All children returned back to school refreshed and rearing to learn after a lovely long weekend. Although we only had a three day week, we were definitely very busy.
I numeracy this week, we completed some work on rounding up to 7 digit numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000’s. We have shown great understanding on rounding through a variety of activities. Next week we will be using our rounding knowledge to solve addition and subtraction problems. On Thursday Mrs Kerr joined us in the classroom to take part in our weekly Number talk. Number talks is helping us to improve our mental maths by using a variety of chosen strategies, we get the opportunity to show our understanding by sharing our strategies with the class. Mrs Kerr was very impressed as we were able to solve 3 digit number added to a 3 digit number mentally. Majority of us preferred to use partitioning as our strategy and we all agreed it was the most effective strategy to use at the time. I wonder what strategies we will use next week, perhaps rounding up or down?
Continuing with our class novel, Wonder , we learned how to create a balanced argument. We wrote reasons for the main character, August should attend school. Through our writing we learned that you can not just give a reason but you also need to give evidence to support your reasoning. We really had to use our memories to gather evidence from the story. We have also been working on our editing skills, we worked through a passage and identified the punctuation errors. We never realized how important punctuation is, and how the meaning of the sentence can change if not used correctly . A funny example Mrs Matos shared with us was, ‘Let’s eat grandma. Let’s eat, grandma’. To finish off Literacy this week we looked at Homophones, there, their and they’re….ask us if we can give you example to identify the different meanings.
We continued to use the Atlas to help us identify the different countries in the UK. We needed to identify and label the countries. Next week we going to look at the main features in Scotland and we will be labelling them on our maps.
We have entered into the Gap UK T-shirt design competition. The competition is linked to our Novel, Wonder. We needed to design a T-shirt that shows our idea of what Kindness means. The exciting part is if we win, out T-shirts get printed and sold in Gap stores to raise money for an anti-bullying charity. Mrs Matos was very impressed with our designs, let’s hope the judges will be too.
P6A and Mrs Matos
