Another jam packed week!!
The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
We are continuing to explore the text, ‘The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips’. The story is both sad and funny at the same time. We have had great discussions about what life was like during the war and how hard it would have been for children.
We created ‘If you liked this book, try…’ bookmarks. We created bookmarks to leave inside books when children get books from the library. On the bookmarks, we put our book recommendations for other readers to read and hopefully help them choose the book that we recommended. Mrs Manlove kindly let us put our bookmarks into books in our school library- thank you, Mrs Manlove!!
Circuit Training
We have been doing circuit training in P.E. This is a fun way to get children involved in physical fitness and put them on the path to a lifelong enjoyment of exercise. We are going to adapt these activities and come up with our very own!
Learning Pit
We explored the Learning Pit for Health and Well being. We discovered that James Nottingham came up with the concept of the Learning Pit during his time as a teacher in Nottingham in 1999. He found it a helpful analogy to use with students to help them understand why more challenge leads to enhanced learning. This tool fits in well with the principles of Growth Mindset and is really effective tool to help us visualise our learning journey and see the purpose in what we are learning and understand why challenge and effective feedback are important. Mrs McCartney’s goal this year is to give us all ‘effective feedback.’
Maths
We have been looking at mental addition strategies for adding several numbers together. We started off with smaller numbers and then progressed onto larger numbers. We were working with a partner and shared our ideas with the rest of the class. Ewan had a ‘Eureka!’ moment when he discovered a new strategy for mental additional strategies- great work everyone!!
Have a great weekend everyone!
Primary 5A and McCartney x
Things to remember:
*St Michael’s Christmas Hamper appeal by Friday 25th November please- thank you so much to everyone who has contributed!
