Happy New Year!
Wow! Primary 6d cannot believe January is nearly over! It has gone so quickly! We all wrote our New Year Resolutions which included the best parts of last year and If I had one thing I could change. Let’s try to keep all our promises!!
This month we started our new novel. We have completed detailed comprehension work on Tom’s Midnight Garden. Some of it has been quite challenging but we have had really interesting discussions about word choice and punctuation. We can’t wait to find out what happens next. Some parts are quite unusual. Has Tom gone back into the past ???
In writing, we have been concentrating on poetry. We wrote poems about the signs of Winter and Scotland. Well done everyone for including lots of similes and metaphors. It has really helped us to revise these every morning. Keep this up as it has really improved our writing.
In numeracy, we have continued to work on decimals- multiplication,division,addition and subtractions. We have used calculators to help with more challenging problems. Other areas include:-
Division- Th H T U- with remainders
Challenging word problems to practise working with money
Volume- 3D shapes- cubes and cuboids- connecting l & ml to knowledge of decimals.
Our new project is the ‘Victorians’. There’s so many interesting facts to learn and we have linked this to I.C.T. We have been researching different areas, making notes and sharing our findings with the class. We have already worked together to create a timeline of major events. We are all so glad that we never attended a Victorian school!!!
This week we have been celebrating ‘Other World Religions’. Some of us have made Power Points about our own religions. These have been fantastic and the other children have enjoyed making notes and asking questions. Last week, we concentrated on learning about St Anthony. His life was really interesting and he was extremely good to the poor. The Gift of ‘Wisdom’ has been been really important in our journey towards ‘Pope Francis Faith Award’. We completed tasks in school and continued with short activities that could be carried out at home. Well done to those children who have shared all the ways they have helped at home throughout the month.
We are all looking forward to our short February holiday.
Mrs Bovaird & Primary 6d
