Do Billionaires need Friends?

This week we have been thinking about our reading and how we can ask powerful questions to learn more. We read an abridged version of Billionaire Boy by David Walliams and then worked in groups to create and answer powerful questions. A good way to know if a question is powerful is if it makes you think rather than remember. Here are a few examples of our powerful questions.

1. How would the story change if the main character was a girl?

2. What would life be like if the main character had a friend?

3. If the main character had one friend do you think he would want another?

4. What would be different if the main character had no money?

All of these questions made us think about the answer – we couldn’t just say yes or no.

We have also started our topic about natural disasters called Disaster Island. We are not quite sure what type of thing happens on Disaster Island, but it probably isn’t good! We’ll keep you up to date…

In maths this week we have been continuing with number work. The pyramids have been partitioning numbers that have hundreds, tens and units and comparing the pictorial form, written form and expanded form. The Spheres and Cuboids have been continuing to identify and continue number patterns and using function machines to add on in hundreds and tens. This has been quite challenging to start with but we all got there in the end and will continue to work hard on developing these skills. Next week the Pyramids will be counting up in tens and hundreds and matching digits to number words. The Spheres and Pyramids will be balancing sums and subtractions and using letters to represent numbers.

We still have our P5 Rocks display – with lots of samples to examine. If you have any examples of rocks that you find we would be interested in examining them and classifying them.

That’s all from us this week – hope you all have a lovely weekend. Remember we love to read comments about our learning so please leave us a message.

Miss Anderson and Primary 5