Category: Primary 6

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 great week!  The P7/6 class have been working extra hard at learning division strategies and they have been busy writing an expository text.  They have been learning about the history and significance of Remembrance day as well.

The children have been heavily involved in organising Children in Need activities and it has been a successful venture.  For IDL, they have been working in groups research 3 different types of animals from the Amazon.  They have been learning about the different diet, habitat as well as food chain.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

We have had a successful learning week!

For Literacy, we learnt to use emotive language and rhetorical questions in our persuasive writing.

We have been working so hard at developing our comprehension skills.  We have been learning to use clues in the text to make inference.  We also used our skimming and scanning skills to find answers to comprehension questions.

Numeracy

We have been learning about the inverse relationship of multiplication and division. We are also developing our skills in short division.

HWB

We are developing our understanding of discrimination and prejudice.

 

 

Primary 6/5 have been learning about Bloom’s Taxonomy in literacy writing. We have also been testing our peers on questions about the book “Wonder” as that is the book we have been reading in class. We have looked at higher and lower order questions,, including knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation.

We had a lovely week, full of fun learning.

Literacy- We learnt to take notes, spell contacted words and we learned how to make inferences.

Numeracy and Maths

We have been learning to multiply numbers multiples of 10, 100 and 1000.

We also practiced the column multiplication strategy.  Some of us are now able to multiply up to  4 digit number by 1 digit and a few of can multiply 2 digit by 2 digit numbers.

IDL

We  have been exploring the importance of Black history.

HWB

We explored what discrimination means and how it affects emotions/ self esteem.

Have a great October break everyone!

LD- I found out that some tribes in the Amazon lose their traditions due to other tribes taking over their village.

KT- We learned about angles.  I enjoyed going outside and looking for angles.

LS- I learned to round decimals to whole numbers.

GH- I have been practicing my number bonds.

AF- I learned to that to summarise text, I must only write about the main events.

MN- I really enjoyed learning to create ‘cartoon art’.  I had to make sure I followed the step by step instructions.

 

For HWB-  The children created a list of activities which promote their positive outlook.

We have been using blocks and squares in our jotters to help our understanding of various times tables. We have also been looking at charts and diagrams and how these can be used to show data. In maths we have also been using chimney sums for addition, subtraction and multiplication, and found that this made it much easier. We have also been practising our addition and tables in Big Maths Beat That.

For language work we do silent reading every morning. We have also been doing SRAs to help with our reading comprehension. We have been practising our handwriting. We have been planning a piece of writing about ourselves, and have written similes about ourselves to describe ourselves.

For our topic work on the rainforest we have been drawing toucans.

This week;

CE- I learnt that to quickly multiply numbers ending in zero, I must multiply the non zero numbers first then add the remaining in the end.

AF- If you are estimating the answer a question, you have to do rounding first.

 

Literacy

LD-  I learnt that homophones are words that sound the same but have different meaning.

FS- I now know that the word they’re refers to a contracted group of  words ‘ they are’.

Outdoor learning

CW- we went outside to pick up leaves, grass and sticks.  Then we made them into artwork.

 

This week we have learnt to:

• MG- I learnt to use compensation strategy for addition and subtraction.
• KS- I can now round numbers to the nearest 1000.
• LR- I learnt to round 3 digit numbers to the nearest 10 and 100.
• CC- To round numbers, you must find your indicator number first.
• CE- this week we edited our descriptive text.
• AF- We learnt to use connectives in our writing.
• MN- I really enjoyed learning to draw a Toucan and use colour.

Have lovely long weekend from all of us in P7/6