Term 6 Week 5

This week in our English learning we have been looking at different types of poetry. We have looked at lots of poetry performances, explored a range of different types of poetry including narrative poems which we used to practice some of our comprehension skills. 

In Maths, Year 3 understood the new terms parallel and perpendicular and identified these sets of lines in 2D shapes. We described 2D shapes by their number of sides, vertices and how many sets of parallel or perpendicular lines they have. We also identified if they had any lines of symmetry and if these were vertical or horizontal. We then identified polygons and created these using Geoboards. Finally, we finished the week describing and creating 3D shapes, identifying how many vertices, faces and edges they have. Year 4 have been looking at statistics and data handling this week. We started the week looking at how we can use graphs, tables and tallies to represent and compare data, and how can they can be used to answer comparison questions. We then moved on to looking at bar graphs and line graphs and how we can collect data and construct our own graphs, and interpret time graphs.

In History we looked at the Ancient cities of Sparta and Athens and how they were ruled completely differently. We talked about which city we would want to live in and how it is similar and different to life today. In Music we learnt to play two different chords on the ukulele and played this to the beat of the song we have been learning. In computing we used all of the skills we have been learning in our stop motion unit to create our own mini movies. 

We hope you have a lovely weekend, 

Mr Saunders, Mrs Hendry and Miss Parkes.