We have had a lovely week this week.  We have started our new poetry unit and we have explored some poems together, learning all about the structure and features.  We wrote some fantastic similes and metaphors about some photos of the sea and we used our comprehension skills to explore a poem about a dragonfly.  We worked in groups to present a poem to the class and Mrs Brown was so proud of us for performing confidently, projecting our voices clearly and using actions to engage our audience and help them to create images in their heads.  Next week, some of us are going to perform them to Primary 4a.

In maths, we’ve done lots of work on mental calculations.  We have done lots of number bond practise and Mrs Brown has asked us to keep practising this at home so we can become really fluent and fast and recalling these. We’ve also been sharing our strategies for how to calculate mental addition and subtraction calculations and we’ve explained these clearly using mathematical vocabulary such as ‘partitioned’ or ‘tens’ and ‘ones’.

We have also practised our Spanish greetings and we had some short conversations with our classmates in Spanish, using questions and answers.

Mrs Brown has asked us to make sure we bring in our spelling books on Monday (because that’s when we get our new spellings).

Well done to Paige who is our hot chocolate winner this week!  She listened really carefully and produced a fantastic poem analysis.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Mrs Brown