The children were so excited to start our advent calendar this week.  We have been using “spin the wheel” to pick 2 children who get a chocolate daily.

In literacy, we wrote out clear instructions to play the games we created last week.  We made sure to use bossy verbs and avoid “I” and “we” in our instructions.  We followed the success criteria of a procedural text and marked our own work.  On Wednesday, we used our writing to lead the game during our PE time.  We had time to set up, explain the rules to our teammates and then carried out our games.  At the end, we evaluated how well our teammates lead the session, listened to the instructions for our games and showed the skills we learnt in class.

We wrote wanted posters about a destroyed garden in our book “The boy who grew dragons”.

In Numeracy, we started looking at division.  We focused on dividing using arrays and equal groups.  Some of us started looking at division with remainders.

In our topic, we looked at the Tay Bridge Disaster and listened to information about what happened.  We discussed the structural properties of the bridge and what could have made it stronger.  The children then designed their own bridge discussing how they thought the bridge would survive the weather and the sea.

Hope you have a great rest of week, Mrs Skilling.