It has been a week of numbers. It has been Scottish Math week this week. During the week we have been practicing our timetables. We have played a range of different games to help us to remember our timetables. We followed instructions to make a timetable ‘fortune teller’, we used our ‘fortune tellers’ to play with a partner and to ‘test’ each other on our timetable recall. We have also been playing timetables dominoes and snap. We all have different mental and written strategies for multiplying multi-digit numbers, but this week, we concentrated and consolidating our use of the formal written method for multiplication. Part of Maths week, we joined with P7a and went on a multiplication word problem hunt, we had to use our timetable memory and formal written method to solve the word problems. We had great fun doing this and learnt the importance of communication and team work.
During Literacy this week, we discussed different ways in which we can uplevel our writing. In particular we discussed the use of interesting vocabulary. We learnt that a synonym are words that are spelt differently but share a similar meaning. After using the thesaurus to help us build a word bank of different synonyms we realised how many different, and in most cases much more interesting words we could use in our writing, to make our readers more engaged.
During Primary 7 we will be taking on different leadership roles. Over the last couple of weeks we have chosen the leadership roles we felt we would best suit our skills and share our knowledge with the school. This week we worked together to create a leadership remit for the different leadership groups/roles.
We have spent sometime this week practising for our class assembly. Please come along to our assembly on Friday, 21st September at 10:00 – it will be a motivational assembly on our value, confidence. We have all been working hard to learn our lines and learn the lyrics to the songs that we will be singing.
French with Mrs. Gordon this week, we were learning about fruit! We learnt the names (French vocabulary) of different fruits and using French vocabulary we were asking each other which fruit we liked. We learnt the phrase, ” Tu aimes les…”, we also learnt the vocabulary to reply which fruits we do like. Thank you to Mrs. Gordon, we are enjoying learning French through the games we play.
This week in Science, with Mrs. Tulloch, we went around the school grounds and identified living things. As part of Maths week and science, we looked at percentages, and how we can use this to identify the majority of living things on our school grounds. Thank you Mrs. Tulloch!
Lastly we would like to say a massive well done to DR-S for passing her grade 1 piano exam with a distinction! What an amazing achievement. As DR-S shared with the class, there was one part of her exam which she wasn’t to confident about, but with resilience she achieved the highest mark for that particular section of the exam. Well done, we are so proud of you!
This week P7b won the peg challenge, we have been working hard this week to set a good example, on how to walk quietly through the school. Mrs. Matos is very proud of everyone in P7b, and she wishes everyone a lovely, fun and relaxing long weekend!
P7b and Mrs. Matos x
