We are so excited, because we are planning our educational trip to the National Museum, Scotland, as part of our Vikings topic. We will have the opportunity to investigate a handling box, visit the Vikings gallery and also to take part in a Vikings workshop. The trip is planned for Wednesday 8th February and the cost will be £10 per child. Mrs Stewart will send all relevant paperwork home next week, so could you please look out for it coming home?
This week, we have been learning about where the Vikings came from, where they raided and where they settled. We plotted all the information onto a map, including their trade routes. We used a key to make the map easier to read.
As you know, this week’s writing focussed on writing a formal letter. We had to remember that we should also include the recipient’s (person we were writing to) address, as well as a polite closing farewell (Yours sincerely). This week’s writing session was more challenging because Mrs Stewart wanted us to remember how to set it out properly by ourselves, so didn’t give us a completed example on the smartboard, to copy from. This is to encourage us to use our knowledge and challenge ourselves, which helps us ‘grow’ our brains! We did have our success criteria, which helped us remember what we needed to include.
Our class maths for this block will focus on money, which ties in really well with the addition and subtraction we are working on in Numeracy. This week, we investigated the new £1 that will be issued shortly and discovered that we will have to spend or exchange our old £1 coins before October!
In Numeracy, we learned how to set out our written sums properly, as it’s an important skill that we will need as we continue through education and into work. We also used Numicon shapes, empty number lines and other concrete materials and aids to help mentally calculate 2/3-digit addition problems that Mrs Stewart gave us. Our challenge was to work out problems that involved regrouping.
We have had the opportunity to discuss healthy eating choices this week and Mrs Stewart has been delighted with the positive attitude that our class has had to choosing our snacks and drinks. Nearly everyone in class is bringing in water to drink in class, some even have fruit in it to give it a little more flavour – fantastic! There have been lots of bags and tubs of fruit and vegetables at snack time and everyone is enjoying eating them – well, apart from one day when Lewis had strawberries that were a little bit sour! 😮
Next Tuesday, we have the opportunity to take part in a ‘street dance’ session, which should be fun! Tiring, but fun!
Have a lovely weekend! 🙂
It’s that time of year again when the children have the opportunity to enter the Burns’ Federation Poetry competition. On Monday, the children will have an opportunity to put their names forward for this and will be given a selection of Burns’ poems home with them. They can choose one to learn and there will be class and stage heats after the February break where they can perform their poem of choice, and our final competition representatives will be chosen. Any child who doesn’t wish to be considered for the competition, will be given a class Scottish poem home to learn instead. What a great opportunity to learn about our Scots language!
Mrs Stewart 🙂
