Literacy – P6.24 Blog 2023/24

March 20, 2024

Week Beginning 18th March

Last week primary 6.24 visited the Vue Cinema in Hamilton, and went to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. We all payed close attention to the film, because the following week it led to us to writing reviews about the film in our jotters. In the review, we included information about the film, preferences on the cinema, and our thoughts and opinions about the movie.

Firstly we worked in teams to answer questions about the film

Then we thought about how to club the answers together in paragraphs

Next we produced our own reviews in our jotters

October 5, 2023

Week beginning – 2nd October

We started this week watching an online assembly run by the charity Ada Scotland on Technology in Sport. Practising our note taking skills, we listened carefully and created written reports on what we learned. We were also given the challenge to create a new piece of sports kit using technology to improve sport in some way. Lots of ideas were shared in class and we can’t wait to see if these kits become reality in the future.

We continue to work hard on our fitness in PE and learned a new game using hula hoops and music.

Flowers

Having studied how lilies change over time and looked at them under a microscope last week, Mrs Kelly brought in another bunch this week and our botanists prepared them and put them in water so we can watch them change each day.

Leadership Assembly

Mrs Kennedy led an inspirational assembly on Thursday where all the pupil leadership groups were announced. Here are some photos of us receiving certificates and badges for our leadership roles.

September 30, 2023October 5, 2023

Week beginning – 25th September

Unfortunately we weren’t in school for most of this week due to strike action.

Most of the class accessed online learning through our google classroom which was great. We covered our usual timetable as much as we could with PE lessons, STEM challenges, reading challenges, daily maths activities and an extended writing piece.

September 2, 2023October 5, 2023

Week beginning – 28th August

We’ve been busy this week getting back into routines again, writing in our jotters and remembering all our learning from our previous years in Mearns and in other schools.

One of our tasks this week was to work out our favourite strategies to help us with our spelling.

We also finalised our class charter and a google charter which is now on our google classroom.

June 9, 2023June 14, 2023

Library Visit 📚

This afternoon we visited our school library and explored the wide range of books that were there 📖 📚

November 28, 2022November 29, 2022

Cursive Handwriting ✍🏼

We have been working hard to develop our cursive handwriting in class. Today we focused on joining silent letters and creating block patterns through our joins ✏️

November 17, 2022November 18, 2022

Giglets Online Event 📖

We had a great time this morning at the Giglets online event for their new book Tommy Foghorn 🔈

The author read us the story and then we heard from the illustrator who answered lots of questions about how he created the characters for the story. We saw his concept ideas and how he combined them to make the main character Tommy ✍🏼

This afternoon we are going to create our own versions of the story with us as the main character! ⭐️

November 7, 2022

Solo Talks 🎤

We have had an exciting morning listening to the first group of Solo Talks on the 7 Wonders of the World 🗺️

We have focused on being an excellent audience and giving feedback to our peers 🌟

September 12, 2022September 12, 2022

Writing – Fact Files ✍️

In Literacy we have been developing our note-taking skills through watching informative videos on the 7 Wonders of the World.

We have then created fact-files from the information we gathered and presented this under sub-heading to grab the readers attention.

August 25, 2022

Writing Fact Files ✏️

We have been enjoying our new class topic, The Seven Wonders of the Modern World and today we created Fact Files after researching on the Chromebooks.

We included lots of interesting facts including the country and continent where the Wonder of the World is located, how many visitors there are each year, how old it is and some fun facts.

We learnt about the structure of writing a fact file and using sub-headings to help us layout all of the information that we found.