MATHS
We have been going over and practicing our times tables up to 12 and have learnt a new method called dotting. Here is an example of the eight times tables.
88 11x
1x 2x 24 64
16 8 4x 9x 80
3x 32 6x 40 12x
7x 5x 48 72
56 8x 10x 96
Dotting is for increasing the speed of your times tables.
How to do it: you randomly point at the numbers and say the answer, if it was an answer you say how many times that number goes into 8.
Another thing that we have been doing is an investigation:
Prove that 6×3 is 18 which is the same as 3×6 is 18 using resources
⃝⃝⃝⃝⃝⃝ =3×6=18
⃝⃝⃝⃝⃝⃝
⃝⃝⃝⃝⃝⃝
=6×3=18
English / Grammar
Sentence diagramming
- Fish might swim.
| Subject Fish |
(verb phrase) might swim |
| Key | |
| Fish might swim | – sentence |
| Fish | – subject |
| Might | – helping verb |
| Swim | – main verb |
Computers
In computers we are doing Kodu and e-safety films.
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On Kodu we watched a tutorial and we made our own worlds and played the readymade games.
We thought of some ideas for some films that we will make:
Stop frame animation
Acting scenes out
Drawing and then videoing it
Spellings
Environment – Ron works for the environment
Government – Go Vern in the government
Grotesque – Grote- sque
Picturesque – picture- sque
Necessary – it is necessary to have one collar and two sleeves
Committee – Com and Mit have tee
World War 1
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In world war one the soldiers had to drink tea and eat dog food!
People pooped in the trenches and then accidentally stepped in it.
The stench of dead people was awful.
People buried dead bodies on the bottom and sides of trenches.
People had to have their legs and feet amputated because they had trench foot which rots their feet.
Science
In science we have been looking at the circulation system and the heart.
We have been learning about arteries, veins and the 4 chambers of the heart and how the blood circulates around the body.
