In maths, we have continued building our confidence in working with fractions. So far we have gone over simplifying, ordering, converting mixed and improper fractions as well as beginning to develop our skills in adding and subtracting fractions. We were able to use fraction builders to help us secure our understanding. We also had great fun in early morning work having a go at playing a negative number game, and discussed how adding and subtracting negative numbers affects a number.
In English, we have started looking at the features of detective stories to help us in developing our own. We learnt new vocabulary such as 'red herrings' and 'alibis'. At the end of the week we had a chance to learn a mystery story on each of our tables and act them out in front of the class.
In gymnastics, Mrs Martin has continued to help us develop our gymnastic skills by working on paired balances, here are just a few of the poses we managed to control!
In theme this week, we have nearly reached the end of our crime and punishment topic by looking at the Victorian period. On Monday we had a chance to look at an online database of Victorian prisoners, and learnt how to use the search function to help us scour the 1000s of prisoners to find the culprit of a crime! The website can be found here: http://vcp.e2bn.org/
On Friday Mrs Martin introduced us to what life was like in Victorian prisons. She took on the role of strict prison warden and we recreated some of the boring tasks that prisoners were forced to do. We had a go at unpicking rope, carrying heavy objects around, stepping up on benches as well as walking with our arms outstretched holding ropes - and all in silence! Of course we only had to perform these tasks for a few minutes, it must have been awful for Victorian prisoners to have to do them for hours!
We completed this week with our homework share, and this week it was especially exciting as we had all been friendship ninjas for the week! We finally got to expose the random acts of kindness that we had done for our friends, family and teachers this week. Hopefully some of the values that we learnt by doing this homework will continue long into the future.
Next week we begin assessing how much we have learnt over this term, so we can start celebrating the skills we have managed to develop.
Mrs Crawley
I loved acting the detective story's out in class. In fractions I have been much more confident.ECO
ReplyDeleteI really really enjoyed this leason ECH
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the punishments from the workhouses
ReplyDeleteLM