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P7m

Numeracy

We have been learning different fraction strategies to find the equivalent fraction and simplifying a fraction.  We have also been learning how to convert between fractions, decimals and percentages, both with and without a calculator.  We are currently revisiting the four operations in word problems and we will continue to improve our accuracy in our times tables.

Literacy

In literacy we have been working hard on up levelling our writing by using more complex adjectives and connectives.  We had fun pretending to be art critics and did our own reviews on a famous painting called ‘Jeunesse’. We have also created fact files on a chosen influential person and written newspaper reports about Rosa Parks.  We are continuing to read our class novel, ‘The Hunger Games’.

IDL

We are finishing up our study of Black History Month with a focus on racism and what we can do to help stop discrimination in our society.  Our next topic is Oceans.  We are looking forward to finding out lots about micro-organisms, life cycles and climate change.

Health & Well being

For Health and Well being, we have been learning about various challenges that people face on a daily basis when they have autism, ADHD, dyslexia and/or cerebral palsy.  This has led to great discussion about how we should treat other people.

P.E

We have been learning the skills needed for invasion games, such as Basketball .  We worked on teamwork, throwing and catching, shooting and passing.  We also did Tennis and held our very own mini tournament.  We have completed a bleep test and later in the year we are going to repeat that and compare our scores!

Other areas

Spanish – We have learned how to use daily phrases in Spanish.  We can hold a short conversation saying our name, age and when our birthday is.  We can also share our likes and dislikes.  We can ask questions about feelings and respond with detail.

We have enjoyed:

L – “We wrote our own ‘I have Dream’ speeches based on Martin Luther King.”

H – “ I really enjoyed doing our fact files on a chosen influential person.  I chose Nelson Mandela”.

A – “ I enjoyed doing our portraits of a chosen influential person , I drew Marcus Rashford”.

E – “ Writing a response to the painting ‘Jeunesse’ was different.  It made me happy and I enjoyed creating a review about it.”

R – “ I enjoyed learning how to draw portraits”.

K – “ Art has been really interesting, especially doing the abstract pictures”.

Z – “I enjoyed preparing and presenting my personal presentation as part of Home Learning.”

L – “ We have started learning tag rugby which is a fun game that really tires you out!”

What we will be learning next:

We will be learning Mandarin for the next 8 weeks as part of a West Lothian Council Initiative for 1+2 languages.  These lessons will be live streamed via Teams and we are looking forward to meeting our Mandarin teachers next week!

This term we are going to focus on Netball, Tag Rugby and traditional Scottish Dancing for P.E.

 

P5M Learn it! Log it! Blog it!

Welcome back after the October break!

In P5M, we will be looking at lots of new things across our curricululm. and we have made a great start this term by looking at some of them.

We have started a new topic all about Australia. We are looking forward to learning about the people, the food and about Australian cities such as Melbourne and Sydney. We will also be focusing on climate and conservation as part of this topic. In Art, we have been learning about an Australian artist named Ken Done. Ken Done creates colourful artworks of famous Australian landmarks. We created our own art in the style of Ken Done. We used crayon to draw the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House. Then we used watercolour paint to colour the background.

In Maths we will be looking at Measure this term and making links to real life examples – such as estimating and then measuring everyday objects. We have begun estimating lengths and measuring lengths in cm using a ruler.

We are looking forward to taking part in cross-country in our PE this term also.

In health, we will be looking at ‘Celebrating Difference’ and looking at what makes us all unique individuals and recognising how best to celebrate our differences and embracing different personal characteristics.