Numeracy: It’s been a busy week this. We have been continuing to calculate which products are the best value for money. We have had a look at different products and calculated how much they would cost per gram or millilitre. Through these calculations we realised the importance of having a division strategy which would help us with our calculations. We spent some time recapping and practicing using the formal written method for division. During number talks this week, we challenged ourselves with some money word problems. We have been confidently sharing our strategies and calculations with each other.
Literacy: The mysterious journey of Edward Tulane , is our class novel this term. It is a novel that has definitely encouraged a lot of discussion on how the story compares to something similar in our lives. This week we read a few more chapters of the book, and began to ,make some predictions on future chapters. We created a story board based on a part of the story. Some of us were eager to share our story boards with the class. Writing this week, we continued to work on short sentences which can help to create suspense in a piece of writing.
IDL: This week, we began to paint our still life pictures we focused on the main elements that the Scottish Colourists would have used in their paintings. Moving on in IDL this week, we discussed what we already know about the Industrial Revolution, what we would like to learn and key questions that we would like to have answered. To help us with our discussions we watched a short video clip on the Industrial Revolution, Next week, we will dwell further into when the Industrial revolution started and why.
PE: Something different for PE this week, we had our first Rugby taster session this week. We played some tag rugby skill games. We looking forward to the next 5 sessions to follow.
Expressive Arts: With not to long to go now till our big Lion King production, Mr Mac, a drama teacher from Linlithgow Academy came along to help us with getting into character. We played various games that will help us to move around the stage and remain in character confidently. We continued this week with Lion King rehearsals, Mrs Matos is so impressed with all the hard work that all the P6 and P7’s have put into learning their lines, and all the songs. On Friday, Mrs Matos said to everyone that while watching the rehearsals, she was so proud of everyone that she was close to tears. This is definitely a show that you do not want to miss.
P6A and Mrs Matos
