Another learning filled week. There is no lazing about in Primary 6. We started our week off with some various warm up exercises and then some classroom yoga. We had to make sure that during our exercises we were conscious of our space. During yoga we needed to try and keep our balance throughout the different poses. Next week we will be back in the hall and continue to learn some more basketball skills.
Using the netbooks, we worked with our partners to create a PowerPoint. We researched the different features and places that the River Forth run through. We used the information that we have gathered to create a PowerPoint presentation. Next week, we will be presenting this to the class.
Comment ça va? In French this week, we learned the vocabulary for asking someone how they are doing, and we learned the vocabulary for how we would reply to this question. We paired up with a partner and we practiced how we would greet someone, ask how they are, respond to being asked how we were doing, ask their name and tell them our name. We had the whole conversation in French!! Next week Mrs Matos will be recording our dialogue so that we can listen to our pronunciations. Ask us to share with you the vocabulary we have learned.
We have listened to some more chapters of our novel, Wonder. We have gotten to the part in the story of where August ( main character), is going on a tour of the school. We were also introduced to three new characters, Charlotte, Julian and Jack. After listening to the school tour chapter, we stepped into the shoes of August, we started to plan a diary entry of the school tour. We learned some key features of a diary entry. When planning we needed to make sure that we included how August was feeling , his thoughts on the three children and describe what the school looks like. This week we completed our Autumn poems for Miss Baillie’s competition. Even though none of us won from our class, Mrs Matos was very impressed with the quality and creativity of our work. make sure to read our poems when you come along to parent’s evening next week. In Literacy we have been concentrating on editing skills. We have been reading a passage, and needing to identify, capital letters, punctuation and spelling, we all editors in the making. To reinforce our weekly spelling words, we played some active spelling games, such as hangman, scrabble, and used some foam to write our spelling words in.
In Numeracy we finished with rounding numbers in addition and subtraction. We have started to multiply and divide numbers within 10, 100 and 1000. We have learned that multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000 that we do not only just add a zero, but rather that the number is 10 x bigger than or 100 x bigger, or 1000 times bigger. We’ve been working on our mental agility through our weekly number talks, our mental maths workbooks and we have been getting a head start on the National Sumdog competition.
We’ve been learning about the golden rule in RME this week. We learned that although worded slightly differently, all religions have the same golden rule, and that is that we should treat others how we would like them to treat us. We looked and discussed the different ways the golden rule has been written for each religion. We agreed that even if you do not follow any particular religion, the golden rule is still a great rule to follow.
