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!!!!!

This morning Mr McCrae, a music teacher, joined us from Greenfaulds High school.  He demonstrated his playing of a trombone and asked if any P6 would like to get brass tuition. He’s coming back next Wednesday  to give out information letters and applications forms to those pupils interested.

This afternoon we had to do our PE outside. First of all we had a go at our first orienteering course. We had to stay with our partners, use a map to locate letters placed around the school then collect all of the letters. We then had to unscramble the letters to make a word which was WOODLANDS. After orienteering, we played capture the flag which really got our hear eat up too.

This morning we had our final session with Cumbernauld Living Landscape.  We were learning about how animal friendly our school grounds are.  Tracey from Cumbernauld Landscape told us that “Woodlands have one of the best animal friendly school grounds in the whole of Cumbernauld!” This was because of our hedgehog hotel, bug hotels, beehive, wormery, pond, bird boxes, gaps under our fences as well as the long grass, trees and berries.

Homework W/B 3^rd October 2016

Literacy:  Revision of nouns, verbs and adjectives.

• Write this sentence out in your jotter. Underline the verb, put a circle around the noun.

The cat sat on the mat.

• Write this sentence out again this time change the noun or verb or add an adjective to change it.

The sad cat sat on the mat.

The cat sat on the wet mat.

The cat slept on the mat.

Can you make up at least 10 different sentences?

Maths:  Practice your times tables.  Everyone knows what times tables they have to cover.  On Friday 7th October, we will have a tables test.  Here are some websites to help you practice or you can make the TGTs we made in class.  Please record in your homework jotter how you prefer to practice your tables, the websites you visit or if you find a really useful website also write it down in your jotter for others to try.

Here are some website that may help:

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/multiplication-and-division

http://www.teachingtables.co.uk/

http://www.what2learn.com/home/examgames/maths/subtraction/

http://www.mad4maths.com/multiplication_table_math_games/

French:

Complete the Salut French sheet.  It looks at different ways to say hello, goodbye, how are you?

Practice you French with someone at home by having a conversation.  Use the phrases on the sheet to help you with your conversation.  Remember you may need to be the expert and teach the other person how to say the French phrases.

Jotter Check in for Table 2 on Friday 7^th October- Merci!

Wow!! Have a look at our very own musical instruments. They were all fantastic.  Some people are going to bring theirs in tomorrow.

This morning we were building on our previous work on using commas in a list. Today we were learning to put a colon that looks like this : at the beginning of a list. The colon introduces the list and goes in front of the first item on the list.

Don’t forget: tomorrow we continue our work with Cumbernauld Living Landscapes.  The weather forecast is good but you’ll still need a warm jacket and wellies or shoes you don’t mind getting muddy.

This morning we continued our work on speech marks.  Everyone is making good progress and some people used very impressive powerful verbs for said like: murmured, uttered, screamed and yelled.  We also revised some greeting in French.

Have a good weekend and I am so looking forward to seeing and hearing all your home made musical instruments on Monday (as part of this weeks homework). 🎼🎤🎸🎻🎺🎷🎧.