Hello!

It’s nice to be back after the February weekend! Here is an overview of what we have been doing the past few weeks:

In literacy, we have focused on the “oo” phoneme for spelling. We were able to read a phoneme story and identify all of the “oo” words within it. We also practiced our spelling with our common words. We  have been developing our vocabulary by using a thesaurus. We learned that words with a similar meaning are called synonyms and we have been using our understanding of this to up-level our sentences. For our writing, we focused on persuasive writing and found it quite a challenge! We wrote a first draft, explored strong examples and identified the features of persuasive writing and then used this to re-draft and improve our own work. This week, we will be writing a persuasive piece trying to convince people to come and see our show, The Lion King!

In maths, we have began a unit of work based on data handling. We began by exploring tally charts and are able to read and write tally marks, knowing what to do when we reach a multiple of 5. We also explored bar graphs and pictograms and will be using our understanding of these to create a poster displaying the school’s favourite African animal.

In other areas, P5 have been developing their digital literacy skills and have been creating a powerpoint all about Africa to showcase our learning. We were all able to choose appropriate designs and fonts and could insert pictures from the internet into our powerpoints. We have been chunking the challenge and have all completed this task well! We have also been learning about the effects that smoking has on our bodies and enjoyed looking at various models to support our learning.

 

Thank you for your continued support, we have a very busy few weeks coming up! Keep your eyes peeled!

-Mrs McDonald x