Busy days and nights in P7a

To begin this week our school ties finally arrived 🙂 🙂 🙂

This week has been very busy in P7a. We started our research for the assembly, sorted ourselves into groups and wrote our scripts. We have rehearsed a couple of times this week and will continue to do this after the holidays. The assembly is at 10am on Friday 25th October- it will be our last ever class assembly in P7a so we hope you can all come along.

We shone in our most recent duty- time monitors for the teachers at the recent parent nights. The feedback from the teachers and parents was really positive and amazing- we loved helping out and got to speak to lots of different people.

Today E, A and F went to Linlithgow Academy for a language event. When they were there they took part in a treasure hunt, quizzes and got to try some croissants- they were yummy 🙂

Next week we start our Futsal sessions, we will be doing these every 2nd week until December.

We hope you have a lovely weekend, we cannot believe we only have one week left of term 1- what a quick term that was!

P7a and Mrs Newton

P7B

We at P7b, have been learning to compare and contrast  life of a child in Brazil our my own. We learnt about the siblings Samir and Samira.  We then revised our understanding on informal letter writing by pretending to send the letters to Samir and Samira.

For Numeracy, we have been learning to calculate discounts , we revised on decimal place value and practised our number talks everyday.

For Expressive Art, we have learnt different types of shading techniques, tonal shading and highlighting.  We are nearly done with our Caricature, so next week we will be posting pictures of them.

For big writing next week, we will be uplevelling our persuasive text.

 

Have a great weekend everyone!

Busy Britto Bonanza

This week we revisited our knowledge of money and how to use decimal places. This followed on from our work on percentages and fractions. Our problem solving activity was to find the smallest number of squares needed to fill an 11cm x 13cm rectangle. This was an interesting and challenging activity, sparking lots of debate and discussions.

As part of our Brazil topic we learned about Samir and Samira, two children from a favela in Rio de Janerio. We wrote letters to them, telling them about our lives and asking questions about theirs.

As a follow on from drawing faces in proportion last week we extended this learning by drawing self portraits and then used our knowledge of Britto to add tones, shapes, lines and colours to them- look out for these on parents nights.

We chose partners, groups and topics for our assembly on Brazil. Next week we will write our scripts and then rehearse this after the October break (not everyone is here the last week of term so we are doing the preparation early).

We helped our buddies log into the netbooks and played some games online with them. It was a lovely way to end an interesting (!!!) week in P7a 🙂

A reminder that we are all helping at parents nights next week. We all know which time, class and day we are helping at so please ask us if you want to know- oh and don’t forget to come to your appointment.

Have an excellent weekend (2 weeks until the holidays 🙂 )

P7a and Mrs Newton

 

P7b

Our class have worked extremely hard this week, even though it was a short one.

For Numeracy, we learnt how to calculate  percentages from an amount. We also exercised our number talk skills as we demonstrated various ways of multiplying/diving numbers.

For Literacy, we wrote a fact file about Brazil.  We  summarised events in our novels during guided reading.  We also learnt to use question tags (in Grammar).

Expressive Art- we practiced drawing caricatures this week.  Next week, we will use this type of drawing to create a portrait of someone in our class.  We will then incorporate Romero Britto’s style in our masterpiece.

Enjoy the sun this weekend everyone!

 

Short but sweet in P7a

This week was a very short week in class but we still managed to get lots done.

On Wednesday we wrote fact sheets on Romero Britto, using our research and planning on his life and work.

We then continued to develop our skills in Dodge Ball, we are all working much better in teams and have improved our accuracy when throwing.

On Thursday we started to learn how to draw our faces in proportion, this is in preparation for our art lesson next week when we will be doing self portraits in the style of Romero Britto.

We all want to wish Mrs Benton and the Forth Valley Chorus as they compete in the finals of the Sweet Adeline International Singing Competition in New Orleans. They are performing at 10pm tomorrow evening and you can watch this via You Tube (search for Sweet Adeline).

Have a great weekend, the sun is supposed to shine 🙂

P7a and Mrs Newton

P7b

This week our P7b class demonstrated confidence in tackling learning experiences offered to us.

For Numeracy and Maths, we learnt to calculate the area of right angle triangles and composite shapes.  Then we revised on our multiplication and division strategies.  We also practiced finding and simplifying equivalent fractions.

