What we're learning next week

So you know what some of what we're up to next week...

Maths:

Lots of data-handling: graphs, charts and tables of all kinds- pictograms, bar-charts, bar-line graphs, line-graphs. We'll be investigating the data- identifying what conclusions we can draw from them, if there are modes (most frequent/popular item) in the data.

Plus, if you are a super-whiz, you may want to investigate the median, average and range...

English:

Over the next 2.5 weeks, we're studying older literature, most notably, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. We'll be covering a variety of activities including:

• Practising our Comprehension skills (retrieving information, infering information, evaluating, commenting on preferences etc).



• Using dictionaries to look up archaic (words which are not used so often nowadays), Victorian words, words we don't understand.



• Revising the types of punctuation we encounter and why we use them.



• Writing our own new chapters and settings for the book- using all our powers of description.



• Identifying characters' personalities from what they say, do and others say about them.



• Evaluating how characters develop.



• Using comparative connectives.



• Comparing film and literature.

Science:

We'll be looking at the functions of the heart, the muscles, what happens to our bodies when we exercise and why.

D&T/Topic:

Try and save/find a shoe box for our Victorian room. Have a look at Victorian room pictures if you can, for inspiration.

And for the week after...Get practising finding your pulse rate!!! Also,we'll be assessing your story-skills soon!

This week's homework:

A Highwayman story review.

5 day food diary.