What a super week it’s been in P6b!

In our writing and topic work we’ve been continuing with our exploration of space. We are in the process of finishing off our draft information texts on the Solar System and responding to our marking so that, next week, we can write our work out good for display. They are looking absolutely fantastic so far; we are focussing on our handwriting and using commas accurately as part of our punctuation focus.

We’ve also been continuing with our reading sessions whereby we’re reading in our groups and sharing our thoughts on the books we’re presently reading. Additionally, we are nearing the hilarious conclusion to our class novel: ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Dog Days’. We will be voting on our next class novel in due course.

In our maths learning we’ve finished our work on angles. The children have worked extremely hard on this and are really proficient at using a protractor accurately and efficiently. We have now begun working on perimeter which has also focussed on embedding our advanced 2d shape knowledge by naming the shapes we have been measuring for perimeter. Interestingly, we uncovered that, finding the perimeter of a shape with lengths involving a decimal point are best calculated by using the column addition method.

Lastly, we submitted our designs for the float, based on the Disney epic ‘Coco’. We watched a clip from the movie before thinking of ideas which best reflected the movie after which we intricately designed, drew and coloured in our creations.

Next week we will be finishing off responding to marking for our information texts on the Solar System before writing for display. In maths we will be continuing our perimeter learning which will move into measurement more specifically, using a ruler to accurately measure and draw lengths.