Literacy

In literacy this week, we started looking at personal writing and wrote descriptions about members of our families. We were challenged to include how we felt about our families too.  As part of our writing assessment, we played some board games and wrote instructions about how to play a game.

As part of our reading skills, we looked at using an index.  We enjoyed using an atlas to look at the index and also link this to our previous learning of grids and coordinates.

 

Numeracy

This week, we started looking at division strategies.  We looked at using equal groups to help us work out some division equations.

The children also looked at complex sequencing of numbers up to numbers of 10,000.

As a introduction to shape, we explored what shapes we could find around our classroom and made a graph of the results.

 

French

We listened to the story ” Goldilocks and the Three Bears” in French.  Using what we have learnt so far we were able to pick out and translate certain words.  We also looked at the similarity between some French words and English and used this to help us translate the text.

 

PE

This week we continued looking at Scottish Dancing.  The children enjoyed sharing the dances they had learnt before the holidays.

 

HWB

As part of our whole school focus we have been looking at kindness.  We had some great discussions in class this week about how we can be kind to others.  The children were able to write acrostic poems on kindness.  We talked about personal space and kind hands.  The children were able to reflect on times of kindness and also where they feel their personal space was not being respected.  They agreed as a class that asking permission first was very important to make sure we are not making anyone uncomfortable.

 

ICT

The children have been working very hard on their eportfolios this week, we look forward to you being to view these on Monday.

 

I would just like to say a massive thank you to everyone who contributed to my Christmas present.  It was so very kind.  I am not aware of who all took part so all the children have a thank you card in their bag today.  Thank you so much, Mrs Skilling.