Twice a week we take part in Literature circles. We decide how much we are going to read and decide a task to complete for next time. We also look and discuss the tasks that others in the group have done. It is important that we all read what we have decided and complete the task for the next time the group meets.
This task was to create an alternative book cover.
This task was to design a poster advertising the book.
Every Monday morning we do a Team Games Tournament. We do sums where we try and get points for our table, like times-tables, adding two digit numbers and subtracting two digit numbers. We work in a different group and take turns to answer questions. Each question we get right is one point. Each week we try and get a better score for our home table.
We had to choose a noun, verb, adjective, adverb or pronoun and stick it on the head of our partner. By using good questions, our partner had to guess what was written on our head. It was good fun – and we learned a bit about different types of words too.
We had this problem to do in class today –
“You need six drinking straws the same length. Cut two of them in half. You now have eight straws, four long and four short. Arrange the straws to make 3 squares all the same size”
We worked in pairs to try and solve the problem – it wasn’t easy but most people managed to find a solution.
You could try this problem at home – can you see if you can solve it by having no straws sticking out the side this time?
During maths today we had to discuss cartoons about maths. It really made us think hard about what our understanding was. It was also quite fun. What do you think?
We have been including mindmaps in our learning logs, showing everything that we have learned during the week. We looked at some examples from Tony Buzan and then tried to create mind maps that were similiar. They should help us to think about and reflect on how much we have learned.
We were working with P6 to think about the different ways that we learn. We had to work in mixed groups to sort out cards. The cards had different activities on them and we discussed if we liked the activity or not. We found out that our brains work differently and that we learn in different ways – we can be auditory, visual or kinaesethetic learners.
In maths today we played a game of ‘Guess my Number’. We had a large number (up to hundreds of billions) stuck on our back and we had to guess the number by asking other people questions that they could answer only yes or no to. E.g. is the hundreds of millions digit more or less than five? Is the tens of thousands number odd or even etc. We had a lot of fun and in the end everyone managed to work out their complete number.
We watched a short film called ‘Otherwise’ by Anders Artig. It was a film which had a deeper meaning about prejudice. Through watching the film we learned about 6 codes that will help us analyse films – Colour, Camera, Character, Sound, Story, Setting.
