This morning was the Macmillan Coffee morning and the Primary 7s made an excellent contribution.

First we made Ginger and Orange Jam and then created recipe cards and designed labels.

On the day of the coffee morning, we practiced our waiter and waitress skills by welcoming people, taking orders, making drinks, fetching cakes and clearing up.

At the end the P7s even got a cake!

We have also been creating lichenstein art. We made our own version of the teachers! see if you can spot some of them!

Finally, it was a sad week as someone in the class is moving to England! However we had a great party to say goodbye and GOOD LUCK! we will miss you

For our house assembly we have been creating banners to get our houses excited.

We have also been creating and applying in ICT. We have been applying what we have learned about designing menus to our learning about French food to create a French menu!

We also had a special nature visit today! We were learning about pine martins, badgers, foxes and roe deer. All of these animals live in Cumbernauld and we were learning about how to identify them.

In P.E. we were learning to catch and pass balls without looking. This is hard at first but after some practice we were able to catch the ball with our eyes closed.

Finally, in maths we are applying what we have learned about adding and subtracting decimals to money. We are designing our own shops with prices and creating shopping lists for our partner. They will then have to add and subtract decimal numbers (money) to work out the answer.

Homework for week beginning 27.9.16

Literacy

For writing this week, we are going to be creating instructions and persuasive food packaging for jam. This is also going to be linked to the Macmillan coffee morning on Friday morning. We will be making jam in class to use during the coffee morning.

For homework

• Research a jam recipe online, print it or write it down and bring it in by tomorrow. Any type of jam is fine, but make sure you record all the ingredients and weights and the specific instructions.
• Design your own packaging for “WOODLANDS JAM”. Make up your own name, logo, tagline and colour scheme.

Reading – make sure you have fully read up to the pages

• comma – Pg 101
• Verbs – Pg 91
• Nouns – Pg 127

Maths

To apply what we have been learning about adding decimals, we are going to be shopping! This means that we have to add the decimal numbers together by using number bonds we know and by looking for doubles.

For homework,

• Design your own shop in your house. Choose items to sell and make a price list, then pretend to be a shop keeper with your friends or family.
• Go online shopping – find the cheapest price you can for the following items.
  • Loaf of Hovis white bread.
  • 2L of full fat milk
  • Tub of Haagen Dazs Pralines and cream
  • A bag of pink lady apples
  • 500g chicken breast
  • Pack of 8 bacon rashers.
  • 500g bag of frozen peas.
• Add up the total cost of the items – is it less than £10?

HWB

We are learning about different fitness exercises and how to perform the proper technique. For homework

• Design your own fitness circuit or class. Make sure to include how long you have to perform the activity for, how long rest you get in between activities and a diagram to show correct technique. Pretend to be a fitness instructor and give someone at home a workout.

We had a super busy day at school today!

Firstly, we had some amazing homework!

Then we explained what we have learned this week in school. We have made a huge improvement in our learning logs so far this year by including more detail and our own thoughts.

Today we focused on including real life examples of the skill we were learning.

To practice our number bonds, we were playing a game called “wild west”. We had to shoot number bonds at each other and then our partner had to shoot them back at us.

we also used our number bonds to create posters for our maths wall and to create maths board games.

IMPORTANT NOTICE! – Mr McMullan is looking for empty jars – any size. If you can keep an eye out in your kitchen for any clean, empty jars, that would be EPIC!

This morning we were learning to add decimals.

Top Tips for doing this are to look for number bonds and doubles. Then match the numbers together and tick them off the list.

We were playing bowling with decimals scores on each skittle!

In PE we were working on our technique and improving our fitness.

We started with a circuit outside and then moved to the gym hall to run a fitness circuit.

We were then applying what we learned about organising questions yesterday to creating questions about our reading books.

Yesterday we were planning the Eco active day which takes place at the end of September.

The house captains were also counting the house points. They were also encouraging and supporting the Vice house captain nominees in their application and speeches.

In maths, we were applying what we have already learned about 2D regular and irregular shapes to help us create something new – an insect diagram.

In P.E. we were learning about marking in football.

In maths today we continued to recap our number bonds and applied them to decimals on the giant ipad.

Homework for week beginning 19^th september

IDL

Continued from last week – make a costume for our assembly on insects.

House homework competition

Design a coat of arms for your house with

• An animal
• An inspirational person
• A food
• Something to help you learn
• A motto.

Road safety homework (optional)

Design a picture for a road safety calendar. Take a piece of blank paper from the tray for this. Don’t write your name on the work.

Maths

We are continuing our number bonds to 1, 10, 20 100 etc.

Play these games

• http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=dartboardcentretotal
• http://www.mathplayground.com/number_bonds_decimals.html

or Make up a number bond quiz with 10 questions to swap with a partner.

Language

We are exploring different types of questions – literal, inferential and evaluative. Literal is a question that asks about the process of what happened. Inferential questions are where you need to read between the lines and work out some extra information. Evaluative questions are where you need to evaluate and give your opinion

For homework

• Interview a member of your family or friend about their life – include all three types of questions
• Write an interview for a celebrity including all three types of questions

This morning we were creating and applying using our knowledge of decimals and number bonds.

We created zoom number lines for decimals by folding paper.

We applied our decimal knowledge and our number bonds to games of yahtzee and computer games.

We were also editing our stories by removing words that weren’t important.

Finally, we were applying our previous learning about internet research skills and inserting tables to our new topic of insects.

This morning we finalised the planning part of our Roald Dahl story for the competition.

We have been editing our story by removing unnecessary words also.

Can you Edit this passage to make it shorter, but keep all the important information?

“Mr Twit was wandering down the long, steep street to meet his ugly, horrible, smelly wife. She was wearing a dark brown old coat and was carrying a cane. She is a horrible person!”

leave your answers in the comments below.

In P.E. we are improving our technique for different fitness activities, including squat, plank, lunges, burpees.

We did a brutal fitness circuit which helped us improve our technique and made us fitter!

Today was Roald Dahl Day.

We are writing stories for a Roald Dahl competition and we continued working on these today by editing our writing to make it as few words as possible so that we don’t go over the 250 word limit.

We had some excellent costumes today!

We had a lot of Matildas

And her friend Lavendar

A Veruca Salt

A Miss Honey

A George

Some Charlies

A fox

A Grand Master Witch

A Sophie

For news some of us even turned into Mr Twit