Friday 20th May 2016

P4/5 have been learning about different fractions this week…here is what the children had to say…

Ashleigh “I can work out mixed number fractions by counting how many whole ones can be made and how many are left over.”

Eilidh “I have learned about equivalent fractions and how to convert a decimal into a fraction.”

Meghan “I have learned that a sixth means one whole one cut into 6 equal parts. Like in a pizza.”

Kalley “I know how to find a fraction of a number now and I can use a fraction wall to work out equivalent fractions.”

We have worked hard on other things too…..

Kiara ” I have enjoyed learning the different spellings for the oa sound (oe, ow, oa, 0-e).”

Finlay “I have worked hard learning my lines for the school show. We have had rehearsals this week for the first scene for ‘Shakespeare on Trial’ and we have also had fun learning some of the accompanying songs.”

This morning we were learning about musical notes with Mrs Grenfell. Mrs Sutherland came back just in time to hear us play a tune and she cleverly guessed that it was our version of Twinkle Twinkle. Here are some of us enjoying our music lesson.

We started a new topic in P5/6 this week – Caribbean Islands. We are going to be learning all sorts of information about the Caribbean. We started with a whole class carousel activity and then afterwards decided for which of the islands we are each going to be making a factfile. Everyone is super excited about this topic – we are simply bursting with ideas for study!

In P5/6, the Bruce reading group are reading “The Demon Headmaster” – a book all about a spooky headteacher…

He has taken to hypnotizing the children and teachers!! We decided to write a new blurb for the back cover to encourage other people to read this spook-tastic and hypnotic tale…oooo-oooo-ooooooooh!!!!! 

We have a new Maths Station in the class. We can choose an activity from here when we are finished our work. Today we were building number recognition towers, practising number formation, sorting the dinosaurs into doubles, matching numbers with the spots on the dice and playing a game on the laptop where we had to find the missing number. Have a look!