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Literacy and English

Literacy Circles

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We sorted our class library into different genres e.g. adventure, friendship, fantasy, horror, comedy. This enabled us to easily  choose  books  according to their genre.

We selected 5 books that we would like to read, 5 books that we might want to read and 5 books that we didn’t want to read. We had to justify our reasons for our choices . We recorded this information in a table.

We started a reading log of books we are reading which will help us make our reading. We will write a book review which other boys and girls can use to help them select a book. Once we have completed books, we will discuss the books with our peers .

We selected our favourite texts to discuss with our peers and we made recommendations .

We are aiming to create a community of readers within our class.

Lewis  “at first I was not keen on reading but once we got started and I read my first book, I am more interested and I found I enjoyed reading my book”.

Kirstie ” We thought that if sorted the library , it would help us find books we liked”.

 

Literacy and English, Technologies

Functional Writing: Instructions 2

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This week we finished off our Functional Writing topic on Instructions. We have been learning to logically organise steps and information and to use a variety of connectives to join them together. Today we tied our learning in Writing to Technologies where we developed our understanding of food preparation by using different resources to make Ice Lollies from fruit juices. After that we wrote a set of instructions based on what we had learned to do.

 

 

“They were delicious!” – Paige

Health & Wellbeing, Sciences

Trip to Amazonia

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This week we went on our School Trip to Amazonia in Strathclyde Country Park. Building on our learning of how sound vibrations are carried we learned about different animals who live in the rainforest and how they communicate with each other. We even got to hold some of them!

 

 

“It was a really cool experience and we got to see animals we usually don’t get to see in this country.” – Lily

 

“I loved holding the animals.” – Gary

 

“I loved getting to see all the animals.” –  Aiden

 

Sciences

Electrical Circuits

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In Science we have been learning about electrical components and how they can be used to make a variety of electrial circuits. We started by looking at different symbols and what they represent. Then, after learning how energy travels around a circuit we used a range of electrical components to help make a variety of different circuits e.g. a torch, buzzer and an electric motor.

 

 

“I really enjoyed experimenting with the different components.” – Kenzie

 

“I had an amazing time doing this and it was so fun.” – Paige

Expressive Arts, Health & Wellbeing, Literacy and English, Numeracy & Mathematics, Religious & Moral Education, Technologies

RME Assembly

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Over the last few weeks we have been learning about celebrations in different religions. To do this we looked at weddings and the various aspects of these celebrations in Christianity, Islam and Judaism. We tied our learning in RME to other curricular areas e.g. Technologies where we designed and built window frames.

 

 

We also used Weddings as our topic for our work in Expressive Arts. As part of this, with Primary 2 we turned our frames into stained glass windows just like you might see in a cathedral.

 

 

We then learned the song ‘Love Story’ by Taylor Swift and prepared and performed a drama of a Christian Wedding at our learning and teaching assembly.

 

 

“It was really good fun and amazing!” – Emily

 

“I really enjoyed preparing and performing the drama of a Christian wedding.” – Lewis

Health & Wellbeing

Helping around the home

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This week we have taken time to develop different domestic skills in order to help around the home. This involved taking responsibility for washing, ironing, cooking and hoovering around the school. These are skills that will help us throughout our lives and support us to develop as Responsible Citizens.

 

“I now know how to use a hoover, which means that I can help around the house” – George

 

“Now that I know how to cook, I look forward to helping to cook dinner for my family” – Kirstie

Literacy and English

Functional Writing: Instructions

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This week we started looking at instructions as part of our writing. To do this we played board games in groups and wrote down a set of instructions explaining what resources we needed and how to play the game. Later we changed groups and used the instructions left for us to try and play the next game, then we left the group feedback on their instructions using our success criteria.

 

“I learned how to write instructions. It was really fun playing the games and writing instructions.” – Kenzie

Expressive Arts

Artist Study: Andy Warhol

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Emily and Paige
Emily and Paige

 

In Primary 5a we have been learning about Pop Art and Andy Warhol as part of our Art lessons. We started by finding out about his life and work, before looking at pieces of his artwork to identify his style e.g. repetition and his use of colour. Using what we learnt about his style we then started to create our own pieces of art.

 

“We got to make our artwork using things that we see every day or people that everyone knows. I liked it a lot” – Adrian