Speech

We have been starting to think about using speech. We had a worksheet with sentences that included some speech and then we had speech bubbles. We had to find the speech from the sentence and write it into the speech bubbles. We had to remember NOT to include speech marks but TO include other punctuation such as full stops and exclamation marks.

Writing – Newspapers

Over the next few weeks we will be writing newspaper articles. To start this, this week we looked at an example of an article from the Fairytale News all about Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf. We had to work with a partner to highlight different things that we will always find in newspaper articles. These included direct speech, facts, dates, an introduction and headline. We then were given a real newspaper article and we had to read it with our partner and see if the article had the same features. We had a sheet to record our findings and we looked at 2 or 3 different articles. This has been a good introduction to newspapers and will be continuing with this next week.

Art – Props

We have been working hard to create lots of props and parts of costumes for our play, “There’s a Sunflower in My Supper!” I promise that a date will be coming at the beginning of next week of when you are invited to come and watch us. We are continuing to work very hard in our rehearsals and our songs are sounding amazing!

Topic

We were applying our knowledge of animal classification again this week. We had a few pictures of animals and we had to say whether they were a mammal, amphibian etc and we had to write WHY we know this. We also had several sentences such as, “These animals are warm blooded” and we had to tick the groups of animals that the sentence applied to.

Sports Day Practise

Activities

We set up all of the activities that we will be completing at our potted sports in the gym hall this week. We got the chance to practise all of the stations so that we are very confident and know exactly what we are doing on sports day.

Races

We had lots of fun taking part in lots of different types of races, some of which we will be doing on Sports Day. We spoke about the importance of sportsmanship and not boasting when we win. We all had lots of fun as you can see from our photos.

French

We have been continuing to consolidate our French knowledge of days of the week, months, numbers to 20 and questions. We had our taster session with Madame Shepherd since the P7s are at Dalguise. She was so impressed at our knowledge and pronunciation and we are excited to see her on a weekly basis in P4!

Maths

We have all been working on chimney sums with week. Some of us have been doing takeaway sums with ‘borrowing.’ This has been tricky but we’ve all managed very well.