Who may have been executed?

It was important that our blog started off with the highlight of the week. Entering the classroom we noticed something  in the  corner of the room , suspiciously cornered off with tape, and the words ‘ CAUTION’.. We were keen to find out what this was all about. Soon we heard the sounds to the breaking news, and all was revealed, In our classroom was the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. We knew that this news needed to be reported in our P5B news report. We were all quickly trained on how to be creative and factual journalists. We learnt about the three C’s in a news report –  Clear, Concise and Correct. After our journalism crash course we got straight to work gathering facts about Mary Queen of Scots and the lead up to her execution. We made sure we sorted through all the facts and planned what will be important and relevant in our report. We made sure that our opening statement answered the questions, who, what, when, where and why. We are looking forward to reading and sharing our news report with the class next week.

We have continued to learn a variety of subtraction strategies. We have enjoyed sharing and discussing the different strategies that we prefer using during our Number talk discussions. Our Number talk sessions helps us to talk about our thinking and the strategies that we find most effective to use. We worked together with a partner and created a story board of the different subtraction strategies that we can use.

During literacy this week we have been learning about the three uses for the apostrophe. We shared and gave examples of the three uses for the apostrophe. We had great fun singing along to the apostrophe song. The song helped us to learn when to use the words, they’re, their, and there correctly. The song also helped us learn how to use the words your and you’re correctly. Mrs Matos has set us a challenge to check any written work done by the adults at home and see if they make any apostrophe errors. As we discovered the apostrophe can often be used incorrectly. We worked together and sorted out words and phrases that showed if the apostrophe is used correctly. We later became editors and edited a passage from ‘The sea King and the Little Mermaid’. We quickly picked up the apostrophe errors and were able to correct them. We really got the hang of editing when Evie had spotted that Mrs Matos had forgotten out her apostrophe on her PowerPoint. Well done Evie. We guess teachers can make mistakes too.

We did something rather strange this week…We got to relax!!! While it was a type of relaxing. Mrs Matos and Mrs McCartney took us on a journey of Mindfulness.  It was interesting to learn how important breathing is and by breathing correctly it can help us to relax and if we get upset or worried about something, taking only a few minutes to go somewhere quiet and take careful breaths can really help.

Next week we looking forward to our fencing taster session on Tuesday. Hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

P5B and Mrs Matos