Dear readers,

As usual, this has been a very busy week for us!😃

We are always working and that can be very exhausting!😂

During this week we have improved even more our mental addition skills by using a new strategy: partitioning. We have learned to use partitioning when we first started Primary 5 and have now learned how to use it to make our mental addition even easier and quicker. Also in Maths, we have learned about really tricky 3d shapes and their properties and had to be able to describe them in order to get some more of our so much loved house points!😂😂😂

in Literacy, our Spelling words keep on getting more and more complex and we think we are going to be amazing with our spelling in the future because of how much we have been working hard now! In fact, some boys an girls work so, so hard that when it is time for the spelling test, on the Fridays, they don’t even need for Mrs Valente to dictate the words to them because they already know them by heart! This is hard work, no doubt!

Reading comprehension is always a very important task because we then have the opportunity to really look in depth to the extract of the chapter we’re reading and understand it properly. Mrs Valente says we are getting better at ‘reading between the lines’ and she always says that it is very important.

For grammar, we have had lots of fun learning about contractions and have realised that we didn’t know why we used apostrophes lots of times and that was why we sometimes put them in the wrong place. We are hopefully getting better at it now!

In Big Maths, Beat that, the amount of boys and girls practising throughout the week after having finished their tasks is impressive and Mrs Valente is super proud!😍

We have started to draw our elephants which relate to the Topic of the Secret Garden, since the main character, Mary Lennox was born and brought up in India and we have learned how important these animals are in the Indian culture. Unfortunately we have not finished them yet and so you will only be able to have a look at them when we come back after this break, sorry!

And this is only a bit of what we have done this week!😃

We hope you have enjoyed reading about some of the many things we have done and wish you a very pleasant October break!

Love from Primary 5B and Mrs Valente.💕