I think frozen 2 because it’s cool and better for younger children.

We’ve been working hard again in P7A this week.  A big part of our time was taken up doing research into the charity Social Bite and then writing an Information Report on it.

In spelling, we have studied words with qu in them – and discovered that queueing has a lot of vowels in a row!

We have been doing a lot with fractions this week – adding them, subtracting them, simplifying them and finding equivalent fractions.

Having finished the novel Wonder we have been enjoying the bonus story told from Julian’s point of view – it has helped us see that there are two sides to every story.

We enjoyed the virtual assembly on Saint Andrew’s Day and especially liked the short film of the little bird.

We were asked to help create some Christmas decorations for the hall so created some lovely festive Christmas jumper designs to spell out a seasonal message for everyone at Kingsland.

Reflection:

1. On which task did you tried your hardest this week?
2. What do you need to work on for next week?
3. What theme do you think we should pick to decorate our classroom door?

This week our highlights have been –

• Information reports on Social Bite
• Creating bar models to help us with our fractions
• Doing our Christmas display for Mrs Ryalls
• Making heathy eating adverts using drama
• Testing ear protectors in science
• Creating line graphs for the average temperature in our favourite place in the world

Review your week using these questions –

1. What bit of learning was most valuable?

2. What learning do you want to do more of?

3. What did you most enjoy doing?

4. What global goals did you learn about this week?

One of our activities in the last week of term will be a movie afternoon as a way of saying thank-you to you all for your hard work.

The film has to be rated U and available on DVD to play on the smart-board.

Can you recommend a good film for the class to watch. Please justify your choice.

This week we have been learning about Thanksgiving. We have written excellent reports and created posters to display our learning. Look out for pictures of our completed posters next week.

We created paper turkeys and thought about the things we are thankful for in our own lives.

This week we have been learning about Thanksgiving. We have written excellent reports and created posters to display our learning. Look out for pictures of our completed posters next week.

We created paper turkeys and thought about the things we are thankful for in our own lives.

This week we have been learning about the celebration of Thanksgiving. We collected lots of information on the celebration and created information reports based on this.

In Health and Wellbeing we have been talking about kindness and this week we focussed on what we are grateful for. We made turkeys and used the feathers to say who we are thankful for.

Turkeys

One of our activities in the last week of term will be a movie afternoon as a way of saying thank-you to you all for your hard work.

The film has to be rated U and available on DVD to play on the smartboard.

Can you recommend a good film for the class to watch. Please justify your choice.

We have researched and taken notes on the Muscles in the human body.  We then used our notes to create an Information Report.

We finished our novel Holes and the movie Holes and compared the two.

In numeracy we are still trying to get quicker at recalling our times tables and used this knowledge in long multiplication sums.

Some of us brushed up on our European facts ready for the Euro Quiz team selection.

We have continued to study how to keep safe on line.

What has been your

Enjoy our St Andrew’s Day holiday on Monday.

Both classes have been creating Christmas display pictures for the dining hall.

P7B looked for inspiration online and decided on a silhouette landscape picture. We split into our table group bubbles and delegated tasks for the project. Here are the jobs we did –

• Drawing, painting and glittering stars
• Colour mixing and sponging the background
• Colour mixing and sponging the moon
• Drawing and cutting the tree silhouettes
• Drawing and cutting the reindeer silhouettes
• Drawing and painting Christmas lights (we decided not to use these in the end as we thought it looked better without)

We think you will agree that Oliver R did an amazing job drawing Santa’s sleigh – free hand!

P7A decided on a Christmas Jumper theme for our display board.  Each of us worked on a different jumper with a letter ‘stitched’ into the design so that together we could spell our a message.  We wanted to keep all the letters uniform so the message could be read when the display was completed and this was the trickiest part.  This is how we did it:

1. First we traced a pattern for each letter from squared paper onto tracing paper.
2. Then we drew the outline of our jumper on red, green or blue paper.
3. Next we transferred the letter design from the trace to the jumper.
4. After that we had to add the ‘stitches’ to the design using oil pastels.  We wanted the letters to look like they had been knitted so made each stitch in a V shape.
5. Finally we added other colourful designs before cutting them out.

We gave Mrs Ryalls some tiny gold pegs to hang up the jumpers so that they look like they are on a washing line.  We are really pleased with the overall result.