Year 7: The Penguins: Blog items
Penguin Projects, by Mr Pearson
Date: 3rd Feb 2020 @ 1:32pm
Another set of amazing projects from the Penguin children and parents,
Penguins spellings, by Mr Pearson
Date: 3rd Feb 2020 @ 1:17pm
This weeks spelling focus words are
early
Earth
eight
enough
exercise
experience
experiment
extreme
All the e words from the Y3/4 word list
Week ending 31 January, by Mr Pearson
Date: 3rd Feb 2020 @ 1:17pm
This week in our English we had a new topic Aladdin and a new way to do our story writing. The way it worked was we write what Mr Pearson does on the right hand side of the page and then we write indepentently of our own.
In our maths lessons this week we leant about what is the same between a fraction and the decimal.
In our grammar lesson, we learnt our weekly spellings which were ‘mixture adventure, capture, feature, moisture, nature, picture and vulture’ we learnt different ways to learn them one of them were practicing them by pyramids.
In our topic lessons we learnt about roman baths by explaining the parts and then we wrote a fact file saying all the parts in it.
In our French lesson we recapped everything we have done like numbers up to 20, the rooms of houses and learnt people’s names like mum in French is ma mere.
In our Cricket we did catching throwing and bowling drills in teams of 5 in 5 teams.
In our I.T lesson we had a go at online instruments like piano guitar and others.
In guided reading we did a whole class comprehension called pharaohs and mummies from Mr Pearson booklet called comprehension ninjas .
By Oliver and Lucie with help of Evie 😊
Charity - Australia fundraising, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 7:50pm
Thankyou to everyone who donated their loose change to our Australian fire campaign. This afternoon the children covered a map of Australia and the words adopt a koala. The coins covered it all perfectly.
Linda will be adding it all up next week and then I’ll let you know the total.
Thank you again.
Week ending 24 Jan, by Mr Pearson
Date: 24th Jan 2020 @ 1:16pm
At the start of the week in our maths lesson we did our division and multiplication method however the questions had remainders in the answers. We have been focussing on our times tables as well. Please check out the maths section of our class page for links to some amazing resources to help you learn them.
In our English lessons this week, we planned our ideal weekend we were given a temporary pen license, which is why we had to write it in ink.
In our topic lesson we were learning all about the digestive system on.
In our grammar lessons in our weekly spellings which are ‘guardian, guide, guitar, guilty, guest, guard, guarantee, guinea pig, guillotine guess’
In our French lesson, we watched a three little pig video in French and in music we have playing our recorders and have been learning time table songs.
In sport we did some running techniques and used the running track. We the had Mark the cricket coach in to give advice how to throw and hit the wicket.
Times table test website, by Mr Pearson
Date: 23rd Jan 2020 @ 11:49am
Dear Parents
As you will be aware in June this year all Year 4 children will be assessed on their times tables knowledge. This means that your child will need to be fluent in all of the times tables up to 12 x 12.
To prepare for the assessment our maths homework for the immediate future will be to learn a focus times table each week. The children will need to know the answers in a random order and not just be able to count on, as in the test the children only have 6 seconds to answer each question. We will assess the children on a Tuesday in the back of their maths homework book to enable you to keep a check on how your child is progressing. We would hope all children would score full marks, however any child who makes several errors will keep that times tables focus for the following week. Your support in this matter is invaluable and will benefit your child greatly as they progress through school.
This is the website we will be using to practice for the test in June
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check
Penguin's spellings 20 Jan, by Mr Pearson
Date: 20th Jan 2020 @ 8:01am
This weeks spelling focus is words that begin with 'gu' including the following
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guide |
guitar |
guard |
guidebook |
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guest |
guardian |
guarantee |
guess |
Week ending 17 Jan , by Mr Pearson
Date: 19th Jan 2020 @ 5:22pm
This week has been check up week and we have competed tests in maths, reading and grammar, punctuation and spelling.
This week in English we learnt all about complex sentences on Monday, we have also been looking at inverted commas. We then used a short film based on the Romans to write our story.
We have studied how the Romans built their roads and the reasons why.
We have been learning our lines and songs for our class assembly.
In this week’s maths lesson, we have been learning a lot about fractions of amounts for example 7/10 of 60 = 42. We keep learning and practising our times tables this week we are focusing on 8’s
Moving on to French, we learnt all about the 8 rooms in the house learnt in French.
Instead of P.E maths we did drama and retold the story of snow white, then did our own story to not talk to strangers.
On Friday we presented our class assembly based on our topic the Romans. Everyone agreed it was great acting and singing and we shared our knowledge with parents and the rest of the school.
Class Assembly, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 17th Jan 2020 @ 7:46pm
Well done on an amazing assembly Penguins. We all learnt lots of facts about the Romans.
Mrs Catterall
Reading Rocket, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 8th Jan 2020 @ 10:38am
Our Reading Rocket is now complete.
