Sharing Our Learning @ HOB

P2J have been investigating measure.  We have been learning about the standard units used to measure length – centimetres and metres. We took our learning outdoors into the Eco Garden and used metre sticks and rulers to measure the length and height of items – we even learnt how to use tape measures to measure items that are not flat like tree trunks and tyres.  Great investigating!

Time to learn about Time in P2!  We have been revising o’clock and half past and learning all about quarter to and past.  We are excited to watch the clock in the classroom to see what time it says!

We are learning about the history of transport.  We worked hard to research information and prepare a talk for our classmates about a form of transport that interests us.  We have heard about trains, planes, cars,  bikes  – and telehandlers!

We worked in our groups to try and put in the correct when different forms of land transport were invented – from the wheel, to the first roads, to early cars.   Great co-operative learning!

Sharing our Transport talks.  We had to prepare a talk about a type of transport and share facts and information about how it has developed and changed over time.

We are learning to read and set o’clock, half past, quarter to/past times.  We have been playing games in the classroom.

We have been learning about land transport this week and how it has changed and developed over time.  We have been learning about time-lines and enjoyed trying to order and sequence the development and innovations in land transport.

We enjoy our weekly smartboard spelling sessions – where we learn strategies and practice spelling our new common words.

It’s been a busy few weeks in P3. We all enjoyed a trip to Aberdeen Music Hall for a live performance of Gaspard’s Foxtrot by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. It was so exciting to see a return to school visits again. Watching the story being performed by author Zeb Soanes and brought to life by a live orchestra was amazing. And we also loved the bus!

In class we have been inspired by the story, “Say Something”. We created a display to share our views about what we love at HoB, and what we could do to make it even better.

And we have been developing our learning through Thinking Routines. We had a surprise visit from the Easter Bunny, who left us some carrots and asked our opinion on whether chocolate eggs should be replaced by carrots.  Our ‘Tug of War’ routine gave a really clear answer. The Easter Bunny was also delighted with the cards, notes and letters that the children created in response. The question remains – do the carrots REALLY smell of chocolate?

As part of our whole school IDL project, we had some big conversations about what we want people to say about our school and how we could make this happen.  We managed to narrow our ideas down to 4 words which we felt represented our discussion:

– Achieving

– Respect

– Responsible

– Inclusive

 

We worked in groups or on our own to create something which represented the word which we felt meant the most to us.

Both Primary 7 classes visited the Library at Banchory Academy last week as part of their transition.  The school librarian, Mrs Bird, had planned lost of activities to help everyone explore the different areas in a fun way.  Although there were some quiet and nervous faces leaving HOBs there were lots of smiles and laughter on the way back.

Springtime and celebrating our Mums!

We have enjoyed looking for signs of Spring on our daily mile and have been painting daffodils in the classroom.  We are taking our paintings home along with our Mothers’ Day Writing.  We have been focusing on using adjectives in our writing so we used lots of adjectives to describe our amazing Mums!

P6 Reading Buddies Session

This week we enjoyed our second session with our P6R Reading Buddies.   Our buddies read us a story and we read our reading books aloud to them, finishing with a five finger retell of our story.

Learning French with Camembear! 

We were learning about Camembear’s life in France this week and we practised sharing our names in French in our learning circle.

 

 

 

We have had a busy week in P6B.  The children have completed a fractions and decimals topic in maths and ended the week working out percentages.  In writing we are continuing our Talk for Writing programme and have been using the Elf Road story to practise making story maps, alliteration, adding dialogue and using interesting adjectives, verbs and similes to add detail and atmosphere to our writing.

We met our P2 Reading Buddies for the first time and shared a story with them, everyone enjoyed the experience and we are looking forward to continuing this in the summer term.

We ended the week completing our work on ‘Say Something’.  We were asked to think about what we wanted for our school and how we could achieve it.  The class came up with some great ideas to share and have made posters, mini film stories, adverts and news reports to share with the rest of the school.

This week P6R have been concentrating on some “short burst” writing as part of our “talk for writing” work.  We have been building a tool kit to support us in our writing.  We have looked at the “pattern of 3” to make writing more exciting, giving it pace and rhythm.  We used a “Making Thinking Visible” zoom lesson about a tiger to create a class poem and then our own poems, thinking about the use of adjectives, similes and verbs.  From this some of us went on to create some tiger pictures.  We used a silent clip from the film “Up” to concentrate on dialogue in writing, looking at how to use speech marks correctly and how to use alternative words to “said” to convey meaning.  Using photos of different settings, we created a descriptive scene using some of the tool kit that we have been practising this week.

We had our second meeting with our P2 reading buddies this week.  The P2’s get a chance to practise their reading books with their buddy and then the P6’s read their buddy a book of choice from the book box.  Both classes have been enjoying the experience and look forward to our Wednesday sessions.

It’s been such a lovely week of weather that we have taken our PE sessions outside to practise our skills.