Mr Atkinson’s comment:
I am looking forward to seeing parents and guardians next week at Parents Evening and the pupils are excited about their upcoming trip to the Glasgow Science Centre on Friday. Some of the children also enjoyed attending their committees this week. I have reminded the class that if they wish to submit their Christmas card designs that were in the Home Learning Packs then these must be handed in early next week.
Literacy and English
For our final fact file writing lesson we used all our knowledge of Japan and Scotland as well as our Talk Homework to create country fact files/brochures. First we chose a layout and then decided which headings and titles to use. Afterwards, we wrote our information in the different sections and drew some pictures to match with our facts. Finally, we designed a front cover to encourage people to open and read our brochures.
We have also started reading our new group books!
Numeracy and Maths
In Maths some of us have started learning about symmetry, features of BODMAS, doubling, fact families and how to use pictorial methods to help with dividing by 2,3,4 and 5 involving remainders.
Health and Wellbeing
On our P.E. MUGA day we are going to continue to develop the skills linked to possession games but we are going to move on from hockey to football.
Science
We started to create gears using the donated cardboard and we will use these to help us with learning about energy.
IDL – Scotland and Japan
We have learned a lot this week about Japan and Scotland! We were inspired after making sushi rolls with the catering team to research different types of starters, main courses and dessert dishes that are popular in Japan and we used this information to create our own menus. We wrote descriptions of the dishes, drew pictures of the different types of foods and even recorded the price of them in Yen which is the Japanese currency.
We also compared different celebrations between Scotland and Japan and in partners we typed our notes onto a Google Slide. Next week we are going to work in groups to present some of these festivals to the class.
All of the work we did on comparing the two countries was very helpful for our travel brochure writing lesson this week!
