We have been writing recounts about being an astronaut and this week we had to describe what life is like living in space.  We watched a clip made by some real astronauts on the International Space Station and then got to try some freeze dried food, similar to things the astronauts might eat.

The food felt very light and powdery and didn’t have much smell.  Some of us were worried that it might not taste very nice but we were surprised when the ice-cream actually tasted like ice-cream and the cinnamon apple tasted just like an apple with cinnamon on it!

Doing this research was fun and helped us with our writing!

We have been wrapped up warm this week in P7B and we have been enjoying our turn in the MUGA.

In maths we have been continuing to practise our division skills and have had a look at word problems. We had the opportunity to create our own surveys in data handling and worked with a partner to collect and collate information. Some of the topics we surveyed included favourite breakfast options, favourite pizza topping and height. Then we had to create our own graphs and charts using the data that we gathered.

We also revisited co-ordinates and completed some Christmas co-ordinate challenges.

In writing, we wrote our final Information Report on Amazonian tribes and focused on the long i sound in spelling. We continued to read non-fiction texts and developed our group work skills as worked with others to share our learning. We have been creating our own pages of the book and creating questions for our group members to answer.

During our Prefect Break last week, a few children from P7A and P7B very kindly made us an Advent Calendar. There is a Christmas activity hidden under each door and we have also been enjoying a Christmas story each day.

Everyone has been busy creating new decorations to be hung around the school and in our classroom. They look beautiful!

Consider the questions below and post your response:

1. What was your favourite activity this week? What did you enjoy about it?

2. What did you find most challenging? How did you overcome this difficulty?

3. What activity are you most looking forward to in December ? Is there anything in particular you would like to do in school?

Literacy

In writing we continued exploring recount. We recounted a trip to Grandpa’s farm and playing by the big tree.

Grammar: we revisited nouns, identifying them in sentences making sentence from a given noun and using them in blether  stations.

Reading: ORT we developed skills of making connections between the book and our own experiences.  PM reading we developed the skills of reading for information.

Rhyme and analogy this week we focused on rhyming sounds op and ay.

Weekly phonic: or.

Numeracy and Maths

In Numeracy we explored odd and even numbers and the numbers before and after, and in between given numbers.

In maths we explored 2D shapes.

Topic

We explored how day and night changes with the seasons and how this comes about

French

We explored colours and seasons this week in French.

Novel study:

We explored the 3 little pigs story and recreated their houses.

We have had a very busy week.

We have been enjoying being challenged with our numbers this week and we are now working with numbers to 100. We have been learning some strategies for using our 100 square and working out our answers a lot faster.

In HWB we are continuing to explore what makes us unique because some of us found this a tricky word to say and understand. We liked painting a self portrait, looking in the mirror to help us  and it was great fun mixing the skin colour for our face and neck. We are not quite finished our self portraits but, we are looking forward to seeing them finished and posting them on our Blog page.

We are still having fun exploring Night and Day in our topic work. We discovered that a rotation of the Earth around the Sun causes night and day, a revolution of the earth around the Sun takes 365 days or 366 days in a Leap year. This causes the Seasons.

It also takes around 27 days for the Moon to be seen in all it’s phases. Many of us are enjoying completing our homework sheet andwe have been discussing the fact that on cloudy nights we cannot see the Moon to record on our sheet.

In class we took a little quiet time to do some Cosmic Yoga Kids with Jamie. We really enjoyed her Moon story and we felt so calm when we were doing the yoga.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and enjoy your extra day to celebrate St Andrew’s Day !

This week we continued to research the planets in our Solar System and we made a wall display. We are learning how to take notes as we listen, and this helps us to remember facts.

We used chalk pastels to make these planets pictures. We smudged the colours and used black and white to shade the dark and light sides.

Also on the theme of planets our classroom order arrived and it included these inflatable planets!

In writing we wrote a recount of a trip and in health and well-being we looked at changing emotions and then the rights of the child.

In maths we linked multiplication to division and noticed that a number family has 4 facts. We are still learning how to plot coordinates and draw symmetrical patterns.

Our drama time is all about preparing our mission to Space, and this week we worked in our teams to plan a training programme for astronauts.

Have a great long weekend for St. Andrew’s Day!

Among this week’s highlights for P7A were making story cubes for the P1s, creating rainforest animals out of clay and our Prefect Break where superb sporting attitudes were demonstrated by all participants.

What was your best bit of the week?

What are you looking forward to next week?

What a great week….

-We have been learning about the animals which live in the emergent layer in the amazon rainforest. We made creative posters to display our knowledge.

-We drew animals using tutorial videos to add to our rainforest display.

-We continued to learn about multiplication. We looked at three written strategies to support with this.

-We though about the important relationships in our lives and the importance of keeping connected to the important people in our lives.

What have you enjoyed this week and why?