Carrying on from our writing lesson last week, we are creating a detailed plan for each other to follow to be able to continue each other’s stories more to the authors ideas. We are including a character description, a labelled map of the setting and a summary of the beginning, middle and end.

We can’t wait to see thsee results and compare the quality of stories compared to last week without a plan or guide to follow.

Yesterday, after a hard working day of reading more of our group novels and singing our hearts out practising for the nativity and working hard in nativity cast practise and ICT, we decided to put up our tree in our Christmas spirit. It looks great! We also challenged ourself on the next stage of power lines, using our problem solving skills to solve addition problems.

Yesterday, we were carrying out the experiment of mummifying a tomato. We are trying to find out what natron (bicarbonate of soda and salt) does to a tomato to prove the idea of why the Ancient Egyptians used it on bodies when mummifying.

We have to wait 2 weeks for the results!

Today, each child received a copy of the Christmas homework grid. Each child should complete one activity each week ( 2 pieces by 17th December).

There are 6 different options to choose 2 from. Children can complete more than 2 over the two weeks if they wish.

Dojo points will be awarded for each piece brought in to show the class during our check in circle time on Monday mornings (10th and 17th).

House points will be awarded on the 17th for how many activities have been completed and signed by this date.

( 2 pieces = 10 house points, 4 pieces = 20 house points and all 6 activities completed= 50 house points)

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P5/6 also have a competition set on Sumdog over the next two weeks related to their maths (some revision of place value and some currrent addition and subtraction).

There is also the addition of a challenge on Sumdog for this week to practise reading (trial). Miss Park would love to hear your feedback about the reading! Pupils will be given time on Wednesday to try both of these.

On Friday afternoon, we enjoyed spending more time with our reading buddies in P2/3. We listened to them read their reading book, both read a librar book and asked questions about the story.

Today, we had PE and were practising our celidh partner dancing and next week will learn some group celidh dances. 💃

We participated in some drama to the theme of Jack and the beanstalk and played some games. We also learned some more yoga positions 🧘‍♀️ 🧘‍♂️ and finished with some whole class games.

Today, we were very lucky and got to try out a military fitness training session. These challenges are to help us improve our stamina, speed, agility and strength. We had so much fun!

P5/6 were very lucky to have Mrs Keith in to help us with our story writing. She explained, from a published authors point of view just how long the process of writing a book is. She showed us the planning that went in to Hienemann Active Maths Books and the children’s story books she has created.

We looked closely at how to begin a story and the different ways we can do this. There are 6 different ways to begin a story: using a question, dialogue, describing a character, setting, object or action.

We looked at books in pairs to decide how the author has started the story to hook the reader in.

For our writing lesson, we had a go at beginning the story to beauty and the beast in the 6 different ways and chose our favourites. Miss Park collated them together for display as she was so impressed! We then started our own Christmas themed story using one of the 6 techniques and passed it on in a circle to continue the story around the room. We can’t wait to read how our story ended up and discuss what happens if we don’t have a clear plan and if different people have an in put.

Homework is due Friday 30th of November. You must bring your grid signed and dated to receive your points! Our new grid will be out for the month of December 🎅.  Bring in any written homework to show or share each Monday morning to receive your dojo class points. You can complete one activity per week. Grids will be collected before Christmas to receive your house points!

Friday 30th November is St Andrews Day. Children must bring in a PE kit (or wear this to school) as we are taking part in a military fitness course. Children are more than welcome to wear tartan of some sort to celebrate St Andrews day and our theme of the day will be Scotland.

We have been creating top tips posters about the methods of addition we have learned so far: partitioning, doubles, near doubles and making tens. We have included the method name, explanations from each member of how to apply this method, examples ranging from simple to more complicated versions and word problems to include problem solving. We are going to present these to the class tomorrow. These will be on our wall display to help each other.

We have been learning a new layout for predicting what might happen in a text when a chapter has been left on a cliff hanger. We have been using our prior knowledge about characters and the story line to guess what could happen next. We were drawing a crystal ball to show a picture of what might be happening next with an explanation underneath and justifying our guess.