I loved doing the skeleton 😁🧐🤓🥳🤯😶😷😈💩👻💀☠️👽😸🙀🙌🏿🤲🏿😹🤖🎃😺😥😖👌😄🤣🧇😂😄🧇

Your enchanted wood picture should have:

1 Magic Faraway Tree

2 different types of flowers

3 children

4 woodland animals

5 magic fairy folk

6 toadstools

I loved the trip to the river tweed

Nice to see them getting a chance to be physical and hammer a messy pumpkin! Gracie told us about this at home. Liking the blog and getting a chance to see some pictures.

We were inspired by P5’s Kindness Boomerang video and came up with our own ‘chain of kindness’. When someone is kind or helpful we add a link to our paperchain. We’re hoping it will soon reach across the classroom!

We’ve had lots of fun with fireworks this week. We designed rockets and fireworks with 2D shapes. We then painted these onto our black fabric with acrylic paints for the virtual fireworks display. We were so excited to see all of the brilliant banners in the field! We learned about why we celebrate Bonfire Night, who Guy Fawkes was and why put him on the bonfire! We also had a chat about bonfire, firework and sparkler safety.

In numeracy we’ve been doing lots of addition, this week focusing on the add (+) and equals (=) signs. In class we’ve been adding frogs on logs and outside we’ve been adding whatever we could find! We’re still practising our numbers in lots of different ways  and trying to make sure they all face the correct way.

In phonics this week we’ve learned the z and v sound, making a zebra and a vase. We’re continuing to put all of our sounds together to make short words and are starting to write short sentences, practising tricky words like ‘the’.

Our black pen picture and writing this week had the title ‘Cold Hands’. We’re concentrating on getting the detail in our facial expressions and our hands, and we wrote stories about a time that we had cold hands.

This week me and a partner wrote a information report on the skeleton. We had to watch videos and search for information about the bones and then we could write.😁

This week we enjoyed working together to create part of the Kingsland Virtual Firework Display. The finished display looks great.  Well done everyone.

We are looking forward to creating our page for the Kingsland calendar next week. If you are out and about this weekend P6b take some pictures of the bridges we have been talking about to help us create our page.

P7A are so pleased with how our Wonder Wall turned out. We have been reading the novel Wonder by R.J. Palacio and used the Sketches App on our iPads to create our own self portraits like the ones in the book.  Do you recognise anyone?

We also linked the themes in the book to our work in class on Being Kind to Others from the Building Resilience programme. We each wrote a message about kindness which can be seen here and in our classroom.
Our thanks go to Mrs Ryalls for displaying our work so effectively.

Mrs Ryalls has created this beautiful display for our Haunted Houses.  Thank you.

We were working on nets of 3D shapes and built dodecahedrons, triangular and square based pyramids, triangular prisms, cubes, cuboids and pentagonal prisms.  Sam created a rhombus prism.

In Science we learned the proper names for the bones of the Skeleton, a few examples are:phalanges for fingers and toes, pelvis, cranium for skull, carpals and metacarpals for the wrist and hand and tibia one of the lower leg bones.

We were given the month of August for the School Calendar and we have started making a collage of the school building for Back To School.  We are looking forward to seeing the finished product.

In numeracy we have been learning different strategies to help with multiplication:  16 x 35 – we would half 16 and double 35 to help us make the calculation 8 x 70;  to multiply by 25 we multiply by 100 then half the answer and it again.

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We were delighted to get some new playground toys this week and this extra long skipping rope as been a big hit! Thank you Mrs Wilson!

So what else have we done this week?

• Multiplying and Dividing Decimals
• More long /o/ sounds in spelling
• Information Reports on Remembrance Day
• Fireworks banner
• Working on our calendar page collage
• Drug and alcohol awareness continued
• Be kind to others – thinking of ways we can brighten someone’s day and adding to our ‘Giving Tree’
• Scale drawings of more complex shapes

Questions to think about:

1. What did you try really hard with this week?
2. What would you do differently if you had a chance?
3. Can you think of a time this week when you have shown kindness to others?