This afternoon after working so hard on our similes and metaphors then our rangoli patterns, we had great fun eating from the Witch’s Washing Line.  Some children managed to bite their donut in one clean bite!!

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This morning we planned then wrote our very own thriller stories about two children getting lost in the woods and they find something or overhear something that leads them to danger…

The children thought it was hard but great fun writing their very first thrillers.  They are looking forward to writing another thriller next week.

This morning we completed a reading comprehension on the Human Ear.  We were encouraged to skim and scan the passage and diagram quickly to get the  main ideas then we read the text again more slowly.

This afternoon we labelled a diagram of the ear.  We had to label our diagram to explain the different parts of our ear.

In Maths we have looked at rounding and estimating.

This is the amount of goals that a footballer scores in one season.

• Round these scores to the nearest 10 goals:

This is the amount of skips P5 achieved in one minute during the sponsored skip.

• Round these scores to the nearest 100:

Now try this:

Roll the three dice and make a three digit number

For example: 636.

Round the number to the nearest 100 and repeat.

Write down the ages of everyone in your family, then estimate their total age to the nearest 10.

Literacy

• We have been learning more about speech marks. Use this link to find three different activities for the children to choose from:http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/speechmarks.htm
• Here are some other websites to help you learn more about speech marks:

http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacy/lit_site/lit_sites/speech_marks/

http://mrcrammond.com/games/literacy/dont_use_said.swf

https://www.studyladder.co.uk/games/activity/quotation-marks-19072?lc_set=

Halloween’s Coming….

• Interview family and friends. Find out what types of things they did when they were children for Halloween.  Can they remember any songs, rhymes or poems they were taught?
• Use the internet, to research Halloween. Think about – Why do we celebrate Halloween? Halloween Customs and Traditions, Halloween Superstitions and Fascinating Facts About Halloween.  You could present your research as a power point or in your homework jotter.
• Will you be guising at Halloween or perhaps going to a Halloween disco? Prepare your costume and make sure you can tell a joke, do a dance, sing a song or recite a poem.

This morning we used Education City to learn more about rounding.  We also used top marks website.  This helped us to prepare for our assessment on rounding after playtime.

This afternoon we looked at how Sound travels.  We found out that Sound travel best through a solid because the particles are closest together, then through a liquid and travels least of all through the air.    Children acted out as the particles in a solid, liquid and gas.

Have a look at our photographs can you work out what on demonstrates a solid, a liquid and a gas?

Literacy:  Revision of commas in a list and using a colon to introduce a list.

Write these lists out using commas and colons where appropriate.

1. Robert got his bat and ball. He put it in his bag along with his trainers and his shorts and his T-shirt.
2. Susan tidied up the garden. She put the rake and the spade and the hose in the shed. She put the wheelbarrow and the bike and the pool in the garage.
3. Joe loved to go to the park with his friends Tanya and Jason and Fiona and Colin.
4. The dinner ladies make delicious meal like pizza and spag bol and chicken tikka wraps and curry and macaroni.
5. For his birthday, Callum got new football boots and a jumper and a computer game and a box of celebration chocolates.
6. The teachers were very good at the hoola-hoop especially Mrs McMillan and Mrs Tagg and Miss Park and Miss Donald.

Maths:  Rounding to the nearest 10

1. 23 2. 54                    3. 67                     4. 82           5. 49                     6. 72           7. 76           8. 34          9. 89           10. 12                 11. 41                           12. 55               13. 78                  14. 94                            15. 77                 16. 43                  17. 27                  18. 95                  19. 32                 20. 29

or

1. 265
2. 315
3. 45
4. 694
5. 301
6. 655
7. 745
8. 781
9. 423
10. 381

Now try this:

Roll two dice and make a two digit number

For example: 63.

Round the number to the nearest 10 and repeat.

or

Roll the three dice and make a three digit number

For example: 636.

Round the number to the nearest 10 and repeat.

French:

Research 5 French boys’ names and 5 French girls’ name.  Give each child an age.  Practise spelling out the French names and saying the child’s age in French.  Use the French alphabet sheet to help you but remember to bring it back to school.

Jotter Check in for Table 1 on Friday 14^th October- thanks!

This afternoon we were given a new French name and age.  We then met other new French children and asked them their name, how to spell it and their age. Altogether we met with four pretend French children.

Remember:

1. PE kits tomorrow- slight change to the timetable just for this week.
2. Anyone who hasn’t brought their homework in for Miss Ferguson must bring it tomorrow.
3. Anyone who has brought back their target jotter, bring it in tomorrow to get a house point.

This afternoon we were practising spelling our names using the French alphabet.  We thought the vowels were the trickiest letters.  We used our French display,  a little French song  and practised with our partner.

This morning in ICT we continued to work on our power point presentations on the Five Pillars of Islam.  Our PowerPoints will be used to demonstrate all we have learned about the Five Pillars of Islam.  Our success criteria was:

1. front page with title, image and names of authors,
2. introducation to the five pillars
3. a page each on Shahadah, Salah, Zakah, Sawm and Hajj with explanation and image
4. a quiz for the person reading the presentation.

Don’t forget: big tables test tomorrow. Practise, practise, practise!!!!!