Literacy
Last term we finished our novel, ‘War Horse’ which was a story from a horse’s perspective in WW1. All chapters were brilliant but one of them stood out from the crowd and pushed through- it was Chapter 22! This novel was amazing and we all 100% recommend it to all ages. It could also help a younger audience understand more of what happened in the war.
This term we are studying, ‘Why the Whales Came’ by Michael Morpurgo. We have no idea of what this book has to offer but were all excited to find out. We would like to share the blurb with you:
‘Gracie and her friend Daniel have always been warned to stay away from the Birdman and his side of the island. But then they find a message in the sand and discover the Birdman is not who they thought. They build up a lovely friendship with him, but when the children get stranded on Samson Island, they don’t know whether to believe the birdman’s story that the island is cursed.’
In writing, our focus has been imaginative writing – especially our Buddy Stories that we were working on for 3 weeks. These are stories that we made for our Little P1 Buddies For example: Kye’s North Pole Adventure. Also, we wrote imaginative stories like ‘The Magic Ring.’ We made up our own stories about a ring that gives special powers, and most people chose to make the ring have different powers for example: flying, telekinesis, lighting, invisibility, and shapeshifting. We also wrote group stories where we had to work in small groups to write each chapter. These were spooky stories, set in an old church. We have been thinking a lot about VCOP. VCOP stands for vocabulary, connectives, openers, and punctuation. Here is a good example of VCOP, ‘Her footsteps were soft as she crept lightly across the soaking grass’. That is some of what we have learned in literacy this term but there is more to come next term so stay tuned.
Aaron and Kayci
Numeracy
Last term, we were very busy in math. Here are some examples of the things we learned more about: place value, multiplication, fractions and algebra.
We created some presentations about famous mathematicians. Darrel did his presentation about John Napier and Aiden did his about Albert Einstein. They were all brilliant and we all enjoyed learning something new. Some of us had to do our presentation on a poster and others on PowerPoint.
Our favourite thing that we have done in maths recently was working with positive and negative numbers.
Here is an example. -4 + 2 = -2
We recently have been learning about quadrilaterals and triangles and our maths groups are named after different types of triangles. These are all the different types of triangles: isosceles, equilateral, scalene and right angled. All the triangles are different. An isosceles has two equal sides and one different, an equilateral triangle has 3 equal sides, a scalene triangle has no equal sides, and a right-angled triangle has a right angle in it.
Kacie and Olivia
RME
Last term in RME we have been learning about Christmas traditions in different countries. We worked in pairs to create a page (a bit more if need to) of information about a different country. For example, Darrel and Kayci studied Germany and Kay and Collette studied India and so on . Here are some cool facts we learned:
-In China, children send wrapped apples to their friends.
-In India, many people use mango and banana trees for a Christmas tree.
-Young people in Japan like to eat a KFC for Christmas dinner!
Aiden and Eva
HWB
In December we learned a dance called The Neilsland Circle which we did at our Christmas party, we also taught this dance to P4, P5 and P6! On Monday we will be improving jumps, rolls and balancing skills in gymnastics. Hazel Kelly is going to be coming in to help us P7s learn about going into high school and how to make new friends and learn about our feelings.
Kai and Kay
