Another week and another load of work accomplished! We have been busy looking at time and space and everything in between!
In Maths we started looking at time: how to tell it and the different ways it can be told. We looked at the differences between analogue and digital time. In analogue time we learnt the difference between a.m (ante meridiem which is Latin for before midday) and p.m. (post meridiem which is Latin for after midday). Each period in analogue time consists of one period from 1 - 12. In the morning we have to have put a.m. at the end of our numerical representation of time. So, one o'clock in the morning becomes 1:00 a.m. If we are talking about any time on noon or after it up until midnight then we must write p.m. So, one o'clock in the afternoon becomes 1:00 p.m.
In digital time we have been introduced to the concept of the twenty-four hour clock. In digital time a twenty four hour day is divided up into twenty-four parts. There are two differences in this way of telling time compared to that of the analogue way of telling time. Midnight is represented as 00:00. The hours that run from this move incrementally one at a time to midday. So, in digital time one o'clock in the morning is represented as 01:00. After midday in digital time we do not have a.m. or p.m. but time still moves forward! As the hours pass by after midday so does our digital clock...so, one o'clock in digital time becomes 13:00. We have not been scared by this new adventure into telling the time and if you feel brave enough to tell the time with an analogue clock, try this game:
BANG ON TIME!
In English this week we have been learning about speech marks and the punctuation we use in speech marks. We have learnt that whenever anyone speaks we need to show this by using not only speech marks but the correct speech mark. When a character or person starts to speak we use opening speech marks: “ . When the character has finished speaking we use closing speech marks: ”. We also learnt that before we use our closing speech marks we must always use punctuation to denote either the way the words have been spoken or punctuation that signals if we are telling the reader who is speaking. The punctuation we use is either a question mark ? or an exclamation mark ! or a comma , which we always use before we close them to tell our reader who has been speaking and finally we have a full stop . which we use whenever we are finishing a line of dialogue with no need to write who has spoken.
At the height of the Roman Empire it looked like this:
In Maths we started looking at time: how to tell it and the different ways it can be told. We looked at the differences between analogue and digital time. In analogue time we learnt the difference between a.m (ante meridiem which is Latin for before midday) and p.m. (post meridiem which is Latin for after midday). Each period in analogue time consists of one period from 1 - 12. In the morning we have to have put a.m. at the end of our numerical representation of time. So, one o'clock in the morning becomes 1:00 a.m. If we are talking about any time on noon or after it up until midnight then we must write p.m. So, one o'clock in the afternoon becomes 1:00 p.m.
In digital time we have been introduced to the concept of the twenty-four hour clock. In digital time a twenty four hour day is divided up into twenty-four parts. There are two differences in this way of telling time compared to that of the analogue way of telling time. Midnight is represented as 00:00. The hours that run from this move incrementally one at a time to midday. So, in digital time one o'clock in the morning is represented as 01:00. After midday in digital time we do not have a.m. or p.m. but time still moves forward! As the hours pass by after midday so does our digital clock...so, one o'clock in digital time becomes 13:00. We have not been scared by this new adventure into telling the time and if you feel brave enough to tell the time with an analogue clock, try this game:
BANG ON TIME!
In English this week we have been learning about speech marks and the punctuation we use in speech marks. We have learnt that whenever anyone speaks we need to show this by using not only speech marks but the correct speech mark. When a character or person starts to speak we use opening speech marks: “ . When the character has finished speaking we use closing speech marks: ”. We also learnt that before we use our closing speech marks we must always use punctuation to denote either the way the words have been spoken or punctuation that signals if we are telling the reader who is speaking. The punctuation we use is either a question mark ? or an exclamation mark ! or a comma , which we always use before we close them to tell our reader who has been speaking and finally we have a full stop . which we use whenever we are finishing a line of dialogue with no need to write who has spoken.
In our Topic lessons we have been finishing up the reasons why Rome was geographically situated where it was (which we have told the whole school about in our assembly today!). We started this week to look at the differences between an Empire and a Republic. We learnt that in a Republic people had been given the chance to vote (although in Roman times it was only men who could vote for men) where an empire was a vast area of land ruled by one person called an Emperor. We focused mostly this week on the Republic which involved the male citizens of Rome and who worked to pass decrees in either the capacity of assemblies or the Senate. To get an idea of the nature of how these committees worked we looked both at a painting (Cicero Denounces Catiline, by Cesare Maccari) representing the Senate...
And Prime Minister's Questions from Britain to get a sense of what Ancient Roman politics would have sounded like:
At the height of the Roman Empire it looked like this:
If you are interested in learning more about the differences between a Republic and an Empire please click this link.
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