Another great week!

Literacy

We have been learning about contractions. First we looked at the root word of contraction to help us figure out what a contraction might be. We then played a fun game with pieces of paper that expanded and contracted to help us understand. Here are some pictures of our activities…

 

We continue to develop our ability to use a writing planner to help us structure our writing. This week we had to make notes in our planner to help us structure a newspaper article. We also had great fun making up newspaper headlines about the death of Lord Darnley. Here are some of the ones we came up with….

Maisie- Suspicious Death of Darnley

Ellis- Darnley’s Mysterious Death

Luke- Murder or No Murder?

Cameron- Darnley’s Suspicious Death

Callum- Explosion Kills Darnley

Niamh- Darnley’s Mystery Death

Zara- Mary Queen of Scots ….Suspect!

Maths

Once again there’s been lots of hard work this week. We continue to work hard to improve our mental agility. We have been practicing our tables using an online multiplication game which makes learning fun! We have been learning to convert analogue time into digital time. Here’s a picture of the result….

 

HWB

Continuing on the theme of friendship from last week we made our own little friendship balloon to decorate our classroom door. We are all able to discuss what a good friend does and how a good friend makes us feel. Here is a picture of our door….

P.E

In P.E. this week we were learning about the importance of teamwork. We played the game of castles to help us learn to work together to defend our castle.