Week Beginning 6.06.16

Welcome back to the final half term of the academic year. This week has been packed with new topics and some interesting and unusual lessons...

On Wednesday, we had a visit from a talented skateboarder who popped in to give us a few tips and teach us some new skills. We donned our protective pads and helmets and were away attempting new tricks. At first it was a little scary but it wasn't long before we were jumping up onto the deck and lifting the board to do turns. We all decided it was something we would love to do again.

Literacy 

We used our new skateboarding knowledge to design our own skateboards and use our persuasive writing skills to write an advert to sell them. This was a great start to our new literacy topic where over the next few weeks we will be extending our persuasive writing  knowledge; focusing on letters of complaint and debates.

We have also been looking at using apostrophes for omission and possession. In spelling, we have been looking at words that are spelt with 'ch' but sounded with 'c' such as; chemist, character and school.

Maths

We have been tackling division in maths, scaling down recipes and measurements by multiples of four by halving and halving again. We have also been using number lines to find short cuts when dividing numbers outside the times tables.

Geography

The focus in our geography sessions has shifted slightly as we look at the human impact on the rain forest. We started these sessions by learning about some of the indigenous tribes that live in the Amazon rain forest; the Kayapo, Tupi, Panara and Korubo. We enjoyed a high energy information dash to find out about their different cultures, practices and beliefs and presented our findings to the rest of the class.

D.T

We finished off the week by starting our new D.T project; making a healthy warm snack. This half term we will be designing our own version of the traditional Spanish omelette. Of course we had to do some taste testing to investigate new some new flavours. We tried traditional Spanish omelette, chorizo, roasted peppers, sun-dried tomatoes and Spanish Manchego cheese.

The results were mixed but we all found something new that we enjoyed.