Once again, there has been some great work produced by the year six children who come out with me this week. In mathematics, they looked at converting fractions into decimals, to decide which was largest. They also did some multi-stage problems, involving fractions, decimals and percentages. A typo on the power-point I had put together for some fraction word problems, indicated that the temperature in London was 200 degrees centigrade…thankfully this was a result of me pressing the ‘0’ too many times and so we don’t need to worry about the citizens of London!

 

In the reading comprehension lessons, the children completed their non-fiction comprehension about the Adlington Hall leaflet and looked at three different writer’s opinions about Stonehenge.

The Adlington Hall leaflet was also used in our writing as we began our article on the hall and gardens. We are aiming to make this a really readable piece, together with including some high quality language features and higher-level punctuation…so far, so good!

 

A few people had experienced difficulties with accurate paragraphing (or at times, any paragraphing at all!), so we looked at the correct use of paragraphing in S.P.A.G. and also when to use ‘whose’ or the contraction: ‘who’s’. If you want to test your own skills with this, there is a quiz on the following website:

We had a star of the week, with Niall D., who was incredibly motivated in his maths work and did fabulously well with it – keep up the hard work!

The challenge this week, is linked to numbers and the alphabet sequence – it doesn’t get better than this! It was taken from the following website:


Find a number with its letters in alphabetical order.

Example: "five" has "fiv" in alphabetical order, but not "e".

 

Have fun and enjoy!