P5 are hunting for lost treasure!

We have continued with our treasure map theme linked to our topic Maps.  Most of us have completed our maps and aged them using teabags, they look amazing!  We achieved our success criteria if we have included a compass and key/labelling on our map.

 

Our maps are linked with our piece of writing and this week we had the challenge of writing our middle section of our adventure story.  Before we started writing we discussed how to include good description and effective speech into our work.  We compared two texts, one which was just dialogue and then the same dialogue embedded in a text with description.  We learned that dialogue in a story must be punctuated with speech marks, and you must say who is speaking.  We then used the following Sky advert to inspire us to use good description within our writing, click on the link below,

Painting Words With Pictures

In Maths we have been discussing sorting data and using graphs and charts to display data.  Our focus this week has been Venn Diagrams.  We have used both two and three circle Venn Diagrams to sort information and the children have all grasped this well.  For extra practise try the game on this link (send a reply if you play it)

Venn Diagrams

World Book Day was a huge hit.  There were some great costumes and many children had put super effort and thought into their character and also brought the book into class for reading during ERIC time.  Here are our class photos.

To finish off our blog today try out our Five-A-Day Spanish fitness challenge.  We have been using it not only to keep us active in class but also to help us pracitse left and right in Spanish and to learn the Spanish vocabulary for up, down, forward and backwards.

Have a great weekend.

Mrs Currie.