Literacy 

In Room 3, we have been learning all about The Gruffalo, by Julia Donaldson. We have enjoyed exploring the book and it’s characters, through descriptive writing and fun activities. We have learnt a Gruffalo song and even made up a Gruffalo dance. We also went on an outdoor adventure to search for creatures which might live in the deep, dark woods.

We have been making good progress through our phonemes. We enjoy using different and fun ways to learn our sounds. We love writing them using materials such as, chalk and glitter.

Maths 

In Room 3, we have been working hard to master concepts, such as place value and addition/subtraction.

To help us with our addition and subtraction we have been using one of our Number Talks strategies – the number line. Room 3 enjoy using their frog leaps to complete tricky calculations.

We have been using Sumdog to improve our mental maths skills. We like competing as a class to unlock new games and earning a new pet.

Health and Wellbeing

In Room 3, we have settled in well and have enjoyed building new friendships. We have enjoyed learning about Tiddler, the little fish who tells tall tales. Tiddler has helped us think about some of the consequences of telling tall tales and how that can affect our relationships with others.

During P.E., we have been focusing on Football. We have been working on important skills which we can use during our game, such as ball control and passing accurately.

Literacy 

This month in Literacy primary 7 have been very busy. We have started working in our new spelling groups, read our modelling novel ‘The Butterfly Lion’ and have written reports on Scotland and Africa!

We loved our first P7 novel, some feedback included;

“I love books about animals, I would like to read more books by Michael Morpurgo” – Devon

“I would only change the part where the white lion died to the white lion staying alive.” – Scott

“…the best bit was when Bertie came back from the army and found the lion. I would not change anything.” – Kayla-Louise

Our Literacy target for next month is to work more independently as we move on to our group novels!

Full Stops – Bill’s New Frock

Commas – Kensuke’s Kingdom

Hyphens – Charlotte’s Web

Numeracy

So far, Rm. 14 have made great progress through their Numeracy concepts!! We’ve already learned about place value, addition and subtraction!

Below are some of our favourite numeracy moments from the past month;

The magic Number – We have been using the magic number game to decrease, increase and round large numbers. It helps us revise our place value knowledge!

Sumdog – Primary 7 love using Sumdog every Tuesday afternoon and any other day when we’ve finished our work. Our Sumdog Stars this month are Siobhan, Marc and Kevin for most questions answered correctly. Well Done!

Tables Pong – Playing tables pong helps us learn our times table facts. Plus, it’s so much fun we forget we’re revising tables!

Numeracy Open Afternoon – Our numeracy open afternoon was a great success, we loved showing our parents and carers who visited what we do during numeracy time. We even got to tech them some place value and try challenge them with addition and subtraction.

Number Talks – Number Talks is now a part of daily life in P7. We are becoming skilled in using mental strategies to solve problems and really enjoy encouraging and challenging each other when we share answers.

Next month we will be learning about Multiplication and Division! Our target is to be able to recall all of our tables accurately by the start of November.

Health and Wellbeing

During our health and wellbeing time, we have been learning about our ‘personal network’. We know where and when to seek support depending on how we feel.

In P.E. we have completed a sports leaders course with David Kennedy from active schools. We loved becoming Junior Leaders and delivering our lessons to our peers.

Our target for Health and Wellbeing is to set up and run our junior leaders clubs for the infant children to enjoy at lunch time.