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 😎
Tag: Literacy
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!
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.
Imaginative Writing
Primary 4a have been learning to engage their readers in their writing this week. They have been exploring different settings and using lots of ambitious vocabulary to add excitement and suspense to their stories. They worked as a team to add as many adjectives as possible to the setting they were given before writing indepedently.
“We were learning how to work as a team to describe a setting.” (Hannah H)
“I liked working as a team because we all had a job to do.” (Matthew)
“I liked that my team worked together and didn’t argue.” (Lara)
“I enjoyed writing about a setting using interesting adjectives.” (Leilani)
P3b enjoy the sunny weather!
P3b have been very busy this week. We took full of advantage of the good weather today and got outside.
PE – Tennis
Today, we worked on controlling a tennis racket. We used backhand and forehand stroke movements. We used tennis rackets, bean bags, tennis balls and hula hoops to practise our control and hitting skills.
Outdoor Learning – Literacy
In the outdoor classroom, we used chalk to practise our spelling words. We challenged ourselves to put the words into a sentence. We then gave each word or sentence a value and calculated the total at the end.
HWB – Gardening
P3b have really enjoyed the opportunity to do some planting. They have planted onions and they are really looking forward to planting some more.
Well done P3b. Keep up all the hard work!
P3b – Lots of learning!
Science – Earth, Moon and Sun
Primary 3b have been learning about the Earth, the moon and the sun. They have been observing and recording the earth, the sun and the moon at various times. They have been exploring and describing their patterns of movement and changes over time. They have been relating these to the length of a day, a month and a year.
They can describe how the Earth spins around its axis in 24 hours resulting in day and night. They can explain why the moon appears to have different shapes and positions in the sky at different times in a lunar month.
“I like learning about the solar system because I love space. I find it very interesting that the moon changes shape every few nights in a lunar month.” (Gabriel E)
“I like the videos about the moon because they are really funny. I also like that I know a lot of facts about the earth, the sun and the moon.” (Jai)
PE – Gymnastics
This week, they have been working on controlling their bodies. They have been rolling, jumping, balancing and making shapes with their bodies.
Primary 3b have been really enjoying this aspect of PE.
“I like gymnastics because it’s fun. I like jumping on the springboard and making a body shape on the landing mat.” (Hamish)
“My favourite part of gymnastics is making shapes with my body. I like it because it is calm and quiet. I like having fun with all the mats on the ground.” (Laurina)
Literacy – Outdoor Learning
This week, they were using the outdoors as inspiration to solve some riddles. After that, they came up with their own riddles, using vocabulary from their outdoor environment. They really loved this activity and had a lot of fun, being creative, coming up with their own.
Well done P3b – Keep up all the hard work! 🙂
“I liked how we got to work as a team to make our own riddles. We used rhyming words from the outdoors to help us.” (Joe)
“All of the riddles were different and quite challenging. I liked the one that was about a tree. We loved making up our own because we could be as creative as we wanted.” (Elsa)
“I liked how we worked together to find the answers to the riddles. I liked that we all solved one riddle each. My favourite bit was making our own at the end.” (Niamh)
Keep up the hard work 3b! 🙂
