Blog Update 27th January

Happy weekend.
We have had a productive week in which we have become quite fluent in calculating area and perimeter. Today we have investigated that the area of a right angled triangle is actually just half of a rectangle and we already know how to calculate the area of a rectangle so that was some extra knowledge for free.
Next week we shall be moving onto the calculation of volume and then revising different types of measures and how we convert from one unit of measure to another. It would be a help if their attention could be drawn towards the units of measure used for everyday things such as car journeys, cooking, liquids, a packet of crisps compared with a sack of potatoes etc.
In English we have been investigating formal vocabulary in readiness for writing a police report based on the crime at the beginning of our novel ‘Smith’. Before that though, the children are going to have to improve a report that I wrote regarding a threat to a pair of eagles – they didn’t seem to think that I had done a very good job of it!
History this last week had us learning a bit about the Ottoman Empire, where it was located and when it existed. We began to discuss the achievements of the empire and will be debating which were most notable.
Finally, I have included a few photos of the gnome villages that they created during our Woodland School session this week. There are some lucky gnomes in Chagford!