This week we were learning to run in and skip in the big rope and then run back out. We  also focused on our passing during basketball and got the chance to play some mini games.

This week we were learning about the suffix – ful and finished part 1 of our Holes novel. We have been learning to use descriptive and figurative language in our writing and wrote our own descriptions of a storm scene.

We also got the chance to make our very own play-dough, it was great fun and we loved getting to play with it after.

Remember: Swimming starts on our first day back – Tuesday 21st October. Please remember your bus pass and come prepared with everything you need.

This week we have been continuing to work on our skipping and basketball skills in PE.

In numeracy we’ve been working on completing a range of addition and subtraction calculations, involving money. We have been  continuing to work on telling the time, using analogue and digital clocks.

In literacy we have been learning about the soft c spelling rule, and applying this correctly within our work. We have also been continuing to work on our descriptive writing, using similes, alliteration, personification and interesting adjectives to improve our writing.

We have also been exploring the different emotions that we might feel and discussing situations when we might experience these.

We also created our own lava lamps in science. We discovered that the salt pulled the oil down to the bottom & once the salt dissolved then the oil went back to the top.

This week we have been working on our basketball skills in PE. We have also been learning to play the glockenspiels in music and some of our class went along to Brass for the first time this week to try out some of the different instruments.

We have been continuing to work on subtraction with exchange and we have been learning to convert times between 12 and 24 hour clock.

We also used Microsoft Word to create our own positive affirmation posters and added our first target onto our digital profiles.

This week’s homework is multiplication based. Each child has been given a worksheet home, either a multiplication fact families sheet or a multiplication wheel. These should be returned by Friday.

This week we have been continuing our skipping block in PE, and have been learning some new skills.

We have continued to work on our knowledge of homophones and have been focusing on using descriptive language in our writing. In numeracy we enjoyed getting to share our learning with our visitors from home & we have also been working on completing subtraction calculations with exchange.

In science we completed our own experiments around dissolving, we investigated what impact the temperature of the water had on the speed of the substance dissolving.

This week we have been learning about prefixes in spelling, and we have been reading more of our book study and focussing on our different reading strategies. In numeracy we have been working on time & being able to tell the time using an analogue clock.

We have been learning about reversible and irreversible changes in science & we also completed our own chromatography experiments.

We also completed our own Wassily Kandinsky inspired artwork.

This week we have been practising skipping for PE and making sure our ropes were the right size for us.

In science we were learning reversible and irreversible changes, we were looking at how eggs change when they have are heated up. In numeracy we were revising addition with carrying.

The captain interviews also took place and we can’t wait to find out who our new captains will be.

Typed by Kacey

It’s been a busy start to P6!
We have started our new book study ‘Holes’ and have been revising our different reading strategies. We have created our class charter and discussed the things that are important to us, both individually and the others within our class.

We have been doing a lot of work on our school value – ‘Achieving’, and talked about what this looks like at Catrine Primary. We also discussed the importance of respect and created our own poems about what respect means to us.

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