It’s been a fun and interactive short week on our return to school in P6b!

This week, in our maths, we have been looking at decimals. We have used our prior knowledge of place value to help with this and have enjoyed using place value charts to help us locate, plot and identify place value digits. We have looked at values up to the thousandths. It was really interesting to note that this means something is one thousand times smaller than a one which we found out upon realising that moving up a place value means something is 10x bigger and, conversely, moving down one means something is 10x smaller.

In our writing we finished our newspaper reports after responding to our marking, this involved lots of dictionary work to help us with our spelling. The newspaper reports have been written out good and they look absolutely fantastic! The newspaper reports contain a: newspaper name, price, date, heading, picture, caption, paragraphs, columns and a reporter.

We have also been continuing with our reading in class. The children really enjoyed having some quiet time to sit and enjoy the books we are each reading. In addition, we brought the school library to our classroom this week with the welcome addition of a few extra books from downstairs so that we can all read for pleasure. We have all been gripped by our continuing class novel, Roald Dahl’s ‘Danny, the Champion of the World’, as we near the thrilling conclusion.

Lastly, we have been continuing with our French work and have now moved into the numbers 20-50. The children are really enjoying the songs and games which we use to help make our French learning lots of fun!

Next week we will be continuing to look at decimals in maths and we will move into learning about the tribal peoples of the rainforest as part of our topic and literacy work.

Have a lovely weekend!