Monday
Language today we continued our work on Shakespeare’s Richard III. Some children took on his role in a hot seat drama activity, and we then all asked him questions. We also got new spelling words.
In maths today we continued work on sequences of number, negative number and related this to temperature.
In P.E. we practised our skills for landing on mats from jumps.
The class also split in two to continue the health work from Jigsaw.
We also spent some time practising our Chinese.
Tuesday
Literacy: Spelling as usual.
Maths: we all worked on money, one group on addition, another on division and the third on related word problems.
In health today the class split into P5s and P6s and we worked from the Jigsaw program.
We also did coding with Mrs B.
To support our learning on China this afternoon we made paper dragons.
Wednesday
The class spent their time with Mrs D working on their area and other gardening.
For maths the class continued their work on temperature.
For literacy we did spelling as usual, and related the maths work to reading comprehension.
After lunch we made the most of the good weather and went out to the TrimTrak. Some of the children from this class took the opportunity to play with the smaller children in their playground.
The live link with Chinese students to continue topic work was excellent, teaching how to write Chinese characters and how to identify the radicals that help make their meanings clearer.
At the end of the day we finished the dragons we had started on Tuesday.
Thursday
Literacy was a reading comprehension activity on the same Chinese story as the previous week, and how this created designs for willow pattern china. And spelling.
Maths was looking at planning activities and areas of study for the rest of the year.
We did an additional activity looking at the football match of the previous night and the importance of being good sports.
The health activity on “what is normal” today was lead by Mark.
For another health activity today we looked at the jobs of the people coming to the careers afternoon next month.
Friday
Maths: times tables and decimals
Literacy: spelling as usual
Went out to playground with infants.
Assembly
Friendship time