For Literacy, we read a poem.  We used our inference skills in order to comprehend what the read.  We researched the importance  of the Amazon rainforest to the rest of the world.  Using our netbooks, we  searched for the causes and effects of deforestation.  Then we wrote our persuasive essay on Brazil’s deforestation problem. 

For Modern Languages, we counted from 1 to 20.  We played a game of bingo using French words too.

For HWB, we looked at how drug misuse and we learned how they affect the human body.

Have a great weekend everyone!

 

 

 

Talkative P7a

On Monday we taught our first classes as part of our Leadership roles. Sports leaders taught P4, Literacy Leaders taught P5/6 (and got 2 stars and a wish feedback!), Digital Leaders taught P2, Numeracy leaders taught P3, Buddy Leaders worked with P1 and the Newspaper Leaders started interviewing people and some continued writing the paper. 2 of us also had our first visit the the Linlithgow Day Care Centre.

We undertook research on the impact the fires are having on Brazil and the Amazon Rainforest, we then used this information to write persuasive arguments about deforestation.

In Science we were sorting living things into vertebrates and invertebrates and looking at the five kingdoms.

We had a workshop on the mosiac project, this sounds interesting and we need to start gathering old or broken tiles.

In PE we have been focusing on our throwing skills in Dodgeball- we have found it easier to play when we have smaller teams, listen to each other and actually picking up the balls!

On Thursday we had our first French session with Mrs Gordon, she told Mrs Newton (who was with the P1’s, so small compared to us) that we were amazing 🙂

Assembly this week focused on Responsibility- this is when you show a good example to someone else. We then had some Buddy time outside, this was a lovely way to end the week.

Don’t forget that next week is a short one as we are off on Monday and Tuesday.

Deposits for camp need to be paid by the 30th September (thanks to everyone who has already paid 🙂 ).

Have lovely weekend, the sun is supposed to shine!

P7a and Mrs Newton

 

P7b

 

On 3rd of September we went to see the new rugby squad being announced. We also got to play a couple of games of rugby ourselves which was very fun and everyone enjoyed it.

IDL

On the 4th of September we started our topic on Brazil. We also practiced our note taking skills to use when we make a new writing piece.

 

MATHS

We learned how to do written method of multiplication. Some of us did two digit by two digit and the rest of us did three by three digit.

 

LITERACY

We learnt to use the Thesaurus this week and use our listening skills to take effective notes about Brazil.

 

HOUSE CAPTAINS

Congratulations to all the people who got the House and Vice Captain Roles.

Made by GF & MC(:

Another busy week in P7a

This week has been very busy. We went to visit the Peel, took part in a touch rugby event and then watched the announcement of the Scottish Rugby World Cup Squad. It was a very wet afternoon, but we enjoyed it.

In Maths we have created multi digit multiplication and division sums and solved the  Four Fours challenge. Next week we are looking at how to calculate area of non regular shapes, simplfying equivalent and non equivalent fractions and undertaking a problem solving challenge.

We started our research on Romero Britto and Brazil, taking notes on Britto’s life, completing a mapping exercise of South America and comparing our school day to that of a child in Sao Paulo.

We have now started our reading books and finished a comprehension exercise on global warming. Next week we will be writing a persuasive article on the impact that land use has on the Amazon Rainforest and Brazil.

Today we held our House Captains and Vice Captains elections. Well done to everyone who took part and those who were elected. Information on the winners is on the Springfield Twitter Feed.

Hoodies and ties are arriving today, however not until 2pm, so everyone will get theirs on Monday 🙂

Have an amazing weekend.

P7a and Mrs Newton 🙂

 

 

P7B’s First week back

Hi everyone, this week has been a great first week in P7B!

On Monday we did our spelling test to see what level we’re at in our spelling. We also did our leadership talks explaining what role we wanted. We made our envelopes for the time capsule and measured our feet size, hand size and height! (by NG and SP)

On Tuesday we did Daily Rigour.  This gave us quite a challenge.

This week we learned about the work of Romero Britto.  A Brazillian Pop artist.  We had a go at recreating his work in class.

We created our ” Kindness Wall” this week. The purpose of which is to send out positive and encouraging notes to our peers. To boost self esteem, we talked about how we see ourselves and how others see us.  Some of us were surprised to know that there are personal attributes  which we neglect to appreciate.  Our friends help us appreciate these through their messages.

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