A huge hello and welcome to P7!

This year is going to be filled with lots of learning and fun. Hope everyone tries their best this year.

Mrs Maxwell

Sports Day is on Tuesday. Remember to dress in your team colours.

Mrs M

But don’t worry we’ll still manage to squeeze lots of fun, educational stuff in!

Maths – we’ll continue with our mental strategies, especially addition. We need a little more work on missing numbers.

Language – we’ll hopefully complete our profiles and send them home to parents. We shall finish Demon Dentist and puppet scripts.

Puppet Topic – last chance to sew puppets, rehearse and get ready to put on a show! Can’t wait to see them all.

Homework – remember any issues need to be sorted out before Friday. I know sometimes it’s tricky to fit everything in but don’t leave it until the last minute.

Mrs M

spelling ‘al’ words Super Sentences (remember what I’m looking for), copy words 3 times and free choice of 2 tasks

Maths 1 session of RM Easimaths and Mangahigh Challenges.

Due on Friday! No excuses.

Story writing is due in on Friday. This should be of a good quality. Remember what I’m looking for!

Spelling test on Friday to check you know the rules for making nouns plural. Keep practising.

(wee group, practise the words you were doing with Mrs P)

Mental maths strategies

• multiplication tables and link with division
• Finding 1/2 and 1/4 of numbers (remember to find 1/2, half, we divide by 2 and to find 1/4, quarter, we divide by 4)
• Counting on and backwards in 1s and 10s

Mrs M

On Friday I will collect the spelling rules poster and the Fairtrade Mascot task. I will also give you a mini test to check how well you know the mental strategies. You also have to write a story but I will not collect that in until the following week.

Mrs M

A few folk are having problems accessing the manga high games on their iPads. For this week I’ll be happy if you complete the challenges and I’ll make sure that I’ll only include challenges as homework in future!

The spelling and mental maths are due in next Friday, after the bank holiday and in service day.

Today we went through the rules for making nouns plural. Here’s a wee clue to help you.

Think of these words and what you do to make them plural.

Box, brush, glass, church

wolf, wife, knife, loaf

butterfly, family

chair, hat, bag

Please ensure your poster is of a good quality!

Mrs M

We’ve had a great day at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh. Watch this blog for some reports about what we did. In the meantime here are some photos of our trip.   

Maths: Mangahigh challenges and mental maths strategies. (remember to get each strategy initialled by an adult)

Language: Spelling (may not be given out until Wednesday or Thursday) Rules for making nouns plural. Make a poster to show you know the rules.

Those who have not presented their book review will do so this week, so please bring in what you need.

We have a very busy week ahead of us!

Remember we have our school trip on Tuesday. The bus will be leaving sharply so try to ensure you’re on time and register quickly that morning. Uniform should be worn. There will be a chance to visit the gift shop if you wish. Bring a packed lunch. Any other questions, ask me on Monday.

Maths :

We will continue to improve our mental work. We’ll look at rounding, doubles, multiplication and numbers to 10000.

Squares and Triangles will look at rounding, doubling and finishing our check ups.

Circles will look at place value of numbers up to 10000.

Language:

We will finish our imaginative story. Hopefully you’ll use all the information I’ve given to help up level, improve and assess your writing. Have you remembered to use adjectives for description?

Spelling this week will look at the rules for making nouns plural. There will be a mini test so keep practising at home.

We will hear the rest of the solo talks.

Our class novel is still The Demon Dentist. We’ll look at the next few chapters and continue with reciprocal reading. The strategies we’ll focus on will be inferring and connecting. There will also be the Primary 5 reading assessment this term.

Topic

You’ll have a chance to finish off your group presentation on puppets and present this to the class. We’ll be threading a needle and tying thread in preparation for making puppets. Thank you to Simran for bringing in the sock puppets to show us.

Mrs M