{"id":20598,"date":"2022-12-06T10:55:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T10:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/?p=20598"},"modified":"2022-12-06T10:55:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T10:55:07","slug":"p7me-6th-dec-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/2022\/12\/06\/p7me-6th-dec-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"P7me 6th Dec 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Literacy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In literacy this week we have been learning how to structure and write an exposition.\u00a0 We have been looking at persuasive language and vocabulary that we can use to persuade our reader.\u00a0 In comprehension we have been looking at similar texts and answering evaluative questions.\u00a0 We have finished our class novel \u2013 The Christmasaurus Cracker which we really enjoyed and we are hoping to start our new one after the holidays.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Numeracy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In numeracy, we are finishing up a block of integers as part of our Academy transition.\u00a0 In class, we are focussing on decimals and using the four operations.\u00a0 We continue to practise our mental maths every day and our times tables especially the 7,8 and 12.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Topic\/IDL:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have completed another whole school STEAM challenge with lots of exciting activities such as designing and building our own snowball launcher, building the Tallest Christmas tree that we can and designing, building and testing an elf trap!\u00a0 We have also started our Kindness Project where we are making Christmas cards and chocolate coins to say Thank You to people in our community.\u00a0 Next week we plan to visit and deliver our Thank You gifts to spread some Christmas cheer!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Achievements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our coasters have sold well as part of our Enterprise project, if you did not have time to come to the Christmas Fayre, they are still on sale if you wish to purchase.\u00a0 Just send in money with your child who can buy them at the tuck shop.<\/p>\n<p>We had a successful transition morning on Friday at Armadale Academy where we took part in various activities with the S6 leadership team.\u00a0 Our favourite activity was the scavenger hunt!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>J \u2013 I enjoyed our Enterprise project and helping out at the Christmas Fayre.\u00a0 It was so busy!<\/p>\n<p>R \u2013 I liked the ending to the Christmasaurus cracker.<\/p>\n<p>L \u2013 I can\u2019t believe we are nearly halfway through P7.\u00a0 The Academy looks good through, we had pizza for snack!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literacy: In literacy this week we have been learning how to structure and write an exposition.\u00a0 We have been looking at persuasive language and vocabulary that we can use to persuade our reader.\u00a0 In comprehension we have been looking at similar texts and answering evaluative questions.\u00a0 We have finished our class novel \u2013 The Christmasaurus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16801,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16801"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20599,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20598\/revisions\/20599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/windyknowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}