We have been busy once again in P6A. With so much going on there is no time to waste but plenty of time for fun and learning.
This week in Literacy we completed an active spelling task. We used magazines to find the different letters that would be used to make up our spelling words. This was great fun, and this has helped us to reinforce our weekly spelling words. We are continuing to read our book Wonder, the book has taken a slight twist, where the narrator is no longer the main character, August, but rather this time it is his sister, Via. Via quotes a line from the song Space Oddity, we had a look at the songs lyrics and shared our ideas and thoughts on how the song links to the novel. In the novel, Via describes one of her favourite, most special days she had with her Gran, we had an opportunity during Literacy to use descriptive writing to write about a day that was very special to us.
Over the last week, we have been looking at angles in Maths. We looked at how we are able to identify different types and angles. We used pinboards and bands as concrete materials to create different shapes, and then identify the different angles that can be found in the shapes. Later on in the week we used a protractor to start to measure angles. At home ask us to find different angles in the environment and see if we can tell you what the angle is called.
IDL this week we completed a KWL ( What I know, what I want to know and What I have learned) chart based on the Scottish Parliament. From the discussions and knowledge we shared in class, this seems like it is going to be a very interesting topic we are going to learn about. We used the netbooks to research the history of the Scottish Parliament and we created a timeline of events.
This week was road safety week. The focus of this weeks Road Safety was on speed. Miss Hardie chose an activity to do with us, where she read out 13 questions really quickly and we couldn’t keep up. This activity helped us to realise that we were very quick to tell her that she was going too fast, that we can also tell a driver to slow down, if they are driver too fast.
What could possibly be planned for us next week?
P6A , Mrs Matos and Miss Hardie.
