WEEK BEGINNING 11-11-13

Greek Play scripts. This week we had great fun performing our Ancient Greek Olympics play scripts that we had created.

Maths Marking /success criteria. Week beginning 11-11-13

Tell the time to the nearest min; use analogue, digital and Roman numeral clocks; use am and pm times appropriately; convert units of time, work out time intervals crossing the hour, collect data and organise into bar charts and pictograms.

Tell the time to the nearest minute on analogue clocks some with Roman numerals.

Convert between digital and analogue times using am and pm.

Find times that are 30, 40 and 45 mins later crossing the hour.

Time events in seconds.

Collect data and record results in bar charts where one step represents 5 or 10 units.

Present data in pictograms where one symbol represents 4 units.

Here are some links to some related sites

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/wmnet/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/503/clock.swf

http://www.teacherled.com/resources/clockspin/bigbenload.html

In Literacy this week we are beginning a new genre of Greek myth writing.

Literacy Marking /success criteria. Week beginning 11-11-13 (for 3 weeks)

My myth includes a beginning, a build-up, a climax, a resolution and an ending

I explained a natural phenomena

I used a traditional opening and ending

I used adjectives and powerful verbs to help describe characters

I used alliteration

I used repetitive sentences

I included speech between the main characters

I used time connectives

I included an adverbial phrase

I included a sentences with ‘but’ in it

I included a question

Here are some links to some related sites

http://www.dltk-kids.com/world/greece/index.htm activities and resources

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/ancient_greeks/gods_and_heroes/ Ancient Greek Gods and Heroes

http://www.mythweb.com/gods/index.html an interactive look at the Olympians – hover over a god or goddess to find out about them

http://www.mythweb.com/heroes/heroes.html find out about Greek heroes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/ancient_greeks/ play a game where you are the hero

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-c/greek-myths/load.htm?f simple Greek myths which are easier to read

http://greece.mrdonn.org/greekgods/index.html click on the names of gods to find out more about them

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/greece/gods.htm about Greek gods and goddesses

http://storynory.com/2008/08/24/the-boy-who-flew-too-high/ the story of Icarus