Today we used two different sources to find information about schools in Japan. We took notes and categorised the information we found.

Numeracy
We have been leaning to multiply decimal numbers by 10. Remember when multiplying decimal numbers by 10 the DECIMAL POINT stays in the same place and the DIGITS move one place to the LEFT! We have also been learning how to divide with decimal numbers. Knowing all of your times tables will help when you are completing your division.

Ideas for further practise at home:

• Write your own division sums e.g. 1891.2 ÷ 8, 3325.2 ÷ 6 or 7330.5 ÷ 9
• Time yourself to see how quickly you can multiply 5 decimal numbers by 10 – Can you improve your best time?
• http://www.fun4thebrain.com/Division/luckydiv.html (for general division practise)
• http://www.fun4thebrain.com/Division/dinoDigDiv.html (for general division practise)

Literacy
Reading: Metalinguistic Strategies (strategies to help find the meanings of words you don’t know)
Writing: Grammar – Revising the use of speech marks to show direct speech. Try writing a part of a story which includes direct speech. Remember to take a new line for a new speaker!

Spelling: Soft g sound (after e, i or y) generosity, sergeant, engine and gym

Ideas for further practise at home:

• Choose an article from a newspaper or magazine and identify a word you DO NOT know the meaning of. Choose an appropriate strategy to help you work out what the word means: Sounds like a word you know, Break it up into parts and see if you recognise any parts, Find the root of a word, Read it in context (reading sentences before and after the word) or Use the index (if there is one) Afterwards check the meaning to see how accurate you were.

• Choose 10 ‘soft g’ words and write a short paragraph being sure to include all of them. Ask an adult to check the spelling of ALL words but particularly the ‘soft g’ words.
• http://www.spellzone.com/games/bouncing_anagram/index.cfm?wordlist=877&speed=2 (for ‘soft c’ and ‘soft g’ revision)

IDL

Japan topic – tsunamis and earthquakes

Ideas for further practise at home:

• Investigate the last major tsunami or earthquake in Japan
• Create a model of a Japanese house that will withstand a tsunami in the classroom

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

We revised our knowledge of direct speech making sure we knew where to put the punctuation as well as what punctuation we could use.

We worked together to find ways to stay safe online.

Good luck to our ten Primary Seven pupils taking part in this year’s Cross Country event at the high school. Pupils from all six schools will be racing together Thursday morning – if it’s not too wet! Come on Woodlands!

Today we learnd about the soft g sound and included some examples that we thought of on our own.

In class we created flow charts to help show some information from one of our books and to review the learning we did this week.

We have been putting our research skills to good use this afternoon when we were comparing Scotland and Japan.

Primary Seven enjoyed their first visit to high school where they learned about children’s rights alongside Primary Sevens from five other schools. It was a very busy morning!

Test us to see if we can multiply a decimal number by 10!