On Monday we went over to Eastwood high school again to do PE with the sports leaders. We were split into six different groups, and each group has a particular sport we will be practising over the next few weeks. The different sports include hockey, tennis, netball, football, invasion games and rugby. In each group we built on the skills we learnt last week.
In writing we were finishing off our extreme earth fact files. Adding colour, information and lots of pictures and diagrams. There was a great variety of topics and layouts including volcanoes, earthquakes and hurricanes in booklets, trifolds and posters. They all looked great by the end of it!
In the woodland both classes were joined together and we were split into three groups to do different activities. Such as… knot tying, stick whittling (with potato peelers), drawing grids and marking coordinates with chalk and metre sticks and then simply playing in the woodland.
On Tuesday we were reading more of our group novels and answering tricky questions. Then we moved onto spelling where we were working on common mistakes and definitions.
In maths we were working on percentages, fractions and decimals. We learnt that 20/100 = 20% or 0.2! Here is an example: you buy shoes for £1 but they’re 50/100 of the price that would be the same as 50%. So if the denominator is one hundred then the numerator will be your percentage.
On Wednesday we had our individual and sibling photos, so we all came in shiny and new. Then we learnt all about wildfires, we learnt about the conditions they happen in and the things they affect. Did you know 84% of them are caused by humans!
In literacy we were working on punctuation. We learned all the rules about speech marks and completed a worksheet where you had to add in capital letters, speech marks and other punctuation in their correct places.
On Thursday In maths we were working on percentages again. We chose to work with word problems or normal questions.
In literacy we were working on answering questions from a poem called “bullied” and explored why the poet used different phrases or words and if they had a good effect on the poem. We had a good chat at the end about what the moral was.
In the afternoon we had Mr Eadie. First we did music and we had loads of fun learning musical terms, scales and how to play “seven nation army” on the glockenspiels. Then we did art and were working on pictures inspired by Gaudi, an architect from Barcelona. We drew a simple outline then filled it with cut out bits of paper making sure to leave gaps.
On Friday we had our bikeability, We were on the roads for the morning learning how to be safe on them. We learnt a safe start, safe stop, U turn and a left signal. When we got back we did a bit of net ball in PE with Mr Eadie, then learnt about safe roads and got ready for lunch.
In the afternoon we had a flexible Friday where we finished bits and bobs that needed doing.
