Following World Book Day, do you dare to complete the March Reading Challenge? How many can you complete?
Category Archives: Literacy
Reading Challenge
Kerr and Stuart’s Post
This week in literacy we have been learning how to use speech marks and commas. We used a game about an ancient temple to write our stories. Click on the links below to read our writing.
Ancient temple of massacre by Jake
Temple of doom by Stuart
Ancient by Heidi
The hidden discovery of the ancient temple of Ra by Kerr
The discovery of the haunted pyramid by Isla
In maths we have learned how to use the written method for subtraction and we used the dienes blocks to help us exchange hundreds, tens and units.
In art we learned about perspective drawings and then drew the Polar Express. We used the vanishing point, horizon lines and guidelines to help us.
In PE we have been doing basketball and this week we were perfecting our passing and dribbling.
Jackson and Kerr’s post
Everyone learned how to write numbers in words.
We have started a new book called Kensuke’s Kingdom as class Novel.
We predicted how we thought what would happen in the book and played unlikely or likely with the post it’s that we made. We decided how likely each prediction was to happen.
We painted watercolour flowers with Miss Walker.
Choosing a new book 
Today, Primary 6/7 picked their favourite Celebration! We all had our own reasons for choosing our favourite and Mrs Connell even got her hands on a Malteaser. After, we had to choose a book we wanted to read and give a reason for our answer. Here’s our choices…
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World Book Day 
Today we celebrated World Book Day and dressed as book characters or in our pyjamas.
Primary 6/7 arranged fun activities for the whole school to participate in. We completed word searches, bookmarks, first sentence quiz and listened to audio books.
Reading for Enjoyment featuring Quality Street
Today, at the start of our literacy lesson, we were asked to choose our favourite Quality Street and the reason why we picked it. Some of us chose the chocolate based on having tried them before, the flavour or even the wrapper.
Mrs Connell then asked us to choose a book from a selection and give a reason why. Some of us chose a book based on the cover, blurb, author or genre.
We pick books the same way we pick our favourite sweet treats.
Peer assessment
On Thursday, we shared our writing across the whole school. We wrote instructions on how to make the most disgusting sandwich. We certainly put Mrs Connell off her lunch. We peer assessed in pairs, then groups, using the success criteria and sentence starters to leave feedback.
Spelling
It was consolidation week this week… we used magnetic letters to spelling our words with the ng, ph and wh.
Super Spelling
Happy spellers this Monday morning.
We used Elkonin boxes and made word searches with our spelling words. Wonder if you can find our words too?
Spelling
Today we tried something different. We muddled up the letters in our spelling words to see if our partner could unscramble and spell them correctly.
