Day: November 20, 2020

Literacy

 

We read through our reading book and then answered comprehension questions about the text. We were improving our skim and scanning skills when reading to find information.

 

Darby- “In reading we were answering questions about the book. We had to write our answers in sentences”.

 

During ELF thus week we were focusing on varying our sentences lengths. We were trying to use connective words to extend our sentences.

 

Robyn- “In writing we were making our sentences bigger by using works like ‘because’ and ‘and’ “.

 

During Word Boost we were improving our vocabulary. We are introduced to the meaning of 6 boost words and we then use these to up-level our talking and listening and writing.

 

Maths

This week we continued to learn about number sequences. We were learning about number sequences where the rule was minus.

 

Aayan- “We were learning about number sequences that were take away. I used a 100 number square to help me work out the answer”.

 

We also were introduced to the game SumDog. There is a selection of different games that involve you using your maths skills. This is something we will be using in class to support our numeracy and maths skills.

 

Health and Wellbeing

This week we enjoyed staying active and healthy during P.E. After warming up, we focused on balances.

 

Sarah-Louise- “We have been exercising and this makes me feel healthy”.

Hello everyone! Here is an update on what we have been learning this week.

IDL- We have been learning about they types of animals living in the Amazon Rainforest.  We then creates a Diorama to show all the things we learnt so far.  We had to include the following information;

• Food chain
• Labels of animals and the layers.
• Habitats each animal lives in
• Individual animal’s diet
• Information sheet/ Poster.

We have been learning different strategies to subtract three digit numbers.

In Literacy, we have been uplevelling our persuasive text by using various vocabulary (we have not used before).  We also used higher level connectives.

It has been another busy week in P4/3 as we continue to build on our learning, challenge ourselves and trying our very best with every task. We have been exploring different texts, with a focus on identifying the differences between fiction and non- fiction books. This is a key skill to develop as the majority of texts children will explore in high school will be non- fiction. We have also been looking at the different types of questions, specifically open and closed questions. Ask your child what is different about each type of question.

 

Next week, we are looking forward to preparing videos that show case the learning in P4/3 and will be sent home for you to view. This may test Mrs Morrison’s IT skills, however I’m up for the challenge!!!!

Have a lovely weekend and I will check in with you next Friday.

Have a read to see what we have been up to this week in P2.

Writing

Vrishti – “We have been learning about persuasive writing”

Archie M – “We had to persuade people about why school is important”

Andrew – “School is important so you can learn for when you grow up”

Numeracy

Jayden – “We have been finding efficient ways to bridge 10 in number talks”

Euan – “We have been trying to find the missing number in an adding sum”

IDL

Charli Mae – “We had to sort the sea animals into the right layer of the ocean. The dolphin went at the top in the sunlight zone.”

Macy May – “The sea animals all went in different layers.”

Sharing the Learning

In the next few weeks, we will be sending out a video all about our learning in P2 so far. This week, we became movie stars and began filming our sharing the learning.

Have a great weekend! Remember to wear your pyjamas on Tuesday the 24th November for our Read Write Count day!