Numeracy
We have been leaning to add, subtract and multiply with decimals. One of the most important rules is to keep your decimal points in a straight line; this helps you put all the digits in the correct columns! You can practise your times tables to help with your multiplication.

Ideas for further practise at home:

• Practice making your own sums – just be sure to include DECIMAL POINTS and some really tricky numbers. E.g. 567.42 – 74.189 or   335 – 6
• https://www.mathsisfun.com/adding-decimals.html
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/ma13tabl-game-tables-grid-find
• http://resources.oswego.org/games/Ghostblasters1/gbcd.html

Literacy
Reading: Reading with expression and understanding – Can you read an extract of a book at home to an audience (of any size)?  Remember to read the punctuation too!
Writing: Fantasy Story – Main characters, real world and fantasy world setting and a trigger in the real world to take you to the fantasy world. Don’t forget to include paragraphs!

Spelling: Soft c sound (after e, i or y) celebrate, incident or literacy

Ideas for further practise at home:

• Practise reading to someone at home being sure to add expression to help make it interesting.
• Create your own fantasy story where the characters have a problems the need to solve before travelling back to the real world.
• Think of some words with the soft c sound in them. You can practise these in pyramid, rainbow or fancy writing.
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/spellits/activities_y5/activity3.shtml

IDL

Japan topic – looking at life in Japan

Ideas for further practise at home:

• Create a bar graph of the populations for Japan’s 5 largest cities. (Rounded)
• Investigate what school is like in Japan.
• Can you play a Japanese game with someone at home?
• http://www.citymayors.com/gratis/japanese_cities.html
• http://www.citypopulation.de/Japan-Cities.html

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

A delicious Japanese curry all the way from Cumbernauld courtesy of Samuel who described how he made it – including marinating the beef for 3hrs!

Primary Seven pupils will be going to Greenfaulds High School for the first event of their Transition Project. We will be leaving Woodlands together so come to school as normal and should be back in time for lunch.

This is sushi with a difference…sweetie sushi! Made with Rice Krispies and mallow as well as some interesting additions. What an innovative homework idea Katie!

This is one of the pictures we have in our heads when we are reading our book. The descriptive words from the text help us to see this in our minds!

Primary 2 showed us how to play a Japanese game called Jan Ken Poi. It is the Japanese version of Rock Paper Scissors. Why not try it at home to see who’s going to do the washing up?

Ask us at home to show you how to multiply with decimals!

We have been working on our attacking and defending skills in basketball. We are also beginning to score more goals!

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.