Ola e bem-vindo a Brazil. Hello and welcome to Brazil. This week P7a have been learning Portuguese as part of our topic on Brazil. We learned greetings and phrases such as “how are you?” and numbers from 0-10. We noticed some similarities to Spanish too. Here is a game we played where we had to match up the English and Portuguese words as quickly as possible. Our winning team was Tamzin, Aidan, Alastair and James.
We did lots of research this week on deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest, we were focusing on the environmental impact of human activity. We found the information quite alarming, especially statistics like the equivalent area of 6 football fields per minute is being destroyed, and that had deforestation continued at the rate it was in 2004, there would have been no rainforest left by 2030. Luckily the rate has slowed significantly, but P7a feel this is still not enough. Next week we will investigate further.
In literacy we learned about figurative language and used our knowledge to create feelings poems using personification to celebrate world poetry day on Thursday. We were inspired by the movie “Inside Out”. We worked in groups of 4 to describe a feeling eg joy, sadness, happiness etc.
To help remember our spelling words we played the games we had created for homework last week. Everyone had great fun whilst also remembering their words. Here some of the girls were playing their version of scrabble.
We had some good news at assembly this morning when Alexander Rankin won the upper school prize for Miss Baillie’s Autumn Writing competition. Alexander had gathered facts about Autumn in Linlithgow and presented them beautifully including some lovely pictures of Beecraigs in the Autumn. Alexander won a book token, well done Alexander!
Happy weekend from Mrs Gordon and P7a.
