P7b Blog

Hello,

It’s been another busy week in P7b, so we’ll use our summarising skills to give you a quick round up of the action.

In numeracy we have been consolidating our learning of decimals and money. We began by making the link to our previous work on fractions before ordering and sequencing them. As well as this, we have been adding, subtracting, multiplying and even dividing decimals which was very tricky at first. But after lots of practise, we think we’ve got the hang of it! We have been applying our knowledge of money across the curriculum by planning a trip to Rio as our homework task. Mr. Logan challenged us to calculate the total cost for him to travel to Rio for a week next summer, providing details of accommodation and interesting places to visit whilst there.

We have been reading Grandpa’s Great Escape by David Walliams as our class novel and focused on metalinguistics skills in reading on Tuesday. Whilst reading, we identified ambitious adjectives in the story and found synonyms and antonyms for these words using a thesaurus. Who would have known that similar words for elderly could be crinkly, wrinkly and senile! In writing we edited the first drafts of our Rio Olympics newspaper articles and typed up final drafts of these on the Netbooks. It was great to relive the moments when Murray, Farah and Kenny won gold medals for Team GB and tied in nicely with our IDL theme, Brazil.

Speaking of Brazil, we are now 2 weeks into our 6 week block of futsal (a South American variation of football) on a Wednesday. With our specialist coach Neil, we have been transferring what we have learnt with Mr. Logan in football to develop our futsal skills. Developed in Uruguay, futsals are slightly smaller and heavier than a size 5 football and encourage close control, passing and individual creativity. This week, we also split into groups to prepare presentations, acting as both the Scottish and Brazilian tourism boards. We then presented to the class, comparing and contrasting the two countries, in an attempt to persuade people to visit each country. You can see the Brazilian fact files that we created on our IDL wall in class, come and have a look! Did you know, for example, that a rhino once ran in a city council election in Brazil?

Mr. Logan may not be with us next week as his baby is due on Monday 10th October, however, we’ll be back and raring to go for another fun-filled week! Remember, parents’ evenings are on Wednesday and Thursday and the P7 House Leaders and Captains will be given duties each night.

Thanks for reading.

P7b and Mr. L