Week 5!

This week we have been thinking about our speech. We have been choosing topics, writing down what we know and writing our first paragraphs.

We have also been finishing off our Greek vases and learning about the different types of jobs people did.  We found out that some jobs were done by slaves or freemen.  Slaves did the hard and dirty work but freemen did the other jobs.  If you went to the doctors in ancient Greece you might be in trouble because they liked to chop off parts of your body!
 

In maths we have been thinking about our times tables and how you can solve tricky sums by splitting them up.  Like 17x5 can be split into 10x5=50 and 7x5=35.  Then you add 50+35=85.  So 17x5=85!  Simple!

We have also been doing some work on algebra.  There is a great balancing game that we like that you can try by clicking the picture below.

We have also been learning about different shapes.  We found that you can use a triangle to make lots of different shapes.  For a really interesting website about shapes, click on the picture below.