New Topic

We watched a surprise clip this week which was a big clue to our new topic. Our new topic is going to be called ‘A Bug’s Life.’ We will be learning about different types of animals, insects, habitats and looking at plants and growing. We are also going to be working on a very exciting drama performance linking to our topic which will be keeping us very busy this term!

Syllables

We were thinking about syllables this week. This is when a word is split into its individual sounds. We had to decide if the words had 2,3 or 4 syllables and colour it correctly. We found that if we clapped whilst we said the word then that was a great help! It was much easier than we thought it might be! If we were finished, we had to think of our own words for a partner to work out the syllables.

Maths

This week the Triangles, Squares and Pentagons have been starting to look at division. We know that  this means sharing/splitting into equal groups. Some of us have been using concrete resources such as counters and cubes to help us share out into equal groups.

The Semicircles have been working on chimney sums. We know that if a question says ‘how many altogether’ then it must be an adding sum. We had to create our own written problems. We read them out to the group and everyone else had to calculate the answer.

Writing

In writing this week we listened to the story of Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. Our task was to change a part of the story and re-write our very own versions! Some of us had more than 3 bears, some of us had Goldilocks being eaten and some even had the bears being arrested! We will continue to work on this piece of writing next week. We also had some P7 boys come to work with a few of us and show us how we can use the laptops to help us with our writing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KndSVsY5HWM

Drama

To link with our writing, we had to act out one of our new stories of Goldilocks and the 3 Bears.  Our performances were very funny and involved lots of chasing and humour! We need to work on ensuring we always face the audience and don’t have our backs to them. In future lessons we are also going to set up a ‘stage’ area to make sure the audience can always hear us.

Circle Time

We had a discussion in Circle Time about CONFIDENCE. We discussed what confidence is and the fact that people have different levels of confidence. Some people have very low confidence and can be quite shy and anxious and some people have a lot of confidence and rarely feel embarrassed or awkward. We spoke about a few of our experiences where people had used their confidence in a negative way and had been a bit boastful. We had to volunteer to walk and act as if we had very low confidence or very high confidence. It was lots of fun! This linked nicely to our recent  gym lessons with Miss MacCrae as we have had to discuss how to win/lose appropriately.

Health and Wellbeing

As the weather was so nice this week we headed out to the playground to do some Health and Wellbeing. Building on our learning from last week, our challenge was to list or draw as many food items as we could think of and put them into the correct categories on the Eatwell Plate. We also used the interactive whiteboard to do a bit of this too. This is the website that we used…

https://www.healthyactivekids.com.au/teachers/online-games/whats-plate-kids/