Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

We have been super busy writers in Room 6 this week. We are so excited to share what we have been working on in class as part of our IOW (Improve Our Writing) sessions.

What We Learned This Week: Sentence Fragments 🧩

This week, our big focus was learning all about fragment sentences. We discovered that a sentence fragment is only a little piece of a sentence, so it doesn’t make complete sense on its own!

We learned a very important rule: To make a fragment into a complete sentence, we have to add a subject or a person!

Here is an example of what we practised:

• Fragment: “Ran to the swings.” ❌ (Wait… who ran to the swings?)

• Complete Sentence: “The girl ran to the swings.” ✅ (Now it makes total sense!)

We have been doing fun IOW activities every single day this week, using our mini-whiteboards, playing sentence-sorting games, and spot-checking our work to make sure no lonely fragments escaped into our jotters.

What’s Next? 🚀

We are at the very start of a 3-week IOW block, which means we will be doing daily writing challenges for the next 3 weeks to build our sentence power!

• Next week’s focus: We are going to be learning all about run-on sentences and how to stop our sentences from going on and on and on without taking a breath!

Try It at Home! 🏠

Ask us at home if we can spot a fragment sentence! You can give us a silly phrase like “Ate a huge ice cream” and see if we can add a subject to fix it for you.

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Room 6 ✏️⭐

In literacy we have learned about regular and irregular past tense verbs. The rule is:

for regular we have to add ed and for irregular you change the root word.

Numeracy

12/24 hour clock.  We’ve been learning to write the time as the 12 and 24 hour clock. The rule for 24 hour clocks is if it is pm you add the amount of hours to twelve. 

In P.E. We are doing Rugby pop passes/target practice 

We have started learning about the Scottish Wars of Independence. We learned a little about Alexander III and created a class timeline of significant events that we will investigate this term. Ask us what we learned about Alexander III.

Well done to Lawrence for winning our PROUD certificate this week and to Alex for being our star writer!