#318 - Class 5/6 at half term

Gary in the autumn light

So I thought I would just do the review here and then put stuff in which I can't put in later on. Here is what we did this half term.

The Main Lessons were Ancient India, Mesopotamia, Babylon, Persia and Egypt

India - Vishnu, the Ganges River and we made chapatti. Our projects were the Animals of the Ganges and Avatars of Vishnu. We worked on punctuation and did imaginative writing. The class began to learn how to take notes and then rewrite the corrected passages out.

Mesopotamia and Babylon - we did the Tigris, Euphrates and we did the myths of Marduk and the Enuma Elish. We made ice cream. We drew the Rivers using watercolour. We also learned about the Marsh Arabs who lived in the delta of the Euphrates.

Persia - we did the life of Zarathustra and wrote a play. We made bergedil. We drew the vulture and learnt about some practises of Zoroastrianism. They wrote out the first Gatha.

Egypt - we did the story of Ra and Isis, Isis and Osiris and Horus the Avenger. We learned about the importance of the Nile and drew the map in our ML books. We also found out about the Book of the Dead, hieroglyphs and also drew the frieze from the Hall of Judgement. We performed the play on Zarathustra. We had a fungi field trip and learned how to put together a field studies journal.

We did lots of fractions, especially addition, subtraction and cancelling fractions.

For physical activity we ran every morning and used the balls to develop teamwork and co-ordination.

It has been a super full half term. I know I am a better teacher, no question. But it has also been SUCH hard work. Such hard work because jaysus, I insist on doing a variety of activities with the kids. And it is really tough like, especially on my own. So I go home utterly destroyed and exhausted.

Right I need to go for my run now.