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Another very busy week!

Literacy

This week we finished our class novel ‘A Kind of Spark’. We really enjoyed learning about the main character Addie, who is autistic. We agreed that we all admire her resilience and persistence when faced with a problem. We analysed her character traits and used evidence from the text to explain our reasoning.

We have now started a new novel called ‘Friend or Foe’ by Michael Morpurgo. It is set in World War 2 and follows the story of a boy called David when he is evacuated to the countryside. A home learning opportunity could be to find out more about the evacuations during Word War 2.

Our spelling this week focussed on the rule: tion says /shun/ in the final syllable.  This is the most regularly used spelling of the sound /shun/ as a final syllable. 

Super	Fantastic	Spectacular
election ignition education attention friction invitation operation condition question creation	nation relation solution fiction caution function addition ambition pollution reputation	assumption corruption ammunition aspiration illumination conversation presentation precipitation investigation concentration

Can you find more examples of these words?

Our group reading homework is due for Tuesday 22nd September, please see the reading record for pages to be read.

We learned how to make a time line in Microsoft word. We mapped out the key events in our class novel and added these to the template. We will be using this skill again soon with our group novels. You can practice this at home by following this link with instructions:

https://www.smartsheet.com/blog/how-make-timeline-microsoft-word#download-our-free-timeline-template-in-word

Numeracy

In Numeracy we applied our knowledge of rounding to real life contexts and word problems such as football stadium capacities and distances between countries. If you would like to investigate this further, you could research the populations of different countries and round these to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. Try to think of some calculations you could use these numbers for. Such as calculating the difference between the most and least populated country on your list.

We were also introduced to the rule of the order of operations (BODMAS) and have been applying this to some simple calculations.

Other areas of the curriculum

– we were introduced to Carl Linnaen and his work on classifying animals

– learned about how vertibrates and invertibrates are grouped according to their features

– continued to develop our fitness in circuit training

– enjoying the outdoors and taking part in a rounding scavenger hunt

Enjoy the long weekend!

Mrs Nicholson

https://www.smartsheet.com/blog/how-make-timeline-microsoft-word#download-our-free-timeline-template-in-word

Our Learning this week in P6NM

We have had a very busy week!

You might have noticed that reading books have now been assigned to groups. Over the coming weeks we will be revising the Literature Circle roles using our whole class novel before starting literature circles independently in our groups. For more information on literature circles you can access an overview here: http://www.litcircles.org/Overview/overview.html

We have been enjoying our whole class novel – A Kind of Spark. It has elicited a lot of conversation about some of the themes – fitting in and being different.

In the novel, the main character, Addie is campaigning for a memorial for the historic witch hunts which took place in her village. We heard some information from a local historian online about the Edinburgh witch trials and made some flyers to support Addie’s cause. A home learning opportunity to could find out more about the witch trials in Edinburgh. Please note that parental guidance may be required for some of the more gruesome details.

Children have also been involved in the planning of our new topic, Living Things and their Habitats. We have identified some key questions that we would like to explore:

What is classification?

How can we encourage wildlife in the playground?

What are microorganisms and what do they do?

How do plants and animals benefit society? In particular, what is the importance of bees?

Could we make a food chain/ web?

What are fertilisers and how do they work?

What are the pros/ cons of fertilisers?

We are also exploring the possibility of starting the RSPB’s Wild Challenge Bronze Award. Watch this space…

We started with the key question, what is classification and have started to explore ways to classify groups of animals. A possible home learning activity could be to research different methods of animal classification.

Other areas of learning:

Maths

– multiplying and dividing whole numbers by 10, 100 and 1000

– rounding whole numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000

– sequencing 5 and 6 digit numbers

– solving word problems

Home Learning:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/rocket-rounding

Create questions using your knowledge of multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 to the answers:

A – 76 B – 760 C – 7 600 D – 76 000

Literacy

– discussing the themes ‘fitting in’ and being ‘different’ in our whole class novel – A Kind of Spark

– creating flyers

– practising our new spelling rule – G is soft saying j when it comes before e, i, y

– story writing using the clock tower as a stimulus

– summarising

Home learning:

Make up a Silly Story using as many of your spelling words as possible, make sure to check your spelling against the list.

Health and Wellbeing

– working in partners and teams

– developing our fitness

-identifying the traits of a great class mate

Well done for your hard work this week P6NM, have a great weekend!

Mrs Nicholson