In French this week we were practicing key weather terms. We listened to some French presenters talking about the weather and tried to identify the words we knew. Then we did some written work on the same terms and then we worked with a partner to practice speaking about the weather, pretending we were weather forecasters presenting the weather for different towns in France.
In our topic we continued to learn about the life and times of Mary, Queen of Scots through scanning and comparing some interesting accounts of the lives of different people in different parts of Scotland during the 16th century. In addition, we explored the use of code and encryption by the royals and nobles during Mary’s lifetime, we made up our own codes and asked our friends to decode our messages using our key. This was challenging because we really had to pay attention to what we were writing and think about our spelling. We also had a really good discussion about how code is used today, with lots of excellent examples suggested by the class, including braille, sign language, morse code and secret messages we might make up ourselves to share with friends.
Our maths focus this week has been multiplication. We’ve revised multiplying by 10 and extended this to think about multiplying by 100. Some of us found this quite tricky, so it would be a great thing to practice at home, being sure to identify what happens to our place value each time, and the pattern of adding ’00’ each time we multiply something by 100.
We hope you are all having fun in the snow and keeping nice and warm Hopefully we will all get back together on Monday!
