Year 6 - Snow Leopards and Jaguars

We have finished reading 'Journey to the River Sea' and enjoyed writing book reviews as well as comparing this book to others we have read. We excelled at sharing our opinions, using evidence from the text and including aspirational vocabulary. As mathematicians, we started the week by calculating with decimals. We have also mostly mastered the order of operations when completing longer number sentences. We have moved on to Position & Direction, focusing on co-ordinates in all four quadrants on a grid and performing translations. As scientists, we considered how artificial selection differs from natural selection. We explored this through looking at different breeds of dog. As historians, we reviewed our learning of our current topic, Darwin's Delights, and created a timeline to display the knowledge we have acquired. We have been continuing to practise our carols and are looking forward to sharing these with you next Wednesday morning.

Santa's arrival in school marked the start of December this week. We enjoyed writing letters to him explaining our good deeds this year; the special item we hope to receive and our goals for the new year. This week, we have also produced exceptional pieces of writing linked to 'Journey to the River Sea'. We produced incredible descriptions of the fire (in which Maia found herself trapped in at the end of Chapter 18) and wrote our own narrative pieces of what could happen to her and the Carters next. As mathematicians, we have concluded our work on fractions and have begun to think about decimals and the value of each digit in numbers up to 3 decimal places. In Computing, we have gathered images of our ancestors in preparation to create a morphing animation of the evolution of humans next week. As scientists, we have been focusing on inheritance. On Tuesday, we learnt about DNA and extracted this from strawberries. On Wednesday, we explored Gregor M