We have had a very productive week in 7b! Here is a little overview of everything that we got up to:

Poetry

We continued exploring poetry and wrote our very own cinquain, limericks and haikus. We also had a go at writing a group poem with the theme ‘The Door’.

Imagery

We explored how authors and poets use imagery in their writing to create clearer pictures in the readers mind. We then were given a challenge of reading a poem and drawing what we pictured while reading. Everyone had different images and in the end Mrs Rasul revealed that the poem was actually about a tiger!

The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse

Having explored the themes of friendship, kindness and love, we created a class book inspired by the author and illustrater Charlie Mackesy. We each created our page inspired by his famous book, and then made a class version. Tia and Aarohi kindly offered to make the front cover. This book will now be in our cosy corner for anyone to read.

Vedic Square for maths

As part of maths, we learned about John Napier, one of Scotland’s most famous mathematicians. We then went on to look at maths patterns through a story called the Napier code. The first chapter had us exploring Vedic squares. These squares crate shape patterns based on the positioning of the numbers.