An Experimental Week

We have had a week of experiments in Class 5 this week.

In English we have concluded our unit on formal and informal writing. We have been experimenting with using different language, relative clauses and making our writing personal and impersonal to show the differences in our writing styles. A few of us have also practised creating a link between the start and the end of our letters.

In Maths we have moved on from multiplication and we are revising the different strategies to help us with division. Soon we will be attempting a lot of reasoning and problem solving questions where all of these strategies will need to be put to good use!

We concluded the geography element of our theme work by further investigating some of the extreme weather that can be experience in the USA (although not snow storms - which would have been far more topical this week!). We conducted an experiment to show the funnel movements of tornadoes. We also looked at how architects in California have developed 'earthquake-proof' skyscrapers, and with cocktail sticks, mini-marshmallows and lots of jelly, had a chance to construct and test our own!

Our use of random ingredients moved on into year 6 science, where we learnt about the components of blood. We decorated biscuits using different tasty toppings to represent the plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets, and were all able to describe the function of each.

We had some fantastic creative homework based on the USA this week, some of which we have been able to display in our classroom (and a lot of homework we have also enjoyed munching on this week too!)

Don't forget to log on to your active-learn accounts and complete the work assigned to you online too - I will be assigning more soon and you don't want to fall behind!

Finally next week we will start our blog with a link school in Florida that Mr Wainwright has organised for us. Start having a think about the type of questions that you would like to ask a class of American pupils about what life is like in their country!


Until next week,

Miss Vidler