Something a little different this week…

Write a brief postcard style note to Mrs Little telling her about your week.  Think about:

• What was your favourite lesson/task?
• What have you improved on?
• What did you enjoy most?
• When did you enjoy success?
• What are you most proud of?
• What could you have done better?
• What funny thing happened?

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P5 Reading Homework

You have 5 weeks to read your novel at home and complete the following tasks on your iPad or on paper. Look at how many chapters there are and plan your reading time by splitting the book into chunks. Be prepared to send/show your homework to your teacher by Friday.

It was an interesting first week back, as we met our new head teacher, Mrs Strathearn, had a very snowy day and saw all our friends again after the holiday.

Our learning in reading was non fiction texts. We identified the differences between fiction and non fiction texts, and how the features help us to find the information we need.

In writing we are learning about the purpose and features of information reports before we write our own.

Next Thursday is World Book Day so we are making a class book about our favourite books, to share with our partner school in Nepal.

In maths we have been adding and rounding decimals, and will be applying what we know about decimal places in our next topic, money. We have also learned about grams and kilograms and will be weighing food items.

Our topic on the layers of the Earth led us to look at earthquakes. We have found where in the world the fault lines are.

Tuesday was Thinking Day and here are our Brownies and Cubs in their uniforms.

Here is a round-up of this week’s activities:

A big thank you to our ‘Star Baker’, Anna, who baked us some delicious cakes using Fairtrade ingredients at home! We will post some more of our Fairtrade learning at the end of Fairtrade Fortnight next week.

This week we have started learning about tsunamis. We watched some videos and looked at websites, books and powerpoints about what causes tsunamis and the impact they can have on both humans and the environment. We then took this information and added extra pages to our Natural Disasters Book on Book Creator.

In writing we have just finished some terrific reports on earthquakes and we also made a start on our tsunamis one. We also focussed on adding diagrams to our work and discussed how to make these look scientific with the use of labels, ruler work and accurate pencil work.

In maths we have finished our block on division and next week we will be moving on to look at fractions as well as data handling.

In our health lessons we have been talking about consent and how we are the boss of our bodies. We looked at different scenarios and discussed what to do in these cases to keep ourselves safe. A big message from these lessons was to always tell a trusted adult if our ‘belly voice’ (the feeling in our tummies) tells us that something doesn’t feel right.

In art we have started some beautiful work on tsunamis and will finish these off next week. We will post photos up when they are finished.

We have had a great week and are looking forward to World Book Day next Thursday and the fun activities that have been planned.

We played games and rhythms and learned about a Brazilian instrument.  Each week we are improving concentration, following instruments and, most of all, playing together as a band.

Congratulations Orla, for being drummer of the week.

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Week 4 of our big drum adventure and our band has learned how to start and stop playing all together at the same time! Mat gives us a count of 4 so we know when to start and stop playing.

A big well done to Rory who was our drummer of the week!

As part of our topic about natural disasters, we have been looking at the different layers of the Earth and how the crust is divided into different tectonic plates.  We used crackers to represent the plates and red icing for the mantle to show how the plates move against each other.

When the plates move apart (divergent) molten rock erupts creating new crust.

When the plates crash together (convergent) new mountains can be formed.

When the plates slide past each other (transform) they create earthquakes.