Numeracy
This week our focus was on subtraction. We all reminded ourselves how to do the formal written algorithm for subtraction ensuring the larger number is on the top. We then worked through explaining how to exchange. This was a good reminder that 1 ten equals 10 units and 1 unit equals 10 tenths etc. We then moved on to look at negative numbers and discussed bank overdrafts, loans and temperatures as common real life scenarios when we need to use negative numbers. Everyone then had a chance to do some calculations with negative numbers and some children moved on to multiplication and division of negative numbers.
Literacy
Using the plans created last week we all wrote a letter home imagining we were an evacuee. We had to capture our emotions and think about what life would have been like as a child back then. This was another chance to use the formal layout required for letter writing. We also finished our STEM applications for Mrs Tulloch and had to draw our invention as part of the application. Fingers crossed we get a winner…
French and Spanish
In French we looked at the use of “tu” and “vous” using informal and formal language. In Spanish we finished our family trees and can now introduce all members of our extended families in Spanish.
WWII
We continued our evacuee research and in groups picked an area to research in more depth. Our sway presentations were quite good, but Mrs Gordon felt they didn’t contain enough information. We shall uplevel these after the holidays.
Church Service
A huge thanks to everyone who attended and walk with us today. The children were fabulous with their buddies and were complimented for their behaviour and the way they looked after them by teachers and parents alike. Well done P7.
Happy holidays from Mrs Gordon and P7a
