Literacy

This week we have been developing our ability to use a dictionary correctly. We know there are different reasons why we might use a dictionary –

Mia – to find a word that you may not know how to spell

Euan- to find out if the word is a verb, noun or adjective

Connor- to find the definition of a word

We have had fun working with a partner to find the definition of words that Mrs Little put up on the board. First we had to find the words though and that was the tricky part!

Denholm- if I was finding the word ‘last’ I would flick through the pages of the dictionary to get to the letter L then I would search the words that begin with ‘l’ and ‘a’ the word would be quite far down the list because the third letter is an ‘s’

Maths/numeracy

We have been having a great time with our numeracy lessons! As always we have lots of opportunities to develop our numeracy skills both written and mental. This week we played games such as nine snap, Harry Potter Maths, elimination, hit the button, loop cards and Tom Thumb. Some of us were using Numicon to create number bonds and we also used the fuzzy ball darts to help with counting in 10’s.

We have also been learning about chance and probability this week.

Jason- we played ‘play your cards right’ and this is about predicting what the chances were of a number being higher or lower than the number on the board.

Alfie- if there are three green cubes and two red cubes in a bag you are more likely to pick out a green one because there are more of them

Euan – if you have 7 balls in a bag and two are orange and the rest are black you have a two in seven chance of pulling out an orange ball.

P.E.

We have been learning to play golf with Mr Jeffries.

Denholm- we were learning how to chip the ball

Kiara- we were learning about long distance and short distance putting.

Euan- I liked it when Mr Jeffries made a golf course and we got to play it

 

That’s all for now! Have a great weekend!