Today the SSPCA came to talk to us about the different kinds of animals they rescue and the commitments of having pets. We found out some pets need more care than others and if you get a tortoise it could live until it’s 80!

Primary Seven researched Japan’s major cities and the regions they fall into.

We have been learning about Japan and its landscape. We chose an area of interest to research and created a poster showing the information we found. 

Today in French we were making a PowerPoint about our holidays…….pendant les vacances…..Why not ask us what French words we know and see if we can have a conversation in French?

Numeracy
We have been leaning about place value (the value of each digit within a number e.g. 255 = 2 hundreds, 5 tens and 5 units or 200 + 50 + 5) with large numbers into millions. Also squared numbers e.g.  (is the same as 9 x 9) = 81

Ideas for further practise at home:

• Reading and writing large numbers that you see and hear in the news and media – including house prices and football transfer amounts. E.g. £6.5 million
• http://www.softschools.com/math/place_value/teaching_place_value/
• http://www.math-play.com/Place-Value-Millionaire/play.swf

Literacy
Reading: Visualisation (visualising a scene from a text using its descriptive words to help create a picture.)
Writing: Leaflets – Main heading, sub-headings, categorised information and related pictures

Spelling: Contractions (There is = there’s, they will = they’ll, will not = won’t…)

Ideas for further practise at home:

• Try creating a visualisation for a book you are reading at home. (Remember to include the exact word from the text!)
• Create an information leaflet for a place you like to go.
• Highlight contractions you have found in a magazine.
• http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/match/matchgeneric.asp?filename=jwildecontractions
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/en29punc-game-beat-the-clock-apostrophes

IDL

Japan topic – looking at life in Japan, its landscape and traditional Japanese artwork

Ideas for further practise at home:

• Show someone where to find Japan on an atlas or globe.
• Find out how long it would take to fly to Tokyo.
• Research some of Japan’s favourite foods.
• http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/

Remember you can use your thinking jotter to record any thoughts or ideas you have when looking at these topics and I would love to see anything you create at home!

Mrs Park