Another week gone in a flash, and with so much fun learning opportunities, who can be surprised that it is already the end of another week.
We’ve had a busy week in Literacy this week. Looking back at previous writing tasks, we identified the types of sentence openers we have been using. During this task we realised that majority of our sentence openers have been some what boring and that we needed to make them more adventurous. True to Mrs Matos’ style, she dressed up in ‘adventurous’ outfits to demonstrate how interesting our openers need to be, so that our writing is not predictable to our reader. We also went on an adventurous sentence opener hunt, where we had to find fairy doors around the classroom, open them up and find some outstanding openers that we can use in our writing. A very strange message appeared on our board from one of the fairies, I strange pink parcel had arrived in the school, the fairy asked us to write a newspaper report about the strange parcel, her instructions were very clear, that our report needed to answer the questions, who, what, when, where and why and most importantly we needed to use adventurous sentence openers. Mrs Matos was very pleased to read our reports and was very impressed with the variety of sentence openers that were used. We have been developing our comprehension skills in reading. We have been using our hands to help us to identify the main idea in a text. We use our hands to help us, as each finger on our hand is a question that the main idea would answer , such as, who,what, where, when and why. The mysterious journey of Edward Tulane is currently the class novel that we have been reading. We have only read the first few chapters, but we are already drawn into the story. Edward is a character in the story. We created our own interpretation of Edward and we wrote adjectives and similes that we thought best described him. We have been teaching Mrs Matos some Scots language, we recited some poems, Mrs Matos was very impressed with our ability to remember such lengthy poems and the expression and effort we put into reciting our poems. Playing Scots language Bingo, helped us to translate and learn some Scots words, it was great fun…Mrs Matos continues to need support with this !
In Numeracy we continued to work with multiples, factors and prime numbers. We played a game of True and false, and had to prove our answer, and try use mathematical language to convince Mrs Matos that our answer was correct. Growing in confidence we continue to share strategies and talk about numbers during Number talks. We have started to work on negative numbers. We discussed how negative numbers are used in the real world, such as banks, temperature and elevators. To test our prior knowledge with negative numbers, we played a fun negative Artic Adventures game.
During PE with Mrs Matos we continued to practice our hockey skills, we practiced holding the stick correctly , ball control and shooting. With Mrs Reid we continue to learn volleyball skills.
Scottish Colourist has been our focus this week. We spent some time using the netbooks to research about Scottish colourists. We have started to practice sketching a still life, this is a lot trickier than it seems, but with resilience we are committed to continue practising, and later we will be painting our sketches.
Kindness and inclusion are two of our school values, this week we used these two values and played some educational games with our P2 pals, we are learning that by being kind and inclusive that we are able to have fun with all children at Springfield Primary no matter what age.
Mrs Matos and P6a would like to say a Big thank you to Paul who was very confident in sharing a PowerPoint all about his sister and her needs. Paul, you are a very special big brother and you can be so proud of yourself – Well Done, and thank you!
P6A and Mrs Matos
