Numeracy
This week we finished our work on angles. Everyone was able to identify acute, right, obtuse, straight and reflex angles. We also worked on drawing and measuring angles as well as solving problems with missing angles. We then moved onto coordinates and direction. We looked at coordinates in all 4 quadrants and were able to name and plot them accurately. To finish off and consolidate our learning we played battleships with a partner.
Literacy
Last week in literacy we started poems with Mrs Lawrie to demonstrate use of abstract and proper nouns. We then used this knowledge to create a poem which also included lots of figurative language. We finished our class novel “Wonder” which we all agreed was really wonderful…and we have started watching the DVD. We are taking notes and next week will write a comparative piece on the novel and film.
French
In French we looked at the names of body parts. We can all now sing “tete, epaules, genous, pieds” (head, shoulders, knees and toes) in French. We wrote a few sentences about a monster and a partner had to draw the monster, some had about 5 heads…Next week we will use our knowledge of body parts to describe when something hurts.
WWII
This week we finished our Propaganda posters where we had to choose a slogan and use persuasive language to convince the audience to do what we needed. We then went on to hear about and research the Blitz. In partners the children picked a British city that was impacted by the Blitz and used the netbooks to find out some key facts. We shall continue our research next week.
Skills for Learning, Life and Work
We had 2 visitors this week : Mr Vereker who told us about his job in rope access, and Mr Matheson who told us about his job as a software writer as well as other software related jobs. Both talks were very interesting, and as with all of these talks, gave the children an idea of the types of jobs that exist that they may not know about.
Have a wonderful weekend, looking forward to seeing you all at the Lion King next week.
Mrs Gordon and P7a
