This week in P3IL we have been busy in Maths learning all about place value. We have been learning more about the importance of 0 as a place holder. We have been working to partition numbers so we can see how many hundreds, tens and ones are in a 3 digit number. We have been having lots of fun doing this and playing matching games with dienes counters!

In English and Literacy, we have been having A LOT of fun designing and working on our books more. We have also been working using adjectives to our writing to make it more engaging for the reader.

We have also been working hard on practising for the young scots showcase next week. We hope you can make it to hear our beautiful singing!

In our IDL topic for Romans, we have been learning about Roman Numerals and began to learn how to write some numbers in Roman numerals. We also LOVED P3/4NM’s class assembly today all about if the Romans should run the school!

It has been another brilliant week!

P3IL, Miss Low & Mrs. Jacobs

In Numeracy, we have been continuing to focus on money, in particular giving change. We were able to use a 2 part process of adding 2 items together to work out the total cost and then subtracting this from 10p to calculate the change required. We also developed our understanding of finding a half of a quantity and played a game called Half–baked on Education City to support this. We used cubes to find out half of numbers to 10 and are aiming to be able to quickly recall these facts e.g. “Half of 4 is 2”. We also learned how to measure the length of objects using non-standard units.

 “We measured the table using pens and it was 8 pens long.” – Faith

“I enjoyed measuring the sand tray. I had to make sure I didn’t leave gap between the pens.” – Phoebe

“We had to count the pennies and put them on the tens frame. We then had to work out the change.” – Finlay

In Literacy, we learned the ‘x’ sound and had opportunities to say, make, break, blend, read and write words with these sounds.  We read Somebody Swallowed Stanley and did a visualising task where we had to draw a picture to illustrate what we think the inside of each of the sea creatures may have looked like for the plastic bag (Stanley). We linked our story into writing and wrote a pledge that we would like ourselves and our family to try to do to help reduce plastic pollution.

“A whale swallowed Stanley. I think it would be all dark inside the whale’s tummy and Stanley would be sad.” – Lucas

“Box has ‘x’ in it.” – Nicholas

“A pledge means something you are going to change. My pledge is to put rubbish in the bin.” – Jayden

In IDL, we continued our Under the Sea topic. We learned about plastic pollution and looked at various pictures of plastic under the sea and on beaches. We discussed what we could see in the pictures, where we thought the plastic may have come from and what we could do to help reduce plastic pollution in our oceans.

“You could find plastic bottles in the sea and it could be open and fish might not see it and might swim into it and die in there.” – Faith

“Animals can die when plastic gets inside them.” – Abigail

“People throw plastic into the sea. They flush rubbish down the toilet.” – Jessica

Literacy

This week we have been drawing pictures about the story The Tiger Who Came To Tea (Grace). We are learning to retell a story to improve our memories and listening skills (William). Our teacher told us the story but she didn’t show us the illustrations. We had to use our memory of the story and imaginations to draw our own illustrations in the correct order to be able to retell the story later (Anabia). It was hard to use our imaginations because we had to think about what the little girl might look like and how the kitchen was designed (Tyler). My favourite part of the story was when the tiger drank all of Daddy’s bear because I thought it was funny (Michael).

Numeracy and Maths

We were working on revising decimals and fractions this week. I drew out pictures to help me find a fraction of a number. This is a good strategy for me to work out the answers (Lucas). We also did a maths assessment with Mrs Jones on Thursday (Dennis). I had to figure out the decimal number in one of the questions and I’m sure I got it marked correct (Ben). I thought the easiest one was the missing numbers in a sequence from smallest to largest (Rebekah).

IDL – Mary Queen of Scots

This week we heard that Mary got imprisoned in Loch Leven Castle near Kinross. We designed maps of Loch Leven and the surrounding area (Lucas). We used tissue paper, paint, black card and chalk on our designs (Amy J). in Ydance, we brought the whole story together up until Mary’s marriage.

We have been practising our Scots songs in class and are looking forward to sharing these next Friday at Alloa Academy.  Look in our school bags for letters about this.

Have a good weekend!

P.4/5

Well we have been very busy bees this week! From learning all about knights to building our junk model castles to creating a fantastic ‘Hodgeheg’ display, we have been working our socks off! We have also been learning lots in Literacy and Numeracy. Let us tell you all that we have been learning this week…

Literacy:

Olivia – In writing we wrote about knights – we wrote about being a page, squire and knight.

Dylan – Some people were learning to use Clicker6 to help with writing.

Sky – We were also learning our sounds – wa, ou and ea.

Channing – We were learning to visualise. Miss Smith read a book and we had to imagine what the pictures would be. It was a book about identity.

Erin – We have been reading ‘The Hodgeheg’ and we created a big display full of hedgehogs.

Numeracy:

Alex – We have been learning to tell the time. We can tell o’clock times and half past times.

Cody – We have been learning to weigh things to see if they are light or heavy.

Emile – We were learning to weigh using balancing scales to see if we could find things lighter, heavier or about 1/2kg.

IDL:

Lucie – We have been making model castles up in the art room. We have been using junk to make our castles.

Konard – We included a working drawbridge on our model and a portcullis.

Amber – We have been learning about knights.

Channing – We learned about pages – you had to be 7 to be a page. They had to use toy swords to learn how to use proper swords when they are older. They also played with hunting birds.

We have been extremely busy this week, with the majority of our work focusing upon getting ready for our Assembly.
– “We practised in the gym hall using our props.” (Mah Noor)
– “We were in the gym hall so we could practise our movements.” (Harry)
– “We got better by practising the songs.” (Callan)

We did a lot of Art this week, to prepare for the assembly.
– “We made the props that we will need and we worked on creating mosaics.” (Emma)

We continued working with Amy as part of the Youth Music Initiative.
– “It was our 2nd last week with Amy.” (Ava)
– “We sang the song ‘Adam and Eve'” (Carly)
– “We were singing ‘The White Cockade’ and we talked about what it was about.” (Erin)
– “We learned some verses of Auld Lang Syne and learned that it means ‘a long time ago’ or ‘in days gone by’. (Lily and Oscar)

See you at our assembly tomorrow!!

This week in Primary 2CF…

It has been another quick, and very busy, week in Primary 2CF.  Thank you to all of the parents and carers who have been able to make it along to Parents Night this week to share our learning.

Here are a few of the things we have been learning about this week.

Maths – fractions, and doubles and halves

“We had to share dots on the back of a ladybird to find out what half of the number was.” Isla

“We cut shapes into halves and quarters.” Angus

“We shared the toppings for a pizza and shared the toppings out equally.  We had to get it right or the customers would not eat their pizza!” Jacob

 Literacy – We wrote about the life of a knight, read more non-fiction books, created a story map for The Knight Who Wouldn’t Fight.

“I wrote about what a knight wears. Underneath their armour they were chainmail.  This is so they are protected when they go out to battle.” Andrew

“When a squire is 21 they can become a knight.” John

“We made a story map for the book.  The mouse is a knight and he reads stories to a griffin, a troll and a dragon to make them happy and so he doesn’t need to fight.” Noah

 IDL – We have been learning about knights, and continuing our work with Mrs Smith during YDance, creating moves linked to our castles topic.

“When a knight turns 7 they are a page.  They are a servant for the king and queen.” Erin

“The page turns into a squire.  A squire helps a knight to get ready before a battle.” Claire

“The knights can fight on horses.” Amber