Here are some photos from today’s gymnastics session. I’ve been very impressed with the effort and talent on show.

Mrs M

Another busy week ahead for P7.

• PE on Tuesday – remember kit.
• Cathkin Minisports on Thursday morning. Remember to be on time and have a full gym kit. (There will also be a meeting for parents on this evening. A letter should go out this week with more details.)
• Rights Respecting School Assessment Day. Some of you will be presenting to the infant assembly and we will have visitors to our classroom to observe lessons. Fingers crossed they see what goes on every day at Hallside.

What are we learning?

Language – We’ve now started the writing assessment. Hopefully we’ll finish these and have them marked soon. We’ve continued with the spelling from last week to allow us time to look at definitions and revise them more carefully. There will be a test on Friday. We will do a little reciprocal reading from Think Me Back and some Key Comprehension work.

Maths – We’ll complete our rounding work and move onto Place Value.

RRS – We’ll hopefully complete our class charter. We can post pictures on here for parents to admire! We will have a visitor to observe lessons on respecting rights.

Mrs M

Essential homework MUST be completed and handed in on Friday. Each essential homework task is worth 1 point.

Additional tasks MUST also be handed in on Friday!!! You do not have to complete them all, but remember you must achieve at least 10 points.

Essential Homework (6 points this week)

• Maths:

http://www.math-play.com/Rounding-Numbers-Pirate-Game.html

http://www.abcya.com/rounding_numbers.htm

Mangahigh challenges

Studyladder challenges

(The Mangahigh and Studyladder are the most important ones to complete)

• Maths: Mental rounding to nearest 10,100 (and 1000, 1000000 for some)
• Language: Continue to learn spelling words. Write an INTERESTING sentence using as many of these words as you can and use good VCOP.

‘Cious’ words – conscious, precious, delicious, atrocious, suspicious, unconscious, ferocious, vivacious, efficacious, tenacious and capacious. SPELLING TEST IS ON FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!

• Find synonyms for delicious.

• Language/Topic: Research either Chamberlain or Hitler and create a factfile/poster/powerpoint showing as much information as you can. Remember to name your sources. (this is worth 2 marks)

Additional Tasks.

4Points

• Oral Book review for Murray, Alison, Andrew H, Cameron, Demi, Christopher.

2 Points

• Read for at least half an hour (get someone to sign to say you’re doing this)
• Write an entry for our class blog. You can email this to mrsmaxwell1@hotmail.co.uk to make it easier and quicker to upload.
• VCOP a page from a book you have been reading.

1 Point

• Slogan for Class Charter for Wednesday.
• Write up a fitness diary to show how active you have been this week. Are you surprised by these results?
• Spend 5 minutes talking to a parent about what we have been learning as a class with regards to rights. Note down and answer any questions they have. (get a parent to sign to say you’ve done this.)

Please remember to get your homework signed.

Mrs M

Look at how lovely and smart we all look now.

Mrs M

A few folk have mentioned difficulty with RM Easimaths at home. Best way to get access is through Glow using your own login details. This works best using a desktop computer as it requires flashplayer. There is an Easimaths app for ipad and android which you can download and login to using your own details. (through RM Unify option)

If this doesn’t help, you can get a wee note from home to say it’s ok to spend 1 breaktime in class to complete the session.

Mrs M

In case the link doesn’t work!

Essential homework MUST be completed and handed in on Friday. Each essential homework task is worth 1 point.

Additional tasks MUST also be handed in on Friday!!! You do not have to complete them all, but remember you must achieve at least 10 points.

Essential Homework

• Maths: 1 session (15 minutes) on RM Easimaths
• Maths: Mental (reinforce basic bonding, read and verbalise 6 digit numbers)
• Language: learn spelling words and try to generate at least 2 new words which follow the pattern

‘Cious’ words – conscious, precious, delicious, atrocious, suspicious, unconscious, ferocious, vivacious, efficacious, tenacious and capacious.

• Language: Choose 1 word and write an INTERESTING sentence using good VCOP.
• Language: Put your spelling words in alphabetical order and write them out neatly.

Additional Tasks.

4Points

• Oral Book review for Farheen, Christopher, Greig, Barry and Kayla.
• VCOP a page from a book you are reading.

3 POINTS

• Complete an extra session of RM Easimaths.
• Read for at least half an hour (get someone to sign to say you’re doing this)
• Design a header for our blog.
• Write an entry for our class blog.

2POINTS

• Bring in a photo of you playing or relaxing for our Rights Display.

Please remember to get your homework signed.

There’s lots of exciting learning happening this week. Here’s a wee overview.

Maths

• Circles will be learning to round 3 digit numbers to the nearest 10.
• Triangles and Squares will be looking at place value of 7 digit numbers and practising our mental addition strategies.

Language

• Spelling and vocabulary – words ending in cious pattern.
• Continue to read Think Me Back (Chapter 2) and do reciprocal reading tasks.
• Comprehension – looking at answering different types of questions in detail using evidence from the passage.
• Writing – Complete the All About Me activity and hopefully begin our assessment piece.
• Oral book reviews will begin on Friday – can’t wait to hear them!

Topic

• Declaration of War and the early days of WW2 . Did you know that this week in 1939 war was declared?

PE/Health

• Gymnastics on a Tuesday and Thursday. Please remember your kit.
• Continued work on looking at the Rights of the Child and working towards our class charter.

Here is the link for homework this week.

homeworktarget10 31st August 2015

Only hand in your best work. If I feel it is not up to standard then you may find yourself having to repeat it at the weekend.

If you would prefer to email some of your work, send it to

mrsmaxwell1@hotmail.co.uk

Remember we have only looked at the first 5 spelling words. We will do the rest tomorrow.

Mrs M

Ok folks so here’s the plan of action for the week ahead.

Maths: We will continue to do a little bit of revision from P6, especially looking at our mental strategies and number work.

Language:

Reading – We will continue to read Think Me Back by Catherine Forde and use this to help us look at various reading strategies (especially predicting and questioning)

Writing – We will look to begin our baseline writing assessment. Remember to try your best and remember everything I’m looking for.

Topic – This term’s topic is World War 2. This week we will look at how the war started. I’ve been really interested in all of your stories so far. Remember to ask at home for any stories about your relatives during WW2.

Mrs M

P.E. Days are Tuesday and Thursday. Please make sure you have your gym kit on these days.

Please try to ensure you have soft shoes this week to wear in class.

We will be doing lots of personal reading. Feel free to bring in your own book from home if you would prefer.

We’ve spoken about the importance of homework. Please let me know in advance if you think there might be problems and we can sort them out.

I’ll use this blog to keep everyone up to date with what we’re doing in class. Hope you find it useful.

Mrs M