It’s been another great week of learning in P6b!

In our writing, this week, we used the teacher’s model text of a blog report on rainforest tribes to help us plan our own version on the same topic. We completed this activity in groups and finished the week by beginning to write out our reports properly using netbooks. Everyone is enjoying taking turns to use the computer and contribute to the development of their group’s blog article.

We’ve been continuing with our reading sessions as part of our literacy circles activities. In addition to this, we’ve also been completing independent reading and taking it in turns to read with adults within the classroom. In the middle of the week, we demonstrated democratic values by electing our new class novel. Winning by a wide margin, we are now reading ‘Dog Days’ part of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.

Spelling has been an additional focus this week and we’ve been working on practicing our set sounds, as part of our homework, in school. We’ve been using our peer group to support and have had lots of fun with testing each other’s knowledge of our current week’s sound.

In our maths learning, we finished our work on decimals but are now building on this previous learning to help us with our new topic; percentages. We have been looking at converting percentages into fractions and decimals. Later in the week, we also began looking at percentages of a quantity but will continue this into next week.

I look forward to seeing many of you for parents’ evening, it will be great to share the many successes your children have made this year. In addition, please note, the harvest church service is now on Thursday, parents are very welcome to attend.

Have a lovely weekend!