We have had a really busy week. We have been looking at our local history. In 1965 there was a colliery disaster in Cambrian Colliery. We have been spending some time finding all about it. We used Onenote to put our research into one collaborative document. we are now ready to write our TV news reports about the disaster. Cameras at the ready. We have been creating maps of the Rhondda ready for our interactive display. we have been finding all about different states of matter in Science, exploring the differences.
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This week we have had lots of fun! We had a special task this week to produce an interactive Harry Potter book. We were going to walk down Diagon Alley and as we came to different shops we were going to make things to put into our carrier bags. We started by writing a story about Diagon Alley. The story needed to include the shops we would visit. Next we created maps of Diagon Alley. We used the Diagon Alley chapter and had to create an interpretation. We used the 8 point compass too to know what direction we were going in. We then split our story up into sections to create our story book. Our visit visit was then to 'The Leaky Cauldron' where we created menus of wizard food and created a list of problem solving questions about the food we could eat. We had lots of fun making our problems up and working out the costs in galleons, sickles and knuts. Our next task was to go to Gringotts where we used Microsoft Excel to create a money exchange. We needed to change wizard money into pounds sterling. This required lots of maths and use of simple formulas. We then created the book list that Harry Potter needed to buy for his first week in Hogwarts. We used the simple formulas to add and then we used the sum formula to add the long columns. We are truly mathematicians. we explored adverts and what makes an advert next so we could write an advert for Madam Malkins Robes for all Occasions shop. we had to learn how to be persuasive and use rhetorical questions. We then created sale posters for the Owl Emporium. We had to work with fractions and percentages, working out what the new sale prices would be. With lots of bookmarks, carrier bags and wands made, we then had to put together the book. We worked very hard with just a few things left to finish off before we unveil our books.
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March 2016
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