Well done to everyone who entered our poster competition focused on raising awareness of plastic pollution. Mrs Noble had a very difficult job selecting the winner.
Well done to Aleena for being our winner 🙂 You will now see Aleena’s poster as you walk into the Avenue Shopping Centre.
Sometimes a change of scenery is just what is needed during all the end of term chaos. We enjoyed reading our assigned pages of our reading books in the Eco Garden before returning to class to complete our follow on activities.
During our writing lesson today, our target was to include descriptive words in our stories to make them more interesting for our readers. We reminded ourselves of the story ‘Tiddler’ which we had read last week. We used this book to spark our imaginations!
We started by selecting a sea creature(noun) from the book and built a sentence around it which included an adjective, verb and adverb. After this, while working in pairs we chose from a range of under the sea pictures and wrote lots of adjectives describing each.
Finally, our writing was to create another reason why Tiddler was late to school. We made a plan with our partner and then wrote some amazing stories in our writing jotters. Mrs Kennedy was very impressed with the work produced 🙂
Today we listened to the story ‘Tiddler’, a book by Julia Donaldson. As we listened, we had to write down all the sea creatures which appeared or were mentioned in the book. By the end, we had whiteboards filled with sea creatures!
We then got the Chromebooks and were tasked with researching three of our chosen sea creatures from our boards. We used trusted sites to find information and began working on our note taking skills.
We loved learning about the angler fish, although some of us found it a little scary!
We had a great visit to Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Tuesday. We had amazing seats and enjoyed singing/dancing along to the two Scottish bands performing.
Each of us were assigned a member of staff to write a letter to, wishing them a lovely Winter break. We loved going around the school to deliver these and the staff were very thankful.
As part of our letter writing focus, we have also now posted letters to new pen pals. These are the primary 3s at Netherlee Primary School and we are looking forward to receiving their responses.
We have been working on writing letters in class. A few weeks ago, we wrote a thank you letter. We learned how to set our letters out properly, including our school address.
Today, we have been writing letters to a new pen pal. We have made a connection with another school in East Renfrewshire and are writing to pupils in their primary 3 class. This was our first draft today and once we have received feedback from Mrs Stephenson we will re-draft and post our letters.
In Literacy, we are continuing to work on our reading fluency and build on our confidence when reading aloud. Today, some of us paired up with members of our class whilst others were paired with primary 5 helpers. During this time, we took turns reading aloud and discussed the book we have been assigned for homework.
