5/6C’s Class Blog 2008

Miss Wyatt found this site, Wordcount, on someone else’s blog. I found it on her class blog. Now you’ve found it on our blog – the wonders of networking!

This site is fascinating; did you know that chocolate is the 4,204th most used word in English? Or that James is number 1000? The is the most commonly used word, and conquistador comes last in the database, at 86,800th!

Check out the wordle for a few others I picked out, then go and search yourself!

We’ve been busy having meetings with students, their parents and Mrs C, looking at what would be appropriate learning goals to aim for by the end of the year. All students showed that they are able to identify an appropriate goal which will help them to develop their skills and learn better.
A common focus for many of our class members was to become fluent at their times tables. To do this, they will need to learn every fact by heart. When we broke this task down together, we found this wasn’t as hard as it may have seemed – in fact, many students had only about 20 equations to learn to achieve this goal! We’ll report back on our progress soon.

Image made with Wordle.