really been getting into our WWII topic this week. So far we’ve looked at graphs related to WWII, read an account of the evacuation, read an extract of Anne Frank’s diary, created time lines, learnt about the leaders, made propaganda posters and more. Below are some photos of us researching the Blitz and creating some artwork inspired by it:
As always only those children who wanted to be are featured on the blog.
This week we tried out some new maths games to build numeracy and problem solving skills. These will be great to play as independent tasks this year.
This week we finished our apprentice topic. For our final task we invented a product, created a pitch and filmed an advert to promote it.
We also finished off bikeability. Well done to all that took part. Certificates went home today with information about areas to work on.
This week we took part in our first road session of bikeability. We learnt to start and stop safely, to turn left and right and to do U-turns. We had to think about making observations and giving clear signals.
We’ve had a busy week of P.E at Eastwood, bikeability, farming simulator and selling biscuits for our Apprentice task.
With Mr Atkinson we planted beans. We’re getting ready for an experiment about how they grow.
We took part in the Climate Ready Classroom online workshop. We learnt about climate change, biodiversity and what we can do to help. We a made a web to show the links in our ecosystem.
In P.E we went to the P5 class and led fitness sessions for them.
In Literacy we watched a video called Alma and discussed it and looked at how the director had created atmosphere.
We read a book called the maths curse then created our own versions.
We also learnt about prime numbers from a book called Bean 13 for maths week.
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In Maths we looked at percentages and fractions. We worked on equivalent fractions and some of us tried adding fractions.
In Literacy we read an extract from Matilda and we used STEAL to analyse the character. WE thought about speech, thoughts, effect on others, actions and looks to explore the characters.
In Writing we used STEAL characterisation to create a witch, werewolf or a vampire. We used show not tell and STEAL.
In our Apprentice topic we worked in teams to design a new chocolate bar wrapper, logo and slogan. We had to follow the design brief we received in an email.
In P.E we started a league for our brand new made up game “sportsball”. In the gym hall we led other groups in a fitness routine.
With Mr Atkinson in Science we looked at true or false statements about fertiliser and completed some comprehension about fertilisers.
Mrs Barnes was in class on Monday. We learnt about our brains and how they can make us freeze, fight or flee.
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Maths
This week in maths we have been learning about percentages. We had to find percentages of different amounts.
P.E
In P.E this week we have been working on fitness. We made fitness routines in groups and then practised them.
Writing
This week we started creative writing about characters. We had to write four paragraphs about different characters’ emotions, showing how they felt through their actions.
Literacy
This week in literacy we had to write a prediction about what we think will happen next in our books.
STEM
In STEM this week with Mr Atkinson we learnt about fertilisation and we had to complete a comprehension sheet in our jotters. We also started making a fact file about different plants around the world.
I.D.L
This week we started a new topic about business. We have been split into teams to form our own companies. We started by a team building challenge to draw a house without touching your teammates paper as we will have to work well in a team.
Blog this week by Hadia and Sara
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