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Basketball Skills

This week we are doing basketball skills the main skill we have been doing is all different types of dribbling like  running and dribbling  and giving someone a  high five or hand shake .

Fireworks art (last week)/Fire Safety Talk

This week has been busy so we have done loads of stuff. The firemen from Motherwell fire station came into see us and have a talk about firework because it was getting close to Guy Fawkes night.   We saw some really horrible pictures from people who has been scarred for life by fireworks. This made us really think if fireworks were really that safe. The fireman told us, children (that’s us) to never use fireworks, be careful using sparklers and he gave advice to go to controlled firework nights. We all took this information in and kept safe during Guy Fawkes night

Taught Writing (info writing on the wars of independence)

This week for taught writing we wrote and researched facts about the Scottish wars of independence. We wrote about the job of a Monarch how they get that job and how things have changed over time what caused the wars and when this happened and about some famous warriors and kings

Money and Finance (credit cards!)

We were looking a credit card statement problem and working out things like interest and what is the difference between a Debit and Credit card. We also created our own credit card statement problems. Some of these are pictured below.

Cooperative Learning Challenge 

Miss McNeill set us a challenge to create, as a class, a tree as part of a whole school display. This is going to be showcasing some of the whole schools ability to work together. We hard worked together and cooperated so well. Here are some great grouping working pictures below…

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