Wow! What a fantastic first term we have had in P4/5. It has been filled with lots of fun and hard work. We have all thoroughly been enjoying our topic ‘The Titanic’. It has been super! We have learned so many interesting facts about the Titanic. We have shared our learning with Mrs Wassell during our learning conversations. Make sure you log into our learning journal to see what else we have been working on this term. This week has been a very busy week. Here we go…
Maths – In maths this week we used our number talks session to revise what we already know about addition within 1000. We all had the opportunity to share different strategies that we use to work out addition sums. This helps us to find the quickest way to work out calculations. We then used what we had learned in our number talks session and applied it to our carousels. We use the make, say, write and do approach. In the write table we practised calculations using mild, spicy and hot. We enjoy this as we can try out some easier sums to warm up our brains and then challenge ourselves. At the do table we were playing addition dominoes with our group. At the make table we created our own addition games that can help us to practise addition in a fun way. At the say station we worked on the netbooks with our peers and talked about what we were learning.
Literacy – We have been learning new spelling patterns this week. We work with Mrs Wassell and Mrs Docherty to learn the new pattern and apply this pattern to many words. We learn lots of new vocabulary when doing this. In reading we have been working on our own reading books and exploring them for exciting VCOP. We also worked in our TRIOS for reading this week. We know we can read a variety of texts and it can even be a video. This week we watched a video of the departure of the Titanic. It was really interesting. We talked about how the music made us feel, made comparisons from boarding a ship in 1912 to nowadays etc.
Writing – In writing this week we wrote a diary entry. We imagined we were a first class passenger on the Titanic. We used our 5 senses to help us. We though about what we saw, tasted, touched, heard and smelt. This really helped us feel like we were on the ship. We could describe how we would have felt. Lewis was our star writer this week. He did a fantastic job and used super vocabulary.
RE – We have enjoyed learning all about the life of Pope Francis this week. We learned that he is from Argentina. He likes football and supports Argentina. Before he was the Pope, he was a Priest, Bishop and Cardinal. He enjoys taking the subway and buses to socialise with all of his people.
ART – This week for art we designed a Christmas card. We put on some Christmas music to help get us in the festive spirit. We can’t wait to share them with you soon.
IDL – We have been learning all about the class system on the Titanic. We did some research about some of the passengers. We looked at some pictures and we compared their clothing, jobs and the food they ate on the Titanic. Did you know that the 1st class passengers ate a ten course meal on the Titanic?
We hope you all have a wonderful October break.
Mrs Wassell and P4/5