Well done to Year 3 and Mrs Atkinson and everyone who brought in egg boxes.
Christmas party., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 20th Dec 2019 @ 5:06pm
I few pictures of the party, I was busy dancing away most of the time, 😂
Friday 13 December, by Mr Pearson
Date: 13th Dec 2019 @ 1:22pm
Maths
This week we have had a very busy time learning all about the equivalent fraction which is why you have the homework of fractions so that was what we were doing this week in maths.
English
We were focusing on the story `The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe`. So first we read the first part of the story trying to predict what would happen next in the story. We also wrote a letter to the children’s mother about our concerns about Lucy’s adventure in Narnia
Writing
On Friday we watched a film called Mog’s Christmas Calamity and had to retail the story through Mog’s eyes.
Spellings
This weekly spelling was though, although, dough, through, breakthrough, thought, bought, brought, fought, ought
We are looking forward to the pantomine on Tuesday and our Christmas party on Wednesday.
Christmas dinner Penguins , by Mr Pearson
Date: 12th Dec 2019 @ 7:49pm
We enjoyed our Christmas Dinner
week ending 6 12 19, by Mr Pearson
Date: 6th Dec 2019 @ 3:36pm
At the start of the week we went to Barden Primary School and watched there Y3 and Y4 Christmas play. We kind of got to meet them, introduce ourselves to them.
In writing, we were focusing on the story `The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. We started reading the book and write what would happen next and then on Friday we started watching the film.
In maths, we did fractions into decimals. So, what we had to do was Mr Pearson gave us a fraction and we had to write the decimal of it 23/100 = 0.23. We have also been investigating equal fractions.
We have been doing lots of times tables and Mr Pearson has been testing us on our understanding.
A quick message all of you need to know your times tables by June ready for the test.
By Oliver and Lucie 😊
Barden trip, by Mr Pearson
Date: 1st Dec 2019 @ 8:29pm
Don't forget tomorrow (Monday 2 December) we are going to Barden Primary school in the afternoon.
we are aiming to be back by the end of school, however depending on traffic we maybe a few minutes late. I will update the twitter account on our journey back.
Times tables , by Mr Pearson
Date: 29th Nov 2019 @ 4:19pm
This is a a good page for support with times tables
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCllFxIfCNYQvsRepWxT7n8A/search?query=times+tables
Click here to practise a test
Penguins 23 November, by Mr Pearson
Date: 28th Nov 2019 @ 12:00pm
In P.E, we had to find different ways to get across a bench and some gymnasts did cartwheels across the bench. At the end of the bench we had to do some sort of jump onto the mat.
In Geography, we did a facts file about Antarctica. How we got the information was from sheets with facts and the internet. We have looked at the weather in the topics and have started planning our own weather report.
In maths, we were mostly trying to learn all our times tables and different strategies in multiplication mentally.
In English, we learnt about conjunctions and putting them into sentences and using them in our writing we have started looking at information texts.
In French, we decided food with like, dislike, love and dislike.
In Grammar, we tried to understand the difference between nouns and pronouns.
On Friday, we did a class write we based on the film Artic Circle we had to rewrite the film.
From Oliver, Lucie and Mr Peason 😊 😊😊
Films of Penguins rockets, by Mr Pearson
Date: 26th Nov 2019 @ 8:26pm
Rockets launches , by Mr Pearson
Date: 26th Nov 2019 @ 8:14pm
Film of the end of school rocket launches
Rocket fun, by Mr Pearson
Date: 26th Nov 2019 @ 12:46pm
Launching our own rockets with Steve the founder of Starchaser.
Super swimmers, by Mr Pearson
Date: 26th Nov 2019 @ 4:29am
We know penguins are excellent swimmers, well two of our Penguins here at Longton have been successful in the pool. Oliver and Lucie have been successful in Their swimming club gala. Two days of swimming at the weekend definitely paid off. Congratulations
Investigating factors, by Mr Pearson
Date: 18th Nov 2019 @ 11:46am
A practical investigation using arrays to identify factors of different numbers.
Week ending 15 November, by Mr Pearson
Date: 17th Nov 2019 @ 12:36pm
Weekly spellings and this week were (immature, immeasurable, impossible immortal, imperfect, impatient, immovable, impolite, and improper)
Next on Monday, in grammar all the class did a whole class comprehension based on Remembrance Day with tricky questions.
Coming onto writing, we had tried to plan our own story based on Mousehole Cat and then on the next day we started writing our own story using our plan and we ran out of time to do it on Tuesday, so we kept on doing it on the next day and a few of us finished it on Wednesday. On Friday, we used editing stations around the classroom to edit our final piece.
In maths, we were focusing on leaning the 6 and 9 times table, we have been studying division facts. We are becoming fluent and are now developing mastery skills by using and applying our knowledge.
In Geography, we have studied the Arctic and Antarctic areas. Did you know that if all the ice melted on Antarctic Longton wouldn’t exist anymore as sea levels would rise 65m!