Another fantastic morning in the sun P7! Some literacy outdoor activities this week.
Have a fantastic October week. You have all well and truly earned it 😎
Category: Literacy and English
P7a and P7d enjoy the sunny outdoors!
P7a & d had a fantastic afternoon enhancing their numeracy and literacy skills using the outdoor environment.
Well done everyone! What a fantastic afternoon 🙂
Miss Gavin & Mr McKay
Achievement
Over the summer, Mia completed the Space Chase Reading Challenge at the library. Well done Mia, we are so proud of you!
Poetree
Primary 5A enjoyed using their Technology and Literacy skills to create poems about trees. We looked for inspiration using all of our senses and worked as a group to record them with chalk, mud ink or by spontaneous performance!
P4’s Local Area Topic
Primary 4c have been conducting lots of online research about our Local Areas. As a class, we decided to create informative books which tell others a little bit about the areas they come from. We split into groups, and each group was in charge of a different area!
We are creating books about:
- Thornliebank
- Clarkston
- Giffnock
- Williamwood
- Netherlee
First we have researched all of the information. Then we are laying it out clearly and creatively on all of the different pages of our books. We’ve had to practise our drawing skills, and sometimes double check the facts using a few different websites and sources. It’s definitely a challenge, but we’re learning a lot!
Stay tuned to see the finished results!
A Busy Time in P4b!
It has been a busy time in Primary 4b!
Primary 7 came and read some of Jesus’ miracles to us during Catholic Education Week.
Mr Harris came from St Ninian’s to teach us Scratch Coding. We have enjoyed programming our Cat and Pokemon and we are even creating our own games!
Mrs Neil came and introduced us to the Hour of Code website where we created a Dance Music Video! It was great fun and we are looking forward to using it again during Hour of Code Week.
We have been working with our writing partners to write disaster stories called The Nightmare Just Before Christmas, they’re coming along nicely!
When we were asked to create poems about Autumn but winter had almost arrived, we used the VR Headsets to go on an Autumn Walk and use our sense of sight. We then went outside to find inspiration for our other senses!
A busy week in P4a!
Primary 4a are enjoying taking part in the First Minister’s Reading Challenge and have created a bar chart to keep a record of how many books they have read. They participated in Drop It and Read last week for Book Week. When they heard the whistle go off in class they stopped what they were doing and read their private reading books.
We are taking part in The Hour of Code and to launch this Mrs Neil introduced us to some very exciting coding websites. Primary 4a are extremely talented and writing their own games and activities using different coding software. Use the links on Glow to show off your coding skills at home too!
Chloe brought in her world record attempt for tap to show the class. A very well deserved certificate!
Questioning
Primary 4 are developing their questioning skills this year. They worked in small groups to ask each other challenging questions. Each group read a story from First News and then asked their peers questions about the story using questioning fans.
P4c’s Autumn Walk
We had a lovely time on our Autumn Walk today! We were all outside, listening to the sounds of Autumn. It was a beautiful day and we recorded lots of adjectives and descriptions in our notes.
Next week we will be writing Autumn Poems based on our experiences… we are going to make them as descriptive as possible!
Then finished off our walk with a quick game of tig, led by Ethan – our Work Experience student from St Ninians. It’s been great having him along to work with us today!
Autumn
Primary 4a have been exploring the season of autumn this week and developing skills across the curriculum. Have a look at some of the work we have been doing.
We explored some autumn pictures using the VR headsets. We discussed what we could see with our peers and used the scenes as a stimulus for creating our own autumn pictures using different textures.
Lastly, we applied all our ideas to writing and wrote our own acrostic poems!
