Friday 26 November 2010

What we’ve learnt about The Highwayman and highwaymen:

Here are just some of the facts we've learnt about Highwaymen and about our poem...

Shayna- Highwaymen stop rich people and say “Stand and deliver!”
Shikaila- That the highwayman used to rob coaches.
Erika- He isn't really a good man because he robs coaches
Precious- He says to Bess, “I'll be back with jewellery- Gold”
Adam- a Highwayman isn’t just one person.
Chloe- If you're a Highwayman, you might be caught by King George's men
Daniel- In the poem, the Highwayman loved Bess
Bilal- Highwaymen lived in Waltham Forest
Sara- We know why Bess got caught.
Ben- Bess fell in love with the Highwayman and Tim got angry
Nicole- The Highwayman was bad but he still loved Bess
Aadil- The Highwayman is 1/2 bad. 1/2 good
Shikaila- Bess shot herself because the Highwayman liked her first and then Tim, she shot herself to warn the Highwayman that there was a trap
Precious- I learnt what a pistol is.
Toba- Most Highwayman are quite ruthless
Chloe- Tim the Ostler loved Bess
Assia- If you're a Highwayman, you won’t live a safe life because soldiers would try to get you.
Nicole- I learnt what an Ostler is.
Nafisah- I learnt that in 1605-1800, highwaymen were very popular.
Nargese- I learnt that highwaymen rob day and night. I didn’t know that highwaymen could be in love with girls because they are robbing at day and night.

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.

Monday 22 November 2010

What we're doing this week


This week in English:
We are continuing with the Highwayman poem, writing our own poems based on it, practising dramatically presenting the poem in groups.

In maths we are studying perimeter and area of shapes (mainly rectangles)
Area=length x width

In science, we are studying the components of a balanced diets, learning what each gives us and planning healthy menus.