Room 13 – January Blog

Well, it’s a new year and a new start in Room 13. We have set ourselves some challenging goals this term but with determination I know we can succeed! Let’s do this!!!

Social Studies

We have been learning about the Victorians and how they lived. It was sad to learn about what happened to children because only rich children went to school and poor children worked and got hit by a belt or cane to stay awake.

Numeracy

We were learning all about different types of triangles like isosceles, scalene, equilateral and right-angles triangles which have an angle of 90 degrees. We did a little bit of revision about 2D shapes and their properties like how many edges and vertices or vertex they have. We also did some revision on symmetry and how many lines of symmetry a shape has.

Technology

We are learning about how to make power point presentations. We are each making one about the Victorians and adding in text and information that we have found out from books and Wikipedia. We have been doing some numeracy threw sumdog.

Literacy

We have been completing our strategies through our non-fiction texts this term. We have used our topic Victorians to find out information and put them under sub headings then write the information in our own words and into sentences ready for writing our informational reports.  

 

Expressive Arts

This term we have been doing Y Dance. In Y Dance we have been learning about aspects of our social studies topic the Victorians through dance. We are learning about the different classes that people lived in like upper class, middle class and working class. We’ve also been doing some art lessons with Mrs Cunningham using the Inside out characters Joy, Fear, Anger, Sadness and Disgust. We used lots of glitter, glue, paint and sharpies to make the characters which will be put on display in the hall as part of how we manage our emotions.

Modern Languages

For the past couple of weeks we have been learning Spanish with Mrs Stewart and the primary 7’s. We’ve learned how to have conversations in Spanish with each other and how to say hello to all the teachers.

Robert Burns

As January the 25th is Robert Burns birthday we have been enjoying learning about him in class. Who he was and why he was famous? He was a famous scot who wrote poems in scottish dialect. We finished our celebration with an amazing assembly where we read out his poems, had irn bru, tea cakes, shortbread, heard a piper pipe bagpipes and even got to see Mrs Stewart show us some scottish highland dancing moves. It was the best assembly ever. 

 

 

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