We have been learning how to create PowerPoints and have been finding information about the rainforest.
Category Archives: Literacy
Silly Billy
As I listen or watch, I can identify and discuss the purpose, key words and main ideas of the text, and use this information for a specific purpose. LIT 1-04a
To show my understanding across different areas of learning, I can identify and consider the purpose I am aware of and able to express my feelings and am developing the ability to talk about them. HWB 1-01a
I know that we all experience a variety of thoughts and emotions that affect how we feel and behave and I am learning ways of managing them. HWB 1-02a
I understand that there are people I can talk to and that there are a number of ways in which I can gain access to practical and emotional support to help me and others in a range of circumstances. HWB 1-03a
We read the book Silly Billy about a boy who worried about everything. His grandma told Billy about making a worry doll. He could then tell the worry doll all of his worries.
We explored some of the things we worry about and we all made worry dolls that we could tell our worries to. We also discussed who else we could tell our worries to and in class we made sure we all knew how to use our worry box. Let’s hope we don’t have any more worries.
Roald Dahl Day
We celebrated Roald Dahl’s birthday a few days early by watching an author’s event about him. Quentin Blake illustrated Dahl’s books and we got to draw one of his characters.
Flat Stanley Measuring
We have been learning to measure using metres and centimetres. We drew around each other with chalk to create our own flat person, then measured the height of our outline. Our flat people were very colourful.
I can estimate how long or heavy an object is, or what amount it holds, using everyday things as a guide, then measure or weigh it using appropriate instruments and units. MNU 1-11a
LI: To measure in metres and centimetres.
Height Comparison
We measured the height of everyone in the class then compared our heights with Flat Stanley. Most of us were taller than Flat Stanley. Flat Stanley is 122cm tall. We drew around Isla C as she is the same height as Flat Stanley. We turned Isla’s outline into Flat Stanley. We made a painting of Archie who is the same height as Flat Stanley, one of Aaron L, who is shorter than Flat Stanley and one of Carrie, who is taller than Flat Stanley.
WELCOME TO PRIMARY 3.2!!!!
We have now been in Primary 3 for 2 weeks and have all settled in nicely. We have started reading Flat Stanley, and so far we found out he got flattened by a bulletin board. He’s enjoying being flat because he can slide under doors and because he was flat he fitted through a grating to fetch his mother’s ring that had fallen down the drain. He was also able to visit relatives in California as he got posted there in an envelope.
We made outfits for our own Flat Stanley to wear to California.
In maths, we have been learning to measure in metres and we are going to be measuring in centimetres too. We all measured our height and compared ourselves to the height of Flat Stanley who is 122cm tall.
These are some of the things we have enjoyed so far –
Melody – Learning about Flat Stanley.
Hamish – Not having homework.
Callen – Learning about Flat Stanley and painting our rocks.
Megan – I enjoyed reading.
Remi – Reading Flat Stanley and doing Brain Buzz.
Space
Primary 2 have been learning all about Space. We learned some facts about each of the planets and tried to come up with different ways to remember the order of the planets. After that we learned that the Earth rotates and revolves around the Sun and this is why we have day and night. We took a visit to the Glasgow Science Centre and thoroughly enjoyed exploring the Planetarium. During ICT we have been creating our own space PowerPoints and lots of us have been sharing our learning at home! In Art we learned all about Peter Thorpe’s abstract space art and we decided to create some of our own. In Literacy we researched Neil Armstrong and wrote a newspaper article about the moon landing.
We were creating space pictures. We looked at pictures of Peter Thorpe’s artwork and then we used pastels to create our own. Ben
We were learning about abstract art. We used bold colours like black and red together. We thought about hot and cold colours. This helped us to add more detail.
We got a space book to look for planet words. We put the words on cards and used them to spell the planet words. Archie
The Earth rotates and revolves around the Sun. It takes 365 days for the Earth to revolve around the Sun. Megan
It takes 24 hours for the Earth to rotate. If we are facing the Sun then we get light and it is day. If we are facing away from the Sun then it is night. Melody
We went outside and we had to find a partner and one of us had to be the Earth and the other person was the Sun. We had to rotate and revolve around the Sun. If Miss Watson shouted daytime we had to face our partner (the Sun) and if she shouted nighttime then we had to face the other way. Callen
Reading for enjoyment in Primary 2
Primary 2 were very excited to have a visit from local author and illustrator Graeme Watson. We looked at two of his stories before having a go at drawing some of the characters. The wicked witch Fredina Freakly was quite tricky to draw but we had some fabulous results!
‘It was so funny listening to his stories.’ Megan
‘We read a book about a witch and a cat. The cat drank some of the potion and kept changing into different animals. We had a go at making our own funny animal.’ Melody
‘Every time the cat burped it turned into a different thing.’ Isla
‘We drew a witch and a cat. My witch had a very long lip.’ Indi
Fairy tales with a twist
In Literacy we had a go at writing our own fairy tales. Before we started, we read the story of the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf. We worked together to think of ways that we could rewrite the story of the three little pigs but with a twist. We thought that we might change the characters, the setting or even the weather in the story. After we had thought of some different ideas, we worked in pairs to plan our story and to think of some adjectives to describe the characters. Then we had a go at writing our new version. Afterwards, we worked in small groups to share our stories and to check that we had met our success criteria. We loved reading our stories aloud and getting feedback from our friends.
‘We walked around the room and when Miss Watson shouted stop we had to find a partner and share some of our ideas.’ Isla C
‘You want to write a fairy tale that you like and that other people like. You can do a mixed up story using ideas of what other people like.’ Leo
‘We thought about other stories people liked and then mixed it up a bit.’ Remi
‘We changed the characters like the three little pigs were bad. We changed the big bad wolf into a good wolf.’ Carrie
‘We used a word mat to help us think of ideas for our fairy tale and so that we could look at it and add any words when writing our fairy tales.’ Melody
‘We made sure that we had finger spaces, full stops and capital letters.’ Megan
‘We use punctuation in our fairy tale.’ Bella
Halloween
Primary 2.2 celebrated Halloween by making some creepy bats and monsters! We also wrote our own scary stories using some fabulous spooky wow words. We also had a super time dancing the night away at our Halloween disco.
“I coloured in the paper plate all in black then I cut out eyes and I cut out legs and folded them up then I stuck them on.” Bradley
“I brought my bat mask home to use it as a Halloween decoration. I liked the eyes because they were kind of big so they were staring.” Hamish
“I used some spooky words in my story then I added pictures of a witch, a bat and some pumpkins.” Isla
“I loved the spooky signs and decorations at the Halloween disco. Some of the costumes were really scary. We done some fun dancing and got some juice and crisps and it was so fun!” Zoe
