We were all book worms this week. Check out some of our amazing costumes.
On Thursday we celebrated World Book Day with a few challenges. Firstly we used our Maths skills we have been learning in Information Handling. We worked in pairs and had two extracts from well known books, our job was to count how many words were in a sentence for the extract and then draw a comparative bar graph to show our findings. This was a great way of applying our recently learnt skills and deepening our learning and understanding of how graphs can be used to find out information. We also completed a Literacy challenge…to write a ten words story! Sounds easy but it required a lot of thinking of how to convey the main message of a story in ten words. Some of us even managed to get a couple of adjectives into our stories. Keep your eye on the blog next week as we are going to post some examples of the Literacy work that we have been focusing on so far this term, there are some amazing examples.
We have also continued our learning about WWII and using this to help us develop our learning skills across the curriculum. For our writing we used the context of creating a memoir from an evacuee child’s view point on the day they had to leave home (some of us flipped the activity and wrote from the parents perspective!). To achieve this we used a success criteria which focused on using descriptive vocabulary as well as emotive language to describe this event. We also applied our learning from our VCOP starter activities to ensure we used good tools for writing to showcase our work. Again some examples will be posted in the course of the week.
In PE, Russian Longball has proven to be a great success, we have adapted the rules to the game to suit our needs and gym hall environment and it is great fun! Mrs Currie even got into the game by being the bowler and took a few head hits from a stray ball or two (I would hope they were accidental!)
Another fantastic week!
Have a lovely weekend.
