We had an excellent few days in Maths this week. We began with work on prime numbers, where we looked at what a prime number was and used counters to prove that numbers were prime. This was followed by using this understanding to prove a number was composite and not prime as well as some work with prime factor trees. We then looked at squared and cubed numbers, making them using small cubes to understand why they are given the names they are. Afterwards, the children needed to convince me that 25 wasn't a cubed number and 30 wasn't a squared number. They did this in a variety of ways; some using cubes, some drawing it and others writing. Finally, they put their multiplication skills to good use by finding out squared and cubed numbers.
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1. Created a First Draft2. Edited Our First Draft using the Editing Stations3. Worked on our final draft4. Finished our books and gave them to Y4 to read!The children have worked so hard on their entries, some have done some work at home as well as during their lunchtimes at school. All these pieces of artwork have now been sent off, so we await the results. Keep your fingers crossed for us! Last week, the children had a lesson on using the DESMOS calculator, this is a program where they are able to plot points on a graph. Today they used the program to create pictures on the theme of 'The World Around Us' as part of a competition from Maths Week England. Although they haven't all finished yet, I was blown away with what they have been able to achieve in such a short time and also with their creativity. Great use of these gems:One of favourite parts of Y6 is Book Club. We have two sessions a week, reading high quality texts in groups of 3 or 4. We try to make it as enjoyable as possible, with the groups taking turns to use the beanbags and cushions and reading by torchlight. It's a time to read purely for pleasure! Three of our groups have almost finished their books. They have new mystery books ready and wrapped up for them to read next! Each week we are given a different focus for Book Talk to discuss what we are reading in our groups. We spend an hour a week in Book Club. Good use of these Learning Gems:In Mandela Class, we took part in Maths Week England in a couple of ways. Trying out puzzles on Wednesday and Thursday during our basic skills time and also trying out the DESMOS program during our computing lesson. Desmos is a program where the children have to input co-ordinates in order to make points on a graph. They are then able to join up these points to make shapes They had lot of fun exploring what they could make! Good use of these learning gems:We continued our work on looking at inherited features by first completing offspring for Mr and Mrs PotatoHead and then creating our own list of instructions for how to make offspring. Then we began looking at adaptations animals have made to suit their environment. We started by looking at the Tube-Lipped Nectar Bat who has a tongue 1 and a half times the length of its body. We measured each other and then created 'tongues' from string 1.5 times our height to show how long our tongues would be if we had adapted to be like the bat! Good use of these learning gems:Today we began to look at common factors. To start with we had to check we knew the difference between factors and multiples, so we used the analogy of a plant (if the multiples were the leaves moving out from the number, the factors were the roots anchoring the number in to the ground). We then look at what common factors were and to finish the lesson we had to explain what we understood by common factors, giving examples and a non-example too! Good use of this learning gem:For our Textiles Unit in Art we have been studying the artwork of artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser. We focused on his use of bold colour, perspective, line and shape. We will be using this artwork to influence us when creating textile wall hangings. After collecting ideas in our sketch books and drafting out a rough sketch we are now using wax crayon and watercolours to create wax resist paintings in his distinctive style. .HERE ARE THE FINISHED WAX RESIST PAINTINGS:Good use of these Learning Gems:We began our new topic in science this afternoon, starting with drawing a mind map to try and link some of the new key vocabulary we would be using. Following this, we talked about inherited and environmental features. The children had already completed a sheet for homework about what features they shared with other family members and so had a look at them and then talked about the difference between inherited and environmental. After this, we carried out our own investigations, focussing on one particular inherited feature, to find out what was most common in our class. The children then chose how to display their findings - all of them opting for a bar graph. As an extra challenge, some children looked at a further question - Are people who can roll their tongues more likely to be have a hitch hiker's thumb. This time, rather than using a table to record their investigation, they chose to record it in a Carroll diagram. I then presented the data in a pie chart, ready to use at the start of next weeks lesson! Great use of these learning gems: |
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