We are learning about money; knowing notes and coins, counting amounts and giving change.
Today each table invented a shop and had fun pricing goods, buying and selling and giving change.
We had two bookshops, a sweetie shop and a second hand tech shop!
We had a lovely time making pancakes today for Shrove Tuesday. A huge thank you to Mrs Martin for helping us and Celeste’s chickens for supplying the eggs!
Something a little different this week…
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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.
| due 4th March | Design a new front cover, blurb and give the book a new title. Try to entice new readers to read the book , but don’t give too much away! |
| due 11th March | Adjectives. Find 6 adjectives from the book and replace them with similar words. Write the new sentences and underline the adjective. (You can use a thesaurus to help you if you want). |
| due 18th March | Sequencing. Chose 5 events from the story and muddle up the order in which they happened. Challenge someone in your group to put them in the correct sequence. |
| due 25th March | Connections and similarities. Write about a person, book, place or event that is similar to those from your book. |
| due 1st April | April Fool’s Day! If you could play a trick on one of the characters, what would you do? Don’t be too cruel, remember.
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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.
| cloth | cloths | clothes | clothing | clothed | clothesline |
| three | threes | threesome | threefold | threesome | threefold |
| throb | throbs | throbbing | throbbed | heartthrob | heartthrobs |
| throw | throws | throwing | thrower | thrown | throwback |
| length | lengths | lengthen | lengthened | lengthening | wavelength |
| health | healthy | unhealthy | healthier | healthiest | healthcare |
| white | whites | whiten | whitest | whiteboard | whitening |
| wheel | wheels | wheelie | wheeling | cartwheel | wheelbarrow |
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