To extend their writing skills, P6 looked at examples of character descriptions written by Roald Dahl.  They then identified what writing skills needed to be included: adjectives, adverbs and descriptive phrases.

Working in their register classes, they brainstormed ideas for their class novel character.  From this, they were able to write an opening paragraph to describe the main character’s personality.  They had to ensure they used their inferential skills to provide descriptions about the character.

Watch this space for the final pieces of writing.

In Maths this week we have been continuing to learn about place value with numbers beyond one million.

We have been:

– spelling the numbers accurately in words

– partitioning numbers

– developing our knowledge of creating friendly numbers

– create numbers beyond hundred thousands with flash cards

– recognising missing numbers within tens of thousands

This week we used our ICT skills to email Mrs Gallagher our learning reflections for the blog. Here are some of our comments:

This week in Mrs Johnston’s class we have been learning how to use paragraphs and where to use them. In spelling we have been doing syllable jumps, Mrs Johnston played down tape with the number 1, 2, 3, and 4 and we jump how many syllables are in each of our words. Nethuki

I have been learning about a lot of animals and time. In maths i was learning about graphs. Daniel

I liked learning about the Song of the Sky and the Sand and the maths .
I learned about the line graphs because I know about bar graphs . Cameron

I have learned how to turn data in to a graph I enjoyed art because we were creating textured art it was very fun I was challenged when we were doing dictionary work.😃 Charlotte

😪😆😋 I like art where we used patterns to decorate are drawings.💃🐧🏁 Laura

This week in Mrs Johnston’s, we have been learning about when to take a new paragraph in grammar. In numeracy, we have been talking about what kind of strategies we can use to help us with our learning. And in spelling we have been learning about syllables by using our spelling words and jumping how many syllables they have. 😃 Lucy

P6 have been revisiting stratagems for spelling. We have been focusing on identifying the syllables within a word.  Working with a partner, they had to use the musical instruments to sound out the syllables.  It made for a very noisy classroom!