Welcome back P5B!

Welcome back to everyone after a lovely Christmas break. We hope that everyone had a lovely time with family, and by the sounds of it Santa was good to all the children.

We have been busy over the last week and a half, reflecting on things that had happened during 2016, we also thought about the things that we had achieved in 2016. With it now being a new year, we thought we would join the thousands of people around the world and write down some of our goals for 2017. We created lovely 2017 flip charts, and under each number we wrote our goal for 2017, we hope to look back at them at the end of the year and I am sure that we would have reached the goals we set for ourselves. We made ‘Lets party like it’s 2017’ booklets,  our booklets helped us to reflect on 2016, set goals for 2017 it also involved a little Math and having us calculate what age we would be in different years.

 

Literacy this week we started writing letters to our future self. This is great fun as we getting to write things about ourselves, and we also leaving special messages for our future selves. We have included special memories and events that have happened that we want to remember. Mum’s and dad’s have the big responsibility to hold onto our letters until the specified date that we have chosen to open them, we will be finishing our final draft this week, and will be bringing them home. Keep an eye out for our letters mum’s and dad’s and remember to keep them somewhere safe.

We have been learning about verbs and adverbs this week. We worked together in groups and identified the verbs and adverbs in the sentence. We noticed that an adverb can tell us how, when and where the verb takes place. We had fun creating our own sentences and asking other groups to identify the verbs and adverbs.

 

Numeracy this week we have been learning to use partitioning and friendly number strategies to solve addition problems. We are really enjoying our number talks discussions, and using the different strategies to solve the problems. We worked in pairs to solve a couple addition problems and also made some of our own addition problems for other groups to solve. We made some very tricky problems, but we managed to solve them using the strategies we have learnt and a little bit of team work.

 

The weather helped us to create some lovely art this week. We got creative and made pictures of ourselves catching snowflakes.

 

PE this week we warmed up with some fun exercises, we  did some army crawls, bear crawls, leap frog and some stretches. We had so much fun at the handball festival just before Christmas, Mrs Matos thought we could improve on our  handball skills with a game of handball. We really remembered so much from the festival, we were exhausted after PE but we had plenty of fun.

 

A have a few things to look forward to next week. On Tuesday morning we will be going to the Rugby club ,  Wednesday morning the RSPB are coming to the school and we will be doing some fun bird watching activities and on Thursday afternoon we have special people coming in to teach us some new dance moves. Hope everyone has a lovely weekend, have fun and plenty of rest because next week looks like it is going to be jammed packed with fun!

Mrs Matos and P5B