P5-7 are reading the novel Wonder written by R. J. Palacio and have been answering reading questions about the text.

Today they were leading the learning by working with partners to set their own reading questions.  We began by talking about what reading questions are designed to assess:

Then they identified specific question stems:

Here are the questions they created:

We shared our questions and had an interesting discussion about what makes a good question.  The next task will be to answer the questions…

Yesterday, at the forest, P5-7 were doing more work on measure.  This time they had to work with a partner and follow written instructions for measuring a tree.  Afterwards, they all agreed that it was more difficult than they had anticipated.  However, we  had an interesting discussion about the vocabulary used in the instructions as well as considering the factors which may have affected the accuracy of our measurements.  Well done everyone for persevering.

Yesterday afternoon in the forest P5-7 were doing more work on measure.  We were estimating and measuring, then changing our measurements into fractions and decimals.

Kathryn has written this article about our recent tree planting adventures.  Many thanks to Ros Mc Ghee, Charlie Collins and CGDT for enabling this to happen.

Article tree planting

Morag Hood Article (3)

This article was written by Catriona who is in P6  following the visit of Morag Hood we think it is worth everyone seeing what great work goes on at Kilmodan.

We welcomed Morag Hood last week via google meet and had a super morning discussing her books and having a go at drawing Brenda the Sheep ourselves. We were thrilled to hear Morag read her own stories and it is inspring us in our  literacy work too. Thank you Morag!

This week P5-7 were fascinated by the patterns within Pascal’s Triangle . We were able to demonstrate our learning by presenting  a one minute recap on everything we know about Pascal’s Triangle. It was fun!

The staff and children welcomed author Morag Hood to school today on a google meet, we all had a great time and there were some  super pictures drawn by the children.

Morag Hood – Author & Illustrator