We have been learning about subtracting with exchange and also moving onto thinking about Place Value using hundreds, tens and units. Some of us have been looking at fractions and finding halves and quarters.

In French we have been learning the names of some animals. We made some fantastic posters to show the pets we would like to have, using our new french vocabulary. We also revised our numbers in French with various games.

We had lost our paper recycling bin and we were very happy to get a new one so we can keep recycling our paper.

This week we wrote about how to play Riverbank – which is our favourite game in PE.

With Mrs Dougal we have been learning about Capelrig House. It is a Georgian house that is symmetrical.

In literacy we have been learning about nouns. We know that people, places and things are all nouns. We were writing about how to make your own scratch art.  We used bossy verbs to make our instructions clear.

In numeracy we have been learning subtraction with exchange. We used tens and units to help us see how borrow a ten and exchange it into units. We are definitely getting the hang of this.

We really enjoyed having our grown ups in to visit us this week. We moved between different stations all about food chains. Our favourites were making the houses for animals and creating a superhero animal.

This week in numeracy we have been learning about measuring length. We had lots of fun using old methods to measure like paces and cubits. We then used metre sticks and rulers to estimate and measure different objects in the classroom in metres and centimetres.

In literacy we wrote instructions on how to make a jam sandwich. Although,we all laughed when Mrs Lazonby dropped the jam sandwich on the floor! We remembered to include key features like a title, a list of what is needed, instructions in order and different time openers.

We have been learning about food chains in different habitats this week. We created our own ocean food chains,  remembering to start with a producer and end with and predator. We also looked at the woodland habitat and created food chain pyramids to show which animals are carnivores, omnivores and herbivores.

This week in numeracy we have been looking at the ‘language of subtraction’. We can recognise the key words that tell us to subtract and use different strategies to solve the calculation.

As part of our living things topic we looked at food chains. We started by talking about what different animals we know eat. We learnt that food chains are a way of showing how different plants and animals depend on each other for survival. We know that all food chains start with energy from the sun.

For RME we are starting to look at the parables of Jesus. We told the story of the prodigal son together with the help of some very good actors! We talked about the adjectives we could use to describe the different characters in the story.

In literacy we are learning about instructions. We looked at lots of different examples of instructions like games, recipes and diy manuals. This helped us work out what we need to include in our writing for next week.