Monday:
Maths: Times tables activities
New spelling words given out.
Writing today was the start of our block on information reports: one group wrote about our school while the other wrote about dogs.
Green Gym with Alice was great fun as usual.
In P.E. today we started activities related to athletics.
Tuesday:
In language today one group focussed on writing another information piece, this time about the school. The other group started making notes about their chosen topic on China, ready to write up their piece next week.
For maths we continued to look money. One group worked on simple division, another group on subtraction and the final group worked with the class teacher on partitioning to help multiplication.
Coding with Mrs B was great fun, as always.
We finished off our writing about our future jobs for health.
Wednesday:
With Mrs D today the class planted hedges and fixed up the bug hotel.
Maths: assessment on angles and compass points.
Language today was reading comprehension with the children creating questions about their books. We also used this to introduce the idea of referencing sources by referring to page numbers. As another language activity, and ICT, we used HotPotatoes to create jumbled texts from our reading books.
We also continued our research on China.
As part of our health activities the class continued their research into possible future jobs and career paths.
For technology today we used big building bricks in small groups to make bridges.
Thursday:
Maths: we used a Sumdog challenge to improve our skills with number patterns.
Language today was note taking for our Chinese project as well as spelling.
As part of our health program Mark worked with the class on mental health.
We also looked at the topic work we have covered this year.
A group of P5 children were lucky enough to participate in a sports day with other schools from the area.
Friday:
Maths: continued work on number patterns, individually differentiated.
PE: went on the TrimTrak.
Health: reviewed our work on future jobs.
Reading: identified individual current abilities and next steps.
