This has been a very busy week filled with lots of new learning. Over to you kids;
We have been continuing to develop our mental maths strategies through our number talks. Miss Smyth came to our class to see how well we are doing with this. (Abi)
We have been working with money this week in maths. We have been working out money problems. To work out a word problem we use 2 coloured pencils. We circle numbers with one colour and mathematic vocabulary with the other. We throw away all the other words so that we don’t get confused. –Louise
This week for writing we wrote an imaginative story called ‘The Night Before Christmas’. We watched the Sainsbury’s advert and listened to Christmas songs to find good vocabulary and descriptions to help with our writing. – Lewis
We explored a passage called ‘ The Mysterious Gentleman’ to find alliteration. We looked at other examples of alliteration and came up with sentences of our own.
Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper. Nasim
Santa’s Shining sparkley sleigh – Lewis
This week in P4/5 we have started a new Science topic ‘Forces’. We went on a magnet hunt to look at push and pull forces. Lukasz
I used a magnet to see if a mental pole was magnetic and it was. Joshua
Our tables that are made of wood are not magentic. Lewis
This week was the beginning of Advent. We learned what each candle in the advent wreath represents.
Week 1 – Purple (Hope)
Week 2 – Purple (Peace)
Week 3 – Rose (Joy)
Week 4 – Purple (Love)
Christmas Day – White.
We made our very own wreath for our class Alter. (Mirren)
We hope you all have a great weekend starting off with our Festive Fun afternoon.
Mrs W and P4/5
Thank you for sharing your highlights with us P4/5. It’s great to read that most of the classes have looked at Advent this week and learned about the meaning of Advent. We’ll continue this at assembly next week.
I love the strategy you are learning to tackle number problems. That sounds great! Miss Smyth told me how impressed she was by your efforts and learning. Well done.