Maths

Pentagons will finish work on shape and begin fractions.

Squares and Triangles will continue with decimals then link this to money.

Circles will continue work with money, especially looking at addition and subtraction.

Language

We will finish another Chapter of Kensuke’s Kingdom.

For writing we will redraft our band profiles.

Other info

Hopefully we’ll get all our band photo shoots finished. Can’t wait to see what you’ll look like.

Science Zone should start this week…topic is Space. Lots of recent news about this!

Cathkin High teachers are in this week to have a chat with us.

Revolve Group in on Tuesday with more info on our ‘Big Project’

After listening to your parents’ favourite songs it’s now your turn! Personal point to anyone who comments with their favourite band/singer/song.

Mrs M

Well done to everyone who got a part in the Drama club. The next production is The Sound of Music and I got the part I wanted…Freidrick. In the comments below let everyone know which part you got. Can’t wait to start rehearsing!

Just a reminder that We are having our class photos on Thursday so we will all need to looks smart!

Hope you don’t mind Demi but I’ve added a few photos. Mrs M

Maths

Pentagons will be exploring shapes and properties of triangles.

Squares, Triangles and Circles will be exploring money.

Language

We will complete and post the Cathkin letters and peer assess the diary entries. We’ll also begin to look at persuasive writing.

We’ll discuss Ch 1 of Kensuke’s Kingdom, paying close attention to the skill of summarising, skimming and scanning.

Topic

We all have our band names and will design our logos.

Revolve group on on Tuesday

PE on Thursday

Values Day on Thursday

Mrs M

Hope you all enjoyed the Hopscotch Burns Show. First to comment gets an extra personal  point if you can you tell me the name of the poem which the following comes from, the next line and what it means.

“Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie”

Mrs M

Essential Homework

Language – Spelling. Aggressive, available, bargain, individual, leisure, criticize, foreign, occupy, rhyme. Learn to spell these words.

Language – WOW sentence(s) for 5 words.

Maths – sheets given in class. Answer them on the booklet. (We’ve went over using a protractor but if you are having probs let me know before Fri)

Additional Tasks

4 Points

WW2 presentation for certain people (you know who you are!)

2Points

RM Easimaths session.

Read for at least 20 mins every night.

Spend 20 minutes on linguascope. (Write down 10 French words you focused on)

1Point

Book Swap

Watch the news and pick a story to discuss (this does not count if you are our news reporters)

Angles games on the blog under useful websites.

Free homework point and personal point to the person who comments first on this post with the answer to these questions:

Which band had the members John, Ringo, Paul, George? Name 3 songs by this band.

Mrs M

This week we received the third newsletter of this session here are the relevant diary dates for us

• Athletics finals , Friday 22nd January
• Revole , Recycle 5wk project , Tuesday 26th January
•  Class photos ,Thursday 4th February
• Final Abernethy money must be paid , Thursday 4 th February
• School closed for In service day, Friday 5th February
• School closed for half term , Monday, Tuesday,8th and 9th of February

Abernethy trip 21 St -24th March

P.E is on Tuesday and Thursday

Homework is due in on Friday

Last week we didn’t do well with homework which made our chances of star class slim but we can still win if we all be on our best behaviour and bring in all our homework so good luck and let’s do our best to win!

Rachel :p

Today drama was rehearsing for part for the show (The Sound of Music!!) All the groups got to rehears except from group 5 sadly but I was rehearsing for the main boy part for the caption!!! Put down in the comments who you rehears for and good luck to all the drama people!!!

The girls received a very special letter in the post.