This week we were working on our procedural writing as well as recapping some of our maths and reading knowledge that we have been learning this year.  We finished our personal posters and some children have shared their one with the class.  We also finished off our sun and moon art from last week – They are all looking fantastic!  Finally we were learning all about what a siege is in our topic work and what people used to do to prepare for them.

Over the past couple of weeks we have been working on our comprehension skills in reading and working on being able to take inferences from the texts.  We have completed report writing and will now be moving on to procedural writing.  In maths we are applying our maths knowledge to solve word problems using the 4 operations (+, -, x, ÷ ). In the Creative play area some children were working hard to create information leaflets about a Scottish Castle. They showed fantastic enthusiasm and lots of effort went into to this.  Finally we have been creating posters on a topic of our choice for our talks that we will be doing next week.

We’ve had an enjoyable week and were lucky enough to spend some time outdoors, making the most of the sunny weather. In maths, we focused on comparing fractions, while in writing we completed our report writing unit by creating reports about Stone Keep castles. We also continued developing our athletic skills in the sunshine and took part in a community litter pick. To finish the week, we visited the bug hotels and had fun searching for insects.

In literacy this week we have all been reading non fiction books and been learning about the features of the book and how to use them to find information.  We have also began a class novel about a centipede called Harry.  This inspired our writing this week as we wrote information reports about centipedes.  In Maths we were comparing fractions to identify which were bigger or smaller.  Our Creative Play area now has a focus on castles as that is our new topic.  We had some great art work as well as some fab Lego castles.  We took advantage of the beautiful weather and practised our athletics skills outside.  Finally we finished the week celebrate the 850th year since Glasgow became a burgh.  We went on a virtual tour of Glasgow then made a persuasive poster to encourage others to visit Glasgow.  We then listened to the Glasgow song and the Jeely piece song before ending the week making jeely pieces which were very popular.

We had a fun last week before the Easter holidays finishing our Vikings topic and getting outdoors to enjoy some of the sunny weather we have had. In writing we made a start at how to write an information report as that will be our writing focus next term.  We used our knowledge of the Vikings to produce some fantastic reports using book creator and then shared these with each other.  In maths we were working on estimating and weighing. Lots of fun was had using the scales and holding the different weights.  We also made a class Viking Longship using the STEM straws.  It was fabulous to see them all working together and they made a ship that the whole class was able to fit in to, complete with oars, a mast and a dragon head.  They have all worked extremely hard this term and hope everyone has a fantastic Easter 🐣 and are looking forward to term 4.