**Star of the Week**

Well done to Grace who wrote an excellent letter of complaint using strong language and thoughts and feelings towards the company.

Writing

This week we went back to basics and recapped capital letters and full stops. We know that we should be using a capital letter at the beginning of every new sentence and for any names of people or places. We know that full stops come at the end of a sentence. We discussed that a sentence is a group of words that makes sense together and doesn’t stop abruptly. We had to listen to some words and decide if it was a sentence or not. We then had to complete a worksheet filling in the missing capitals and full stops before doing a little bit of our own writing with the focus being on capitals and full stops. This is going to be our main focus in writing next week too.

Spelling

We had to copy out our words and try and get the spellings into our memories. We discussed each sound for this week and the definitions of any unknown words.

Maths

We have been continuing to learn about measurement with a focus on volume. We have been learning to read and use scales (such as measuring jugs) and we learned that even though containers may be different, they can still hold an equal volume of liquid. We experimented and had to think about how many of each small container we thought would fit into the litre container. We were surprised at how much water 1 litre was.

Topic – Castles

We were thinking about historical timelines this week. We know that timelines are always in chronological order. We spoke about the year 0 and the meanings of BC and AD. We then had to work as a team to place historical events in the correct order, imagining they were on a timeline. For homework we are going to be creating our own personal timeline choosing a few events from our lives.

We also learned about the different parts of a castle. We learned why castles had to have defense systems in place to protect themselves from enemies attacking them. We had to get into small groups to show how the draw bridge would work at a castle.

Science – Human Body

We have moved on from the bones this week and are starting to think about important organs. This week we were learning about the heart. We know that the heart is an organ and a muscle. We know that it has 4 chambers and it pumps blood to all parts of the body. We are trying to remember that veins take blood to the heart and arteries take blood away from the heart. We were able to decide activities that help to keep a heart healthy and activities that can be bad for the heart.

We spent a long time discussing how important the heart is and how it works. We watched the following video to reinforce this..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eVG45_iF9U

 

Health & Wellbeing

Circle Time

In Circle Time this week we were thinking about what we should do if we see something happen in the playground. We spoke about dos and don’ts and that it is our responsibility to report something if we observe something unacceptable happening. We also highlighted that we have control over ourselves – we shouldn’t be doing things just because someone has told us to. We will be continuing to think about these lessons in future Circle Time discussions.

Mrs Cox

This week with Mrs Cox we were developing our massage skills.

ICT

In ICT this week we had 3 Primary 7s come to help us and introduce us to Google Docs. We had to use our special Google login to log on and had to start practising using the dictionary feature and pictures feature of Google Docs. We found this quite tricky to use but we’re sure we will get used to it as we continue to use it and develop our skills in the future. Thank you to the Primary 7s for their help 🙂

Talks

Everyone gave fantastic talks this week and it was interesting to see such a wide variety of topics. It was obvious how much hard work and preparation had gone into the task. The most common next step for talks is to try and use more eye contact with the audience. Well done 3D! (apologies to anyone not included in the following photos – technology issues!!)