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We have been busy doing our tasks this week:

Maths

This week in Number Talks we continued to practise our subtraction strategies. We also looked at equivalent fractions, this is where fractions look very different, with different numerators and denominators, but they actually represent exactly the same amount. We played fraction  games and did a maths colouring/matching task, to improve our fractions knowledge.

Reading

For reading, our groups had Literacy Circle tasks to do, these tasks are to be carried out using our reading books. We read with the teacher and then discuss what the author has written and why certain styles have been used to describe characters and locations. We also did a Reflective Reading task, this was a Blankety Blank activity and was all about Edinburgh. In this task, we have to fill in missing words to make the text make sense.

Literacy

During literacy, we have been learning the correct way to use apostrophes for the contraction of words. When we put two words together to form a shortened version, we use the apostrophe to replace the missing letter.

Art

In art we learned about a popular artist called Paul Cezanne . He was known for doing still life art.

So we tried his style of art we used props like a flower, a hat, an orange and an apple it was very exciting trying this style of art.

Topic

We did some research on our Europe Topic, we also did a quiz with a whopping 75 questions all about Europe. This quiz will also help our Euro Quiz Team, who will represent us in the West Lothian European school quiz.

Mass

We went to mass this week at our local parish and sang some hymns and listened to Cannon Jeremy  talk about the Holy Spirit. We also had a good little walk over to the church and back which was really enjoyable.

Science

For science this week we learned about Newton’s disc. We learned that if you spin Newton’s disc in a fast frequency the Colours will become white to the human eye because the frequency of the disc is fast.

P.E

One of our P.E activities was the bleep test which is a fitness test to see how long you can run.

We also did gymnastics, which was very good. We revised some ball skills too, shoulder and chest passes.

Music

In music we went to the music room and played Instruments including maracas, drums and other instruments.

Problem-solving

In problem solving each group got 9 cubes and we were asked questions to solve with the cubes which we were given.

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Have a lovely long weekend everyone and see you all next Wednesday!