Wow! It is December and nearly the end of Term 2. How did that happen?
This week we have been doing many of our end of term assessments.
In Maths we have continued learning all about money. We are able to work out money word problems and recognise what calculation we need to do to work it out. We know that if we want to find a total amount we do an addition calculation. We have been focusing on change this week. We can use our previous knowledge of subtraction to work out how much change we would receive.
For reading this week, we read all about Christmas around the world. We learned lots of new facts about how other countries celebrate Christmas. Did you know that single women in the Czech Republic through a shoe over their shoulder towards a door. If the heel of the show is facing the door they will remain single for another year. If the toe points to the door they are likely to get married. In Poland, many of the families celebrate by having 12 different dishes for their Christmas dinner. Each dish represents each of the 12 disciples. Some of our children from Poland said that their families do this at Christmas. We enjoyed hearing about their traditions at Christmas.
We used our skimming and scanning skills to find information in the text to help us answer some questions about the text.
For writing this week, we wrote an acrostic poem about Christmas. We have a good understanding of the layout of an acrostic poem. We are working on uplevelling our poems by using adventurous vocabulary to describe settings and feelings.
We learned all about the Magi this week. We know that the Magi are the three wise men who came to visit Jesus. We watched a short video about the Magi and retold the story in our own words.
In IDL we learned all about the human organs. We didn’t realise there were so many organs all working in our bodies. We learned about the function of these organs. Did you know that the liver performs all sorts of vital functions in our body from helping us to break down food in digestion to ridding our bodies of toxins. We didn’t know that skin was also an organ.
We are looking forward to lots of festive fun next week with our panto, Christmas lunch and lots of other fun things to look forward to.
Have a lovely weekend.
P4/5 and Mrs W
