Working hard before our long weekend

Week beginning 12/5/14

MATHS
This week in maths we started learning about data handling. We are finding out about frequency tables. In these charts you use tally marks, tally marks are in groups of 5 so it’s easy to count. We made our own tables. It was fun to see what people like. We got out I pads and searched parts of a bar graph.

LITERACY
In literacy we have been learning about poems and the different types of poems you can get like acrostic, rhyming, riddles and some that end or start the same. Today we will write our own Cinquin poems. We did a book review on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We wrote about what we liked, what it was about, and things we didn’t like, favourite part and a diagram of your favourite part. We did a piece of writing on our topic about a magic castle.

PE
In PE we were practicing our tennis skills in stations. The first station was under arm throw, then second station was keepy uppy with a tennis racquet and a ball, then the third station was bounce catch to a partner

TOPIC
We got the I pads for our topic and we were working in our co-operative learning groups to make our fact books. We are filling in pages and doing some research on some magical creatures and castles. We are allowed to choose the creatures that we research so each fact book will be different.

Week beginning 19/5/14

TOPIC
In topic we are still working on our fact books and they are coming on great! A spirit was a human that died and is now a ghost. The kraken is supposed to be a giant squid. One group learned that a unicorn horn can be used for medicine. The Lorax lives with the trees.

MATHS
In maths we have been learning about data handling. We are looking at picto-graphs and bar charts. A picto-graph is when you use pictures for tally marks and a bar graph is lines. We made our own picto-charts and found out the results. We are learning how to read the information from graphs too.

RE
In RE we have been learning about Islamic Food Laws and Kosher Food. We know that kosher food is allowed food and Treyfah is not. We know that to make a food Kosher it has to have split hooves and chew the cud if it is a land animal and if it lives in the sea it has to have scales, fins and gills. Treyfah foods include pigs, camels, birds of prey and rabbits. It is a rule to never eat dairy with meat. They normally wait around 3-6 hours before eating a dairy product after eating meat.

PE

In PE we have been learning about tennis, we have been trying to do some different passes and throws. We have done keepie ups, working on our own and with partners. We have been working on passing to our partners without stopping and controlling how far we pass the ball during tennis.