Week Beginning 27.06.16

This weeks blog is written by Brandon and Finn.

First of all, thank-you to all that came and supported us by watching our performance. We had a brilliant time learning and creating the show and we are really proud that you all enjoyed it too. 

Literacy

In literacy, we have been writing a persuasive letter to the president of Brazil  because they

are building a Mega Dam on the Xingu river. We thought about how this would affect the tribal people in the area and the animals and their habitats and used our persuasive letter writing skills to tell him about our concerns. 

We were also recapping our knowledge of a how to use apostrophes for possession and omission and learning bout how to use them for plural possession. We completed challenges and played some games to help practise our new skills. 

P.E

In P.E we were playing golden nugget. This helps practise our throwing and aim.

How you play: 

1) You get a tennis ball and some cones.

2) Next, you set some cones up and then get into teams up to 6 players. 

3) Then you take it in turns to hit the other cone.

If you hit it the cone your team gets the cone. The team with most cones wins. 

Maths

We have been identifying parallel and perpendicular lines in 2d and 3d shapes. We have been organising them using Venn diagrams. 

We also did an investigation counting the number of faces, edges and vertices of different based pyramids. We discovered that however many edges the base has, you must add 1 and that will be the number of faces and vertices it has. Each time the amount of edges went up by two. 

Art

We had a special visitor when Mr Long, a local artist (and Necton Primary staff member), came to show us some printing techniques. We learnt all about how he makes his prints and we even had a go ourselves. It was a little messy and quite tricky at times but so much fun. We produced prints inspired by the animals, plants and trees of the rain forest. We were all really proud of our finished results and think they are really eye-catching. 

In other news...

Another thank-you to everyone that came on Thursday to our lunchtime school BBQ.  It was really tasty and it was lovely to see all the families enjoying spending time together at school. Even the sun managed to make a brief appearance.