P6/5 Week starting Monday 10th January
Monday:
Maths – All groups were looking at fractions today; one group were sorting various activities and games into degrees of difficulty. We looked at the forward plan to help us discuss the learning intentions for these activities and decided most them were covered by “to sort and compare fractions”.
Literacy – reading groups have new reading books so we all looked at the skill of prediction.
PE – we all looked at possible activities for the coming term and decided to focus on tennis, rugby and continue football.
To help us with our understanding of vertebrates and invertebrates, and our artistic skills, we drew skeletons.
Tuesday:
Maths: continuing work on fractions in our groups, looking at denominators and numerators.
Literacy: continued work on prediction (the rest of the book). Progressed from making notes to writing this up in sentences (some in paragraphs) into jotters. We also did an extended writing piece – a narrative story of each child’s own choice.
Mrs D STEM activities in the afternoon. Fractions
Wednesday:
Maths – Fractions, with one group focusing on simple fractions of a number, the rest on equivalent fractions. A small group were also able to work on percentages and how they relate to fractions.
Literacy – generating questions (and corresponding answers) about their group reading books, which will feed into a reading comprehension activity. We also peer assessed the narrative writing from the previous day.
In the afternoon we used our drama skills to further our understanding of “Macbeth” and what a medieval battle might have sounded like.
We also continued working on our skeletons. We extended this activity today by getting some people to label the different bones while some people drew examples of other animal’s skeletons.
Thursday
In maths some continued their work on fractions of a whole number, while another group worked on related word problems.
In literacy some were creating questions about the text they were reading, while others had to catch up on their reading.
In the afternoon the class continued their work on “Macbeth” and practised their drawing skills by creating an image of the three witches.
Friday:
Assembly, when LH got the star award for sensibly supporting others.
Maths: how to make a loop game, and using these to practice maths including decimals and fractions.
PE: throwing and catching, relating to racket and ball skills
