We have added a few imaginary countries. Have you ever heard of Olbert, Bellwood, Karunzia, Maccabilia, Beslo, Dibsa, United Eagleland or Britalia? We will soon introduce these countries to you. This week we have been busy typing and searching on the internet. We chose nice pictures and wrote our persuasive texts. Now the adverts start to look really nice! We think that our adverts will make you inspired to go on a holiday to any of these countries. They are spread around the world, so you can choose if you want to travel within Europe or go to Asia, South or North America or visit a new country in the Pacific Ocean.
We are still working with many geography related tasks. We are learning to use maps to locate the position and geographical features of particular localities. We are learning even more how to make maps and plans of different locations, using symbols and keys and we are working hard to use the right geographical terms. We have started talking about airports, where they are located and what might happen when people around an airport start to protest against pollution or noise. When we created our countries, we all wanted to have really beautiful nature, with mountains, rivers and forests, and we all wanted lots of wild animals living there. The environmental and ecological questions are very important. We are designing our own airports and we will absolutely think about these important aspects as well.
In Numeracy, we have continued with measurement – perimeter and area (year 4), time (year 5), we have started organising and interpreting data (year 3) and we have tried to find averages (year 6). Some things are easy to understand, some problems are easy to solve – and sometimes we are challenged and have to use a lot of different strategies to solve problems.
In Literacy, we have worked with grammar, vocabulary, spelling, reading and follow-up. We are all learning to express ourselves more clearly, to choose the right words and think about spelling and punctuation rules when we write independently. We hope that you can see our progress!
On Monday we had our first PE lesson in the big sports hall. That was great!
On Tuesday, Dave visited us and explained more about how a bank works. We now know more about how money is transferred, why we need bank account numbers and why we need money. We even got to transfer money from a fake account to ISG -- for a school trip to all our home countries! What a pity that it was a fake transfer... It was a really interesting visit and we had so many questions. Dave promised us that we could send a mail with all the questions we didn’t have time to ask and he will send us a reply and explain even more.
Both on Thursday and Friday we had birthday parties here in Upper Primary. Vedant turned 8 years old and Bobette is now 9 years old! Happy birthday to both of you!!
Tomorrow it is time for a school community event. Some of us will meet and play bingo! See you there or see you here at ISG next week!