Being inspired by last weeks visit to the Edinburgh book festival, we had spent a lot of time this week writing our own monster stories. Although the author Dave Rudden explained the writing process to us, we have been surprised how much hard work goes into writing an extraordinary story. Mrs Matos has taught us about the three parts of writing. First we need to write all our ideas and thoughts down, we did this by making a story map, the next step is using the story map to help us write our first draft, during and after the first draft we practised our editing skills. We learnt the importance of proof reading as we managed to identify errors with our spelling and punctuation, and finally we could write our final draft, we used our edited first draft to up level our final draft of our monster stories. Mrs Matos is looking forward to reading our creative stories which we have worked so hard to complete.
This week in Numeracy we’ve been learning about different ways to collect data, and the reasons why and how we collect data in the world around us. We worked together to complete a survey on the classes, favourite sports, subject, food etc. Using the information we had gathered we drew up a tally chart. Using the tally chart we compiled all the information onto a bar chart. We have also spent some time this week learning to interpret bar graphs, we quickly learnt how deceiving some graphs may look.
Have you ever been worried before? This was a question that Mrs Matos asked us, Mrs Matos read or should we say dramatized the story of a Huge bag of worries. Mrs Matos had her own bag of worries that she was carrying around to, and showed us that if we don’t share our worries with someone how big the bag of worries can become. We confidently shared some of our worries with each other. Mrs Matos also showed us her special box on her table, that if ever we were worried about anything big or small that we can write it on a piece of paper and put it her worry box, Mrs Matos will then read our worry, and will try her best to help us. We created our own bag of worries which we wrote down some of the worries in the bag.
Skipping, Hula hooping, balancing are just a few things we did in PE this week. Stations were set up around the hall, and we had to rotate through all the stations focusing on balancing, jumping, skipping and eye hand co-ordination. Miss Hardie even showed off some of her skipping skills too.
In 1 + 2 this week we practised some vocabulary, such as Salut, Au revoir, Bojour , Bonsoir etc. We focused not just knowing the English translation for each, but how to correctly pronounce the words.
From monsters to French words that sums up our learning, and we eager for it to all happen again next week.
P6A and Mrs MatosA
