This week has been very exciting as we have been sharing our love of books for Book Week Scotland. On Monday we designed and created the cover to our class book which is called “Mission Planet Protector” written and illustrated by P4a. Our book tells the story of an alien called Echo who is visiting earth to teach us about looking after our environment. We have learnt a lot about reduce, reuse, recycle. In this week’s chapter, Echo told us that he was returning to Planet X and that he was taking 6 children with him from P4a so that he didn’t forget how to look after his planet.
On Thursday we went to the school library to share our favourite books with our friends. A few people chose to read us a short paragraph from their book to ‘wet our appetites’ for their favourite stories! We heard excerpts from Mr Stink, The Butterfly Club, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, A Squash and a Squeeze and we read ‘Girls don’t fart’!
In Science we learnt about Mohl’s scale which is how rocks are graded from soft to hard. We tested the hardness of rocks by scratching them against each other and we discovered that the softest rock we had was chalk and the hardest was marble.
In Maths we learnt about tiling which is when shapes fit together without any gaps. We learnt to copy shapes and tile them and then we drew around geometric shapes to make different tiling patterns.
In Numeracy we are learning to subtract 2 digit numbers from bigger 2 digit numbers mentally. Some of us found this a bit tricky so we are going to practice a LOT!
Table of the week – 330 points
Learning partners of the week – Luke and Jude
Special award for kindness – Emily
Book Week Scotland award – Rosie