At the beginning of the week,as part of topic and Halloween, we were able to look at the witches of Edinburgh in more detail. We linked this to the united nations rights. This helped us to relate these historic events with today as we looked at Nicola Sturgeon's apology at the beginning of 2022.
We also had the opportunity to look at Pablo Picasso and his cubism portraits. Using this understanding we created our own Picasso style portrait of the witches, linking closely to Halloween.
In literacy this week we have began our literacy circles, over the course of this term, for four out of five mornings, we will complete spelling, reading, comprehension and handwriting tasks in rotation. This will allow us to improve our overall understanding of spelling patterns/rules as we look at this repeatedly throughout the week. Well done to everyone who has completed their homework linked to this, please remember that the words are a guide as they show the individual their groups pattern/spelling rule and then your child is encouraged to look for additional words which also follow this pattern/rule.
In numeracy, we have finished off our handling data topic. We have grown in confidence using fractions, percentages and pie charts and ended the week with an assessment to showcase all of our understanding in these areas. We also transferred our understanding unto a digital platform as we used excel to display data.
On Thursday it was outdoor learning day, we will be taking part in one outdoor learning day a term linked to our John Muir Award. On Thursday we looked closely at the fruits and seeds in our local environment and also used our numeracy skills to measure the mean of different leaves in our playground. Please continue to bring in any berries that you collect on your autumnal walks.
Could you also be on the look out for any old cotton white cloth/fabric/old bedding etc. as we will hope to use this for printing/natural dying. Any old white fabric/cloth/material would be appreciated.
Many thanks,
Miss Graham
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