” We have been learning about cause and effect when reading our group books. Cause and effect is when something happens and then explaining how and why it happened.  Our group were reading the story ‘The Little Girl and the Bear’. The girl wanted to get back to her house but she was in the forest  and didn’t know how to get home.  She was lost!  She was warned by her Mum and Dad not to go too far but she did anyway. She pretended to the bear she was on the roof but really she was hiding in a basket.  The bear carried her home in the basket but he didn’t know she was hiding there. The cause was that the little girl was lost and she tricked the bear into taking her home.  The effect was that she got home safely in the end.”

Dylan

SQUARES MATHS GROUP

“In Numeracy and Mathematics I have been learning about tally marks.  When you have four tally marks and then onto number five, you use number five to make a cross.  We even learnt about frequency tables.  You have to draw lines to make columns and rows.  You have to include words and numbers.  I am in the Squares group.”

Gracie

CIRCLES MATHS GROUP

“I have been learning about large numbers.  Numbers past one thousand.  We put the numbers into the columns; thousands, hundreds, tens and units.  It is a bit tricky but I’m doing well.”

Dylan

TRIANGLES MATHS GROUP

The Triangles group continue to tackle some tricky division work!

EDINBURGH BOOK FESTIVAL

“We went to see an author and he has written a couple of books.  You could buy the books that he actually wrote. He signed his autograph on it.  He drew us some cool pictures too on the book.  The author was called Dave. He writes the Squirrel Boy books.  They are funny.  We went to Edinburgh Book Festival.  We got to ask him questions.  Safi asked a question.  Primary Five and Primary Seven came too but they spoke to a different author.  It was a lot of fun. I think maybe I would like to be an author when I’m older (Dylan).  Everybody enjoyed the day, even Mr Fry!”

Dylan and Gracie