Well I made it through the first week back thanks to all of your hard work and helpfulness. Phew!

Well done to our class star this month, Bailye and our citizen of the month, Sanjana. We hope you enjoy your tea with Miss Russell.

I’ve been very impressed with your book review solo talks so far. I especially enjoyed Aimee’s as I’m sure you’ll agree it really stood out, although what she’s going to use that toilet roll for now is anyone’s guess!

Moan alert! Please remember homework is necessary and should be completed fully and on time. Any problems or issues should be sorted out well before Friday, don’t leave it to the last minute!

Mrs M

Hi to everyone in P5. It’s been lovely getting to know you all this week and hopefully we’ve got a hardworking term ahead of us. I’ll be using this blog to keep everyone up to date with homework and events. If there is anything you would like to see included, let me know.

This week – Please Remember…

• Our school trip is next week. Remember to bring in your money and permission slip asap.
• Gym days are Tuesdays and Fridays. Remember your P.E. kit.
• It’s getting quite hot in school now, you might want to bring in some water to drink in class.

What we’re doing.

Maths:

• Squares and Triangles will be doing check ups before we move on to trickier number work.
• Circles will be working on rounding and working with numbers up to 10 000.
• We will be trying to improve our mental agility. This week we’re focusing on doubling numbers, times tables, adding and subtracting. (See sheet)

Language:

• We’ll be looking at how to self assess our writing so we can improve our redrafting skills and the quality of our work.
• We’ll be continuing to read The Demon Dentist.
• The Reciprocal Reading strategies we’ll be looking at this week will be Visualising and Inferring.
• We’ll look at nouns and this will become part of our spelling rules for next week.
• You will begin to perform your solo talks on your books.

Topic:

• Our topic this term is going to be Puppets. Hopefully we’ll start this soon. In the meantime, feel free to bring in any puppets or props you have.

Mrs M

Homework is due in on Friday. Don’t leave it until the last minute to complete. If you have any problems, let me know as soon as possible.

• Maths: Mental Maths strategies 1,2,4 and 7. Remember you will have a mini test on Friday. Get an adult to initial the strategy to say you’ve done it.
• Maths: Mangahigh Challenges.
• Language: Summarise the Demon Dentist so far. (Remember to only include the main points. You can use bullet points or short sentences.)
• Language: Prepare a short solo talk on a book you’ve read.

Mrs M

Remember this homework is due on Thursday because of the INSET day.

Maths – Finish off class work, mental strategies, Mangahigh.

Language – Read at home, book review in book journal.

Another fun filled week ahead P7b.

As winners of the Star Class we will be able to visit the Fairtrade Tuck Shop on Thursday. Yummy!

We will be visiting the pantomime on Thursday morning. I can’t wait to see Aladdin.

Maths – Keep revising the mental strategies. Remember this is the only way to improve! Worksheet given in class. MangaHigh challenges.

Language – Worksheet ‘there and their’ and ‘were, wear and where’ and reading LOTS at home. Also some book reviews are due on Friday – you know who you are.

Topic – Keep looking out interesting facts on WW2. Finish your task on important leaders of WW2 at home.

Other – Remember to keep a close eye on your carbon footprint! Do you really need to keep the tv on all evening? Could you walk to school instead of getting a lift?

Mrs M

I can’t wait to see all of the wonderful research projects you have been working on.

Mrs M

Hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year. We have a very busy term coming up.

Our topic this term will be World War 2. There will be a chance for you to carry out personal research. If you access GLOW, you will find lots of useful information. If you have any resources to share, please bring them in. We will hopefully arrange an educational visit to learn more about this topic. I can’t wait!

We will be receiving a visit from the High School teachers to report on progress and exchange letters.

Hopefully you will still be reading lots at home – remember I’ll be checking. In class we will complete Private Peaceful and Anne Frank’s Diary. I expect everyone to be giving their best during writing sessions. Let’s try to uplevel without reminders. So far we’ve been doing really well with our oral book reviews. Hopefully the feedback has been helpful.

We have lots of Maths topics to complete. In the meantime, please keep revising your tables and work on your mental strategies. These are so important and make such a difference. If you go to GLOW, you will see a list of everything you are expected to know. I’ll start to make a big push on revision.

Phew. There will be lots of hard work going on but remember at the end of this term you will be looking foward to Abernethy!

Keep up the hard work everyone

Mrs M

Maths: Mental maths strategies in back of jotter – remember this is VERY important to revise. You should be able to carry out the mental strategy confidently and quickly.

Squares – Play Pinata game and Tangled Web on Manga High and Hunt the Banana game to help revise negative numbers and angles. Have a go at http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=FractionGame for games related to Fractions. (Click on Begin Activity – no need to register)

Triangles and Circles – Play Sundae game on Manga High. Have a go at http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=Dojo for work with Times tables. (Click on begin activity – no need to register)

Language: Reading for Enjoyment. Some of you will have oral book reviews to give on Friday. Remember to prepare these well.

Mrs M

Due to tickets for the Primary 5-7 Christmas show on Wednesday 12^th December at 9.30AM being sold out, a new show has been added to the list on Friday 14^th December at 9.30AM. Tickets cost £3 per person; two tickets are allowed per family. Please come along and watch your child sing a well known Christmas song.

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