Our blog post below tells you about our learning this week.  We hope you enjoy reading it!

Literacy

In Reading, we have been continuing with our class novel ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’.  We have read up to chapter 5 and we are really enjoying the story so far!

For each chapter, we have enjoyed making a prediction about what we think might happen.  After each chapter, we have written a one sentence summary, where we have chosen the most important detail/ event.

This week, we completed a Metalinguistics sheet where we explored using different strategies to find the meaning of new or unfamiliar words.

We also used the ship’s log written by the main character, Michael, to create a timeline of his journey so far.  We selected important information such as places he has visited and animals he has seen.

Spelling

In Spelling, we have been focusing on the ‘h’ phoneme.  We have completed handwriting activities and have diacritically marked our spelling words.

Numeracy

In Numeracy, we have been exploring the topic of money.  Some pupils have been solving monetary word problems using standard algorithm.  Pupils have taken their time to work through calculations to make sure they show exchanging or carry over.

Other pupils have been learning about buying items and spending within a budget.

RE

In RE, we are continuing with the Pope Francis Faith Award.  We have started exploring how we use the Gift of Understanding in school.

PE

On Wednesday we took our tennis lesson outside.  Pupils were working well with each other to return the ball successfully over the net.  Next week we will try some mini games!

On Thursday, we focused on some athletic activities, including hurdles, javelin and target practice.

IDL

To link in with our class novel, we have begun our new topic of ‘How can we keep our oceans amazing?’

We have been exploring food chains and, in particular, the ocean food chain.  We have found out about the different levels of the ocean food chain and the different animals that are in each level.

Outdoor Leaning/ Digital Technologies

On Friday, we enjoyed taking our learning outdoors when we went to the Knowe garden to explore and appreciate the nature around us.  We worked in trios as we developed our photography skills by selecting flowers and plants to take pictures of.

We then took the time to sketch different flowers, taking note of the colour, shape and size of the different plants growing so close to our school.

Open Afternoon

On Thursday afternoon, we enjoyed welcoming parents and carers into our classroom to share our learning.  We hope that you all enjoyed taking part in the different activities around the classroom.

We have had a very busy few weeks in Primary 6!

Last Monday, the whole school came together for our Remembrance Assembly, which was led by our Primary 7s.

In Numeracy, we have been looking at using Mental Strategies to help solve Subtraction calculations.  We have been looking at changing calculations by ‘keeping a constant difference’ in order to make it easier to calculate the answers and also using our knowledge of place value to subtract multiples of 10, 100 and 1000.

We recently finished our class novel, The Selkie Girl, and so have moved on to looking at and exploring non-fiction texts.  Both of the non-fiction texts (‘On the Shore’ and ‘Marine’) linked in nicely with The Selkie Girl story, as well as the ‘Climate Ready Classrooms’ event that we took part in last Wednesday, alongside Primary 5s and Primary 7s.

For the Climate Ready Classrooms event we worked in groups with Primary 7s and attended three different workshops related to climate change.  In the first workshop, we conducted an experiment using two glasses of water, to represent the impact that greenhouse gases are having on the Earth.  The second workshop was all about ‘Biodiversity’ and for this session we created a Web of Life diagram, which demonstrated how all living things are connected and interdependent.  We then created a school Action Plan with Primary 5 and Primary 7 to agree on ways that we can reduce energy use and encourage biodiversity across our school!

We enjoyed this event so much, that we have started writing a recount of it.  Check out our introductions in our snapshot jotters!

Last Thursday, we enjoyed welcoming parents and families into our school for our Snapshot Afternoon.  We enjoyed sharing our learning and showing examples of our work.

In PE, we have made a start on Scottish dancing to prepare for our Christmas party.  So far, we have learned the Canadian Barn Dance, Virginia Reel and the Military Two Step.  The pupils that took part in our Day of Dance last week have been keeping us right with the correct steps!

We have also made a start on our Christmas art.  We are so happy with our progress so far!

 

We hope you enjoy looking through our Snapshot Jotters!