A new week is here again…

The weeks are just flying by. We have been busy in all different curricular areas this last week. 

In literacy, we have been looking at note taking, abbreviations and acronyms. We have been taking notes under different headings and then trying to use that to write a short paragraph in our own words to recall what we have read/seen. We have also looked at things that are already in note from and then tried to rewrite them in full sentences. This is what led us onto looking at abbreviations and acronyms and why we might use them. We have learned the difference between them by looking up their definitions.

In maths, we are coming to the end of our multiplying/dividing by 10,100 and 1000 and measuring angles. We are finishing up with naming and drawing different triangles and then creating a picture that includes these triangles. I would say that our confidence with using a protractor has really grown in the last few weeks. Lots of experts now. 

Great progress is being made in basic facts, hopefully lots of  you are practising using the games that are on the blog. Great sense of achievement in the class when we are moving up. 

Keep practising your tables for those that need to 🙂 

We began to look at different festivals/ traditions in world religions yesterday. The children have paired up and are working on presenting to the class (in any way that they choose) what they have learned about their chosen festival/tradition. 

We had a chat this morning about our ‘why?’ What does our learning behaviour look like? How will I know if something is not going well/too challenging/not enough challenge/what is causing you to not get your work complete? Is there changes that need to be made? We are going to be exploring this further so that we all know what our ‘why?’ looks, sounds and feels like. So that each time we are working we can refer to our learning behaviour and see if we are achieving our ‘why?’. 

Yesterday we had a visit from the SSPCA (an acronym) and we got to explore what makes animals feel happy/ sad. We heard that animals have emotions just like we do and it is the SSPCA’s role to try and make sure they make all animals feel happy again (where possible). We got to play about with some catbots at the end which was fun. I was impressed with our sharing and working togetherness :).