Month: February 2013

British museum

Class 5 visited the British Museum on Friday to look at their Ancient Greece Galleries, and to have a workshop on identifying characters from the Greek myths from their pictures.

Can you remember how we can identify:

Heracles?
Athena?
Medusa?

We also used these photos, which we took, to inspire us in writing; have a look at the Class 5 Book of Myths to read our wonderfully imaginative responses (or read the comments below, where several are featured).
Which mythical beasts and immortals can you spot?

Maths Investigation Skills

In Class 5 this week, we were developing our maths investigation skills, as well as our knowledge of shape and space.

We worked collaboratively, and made some interesting discoveries about the sums of the angles of a variety of polygons (without using a protractor), and recorded our results systematically. Have a look at our pictures to see how we investigated the angles and recorded our results. What might be the best way to present our findings?

In each group, there were 3 roles:

•The team leader makes sure the group is on task and that everyone is included in the thinking.
•The monitor makes sure the chairperson is doing the job properly.
•The recorder reminds the group to record their thinking or answers.