We have been learning about questioning strategies during our comprehension time in class. Primary four are questioning experts and they understand that literal questions are questions that are in the text, on the lines! Some examples of literal questions that primary four know are “can you explain what happened in chapter one?” and “who is the main character?” Primary four have worked hard to make board games that we can use
We got an extra treat in p7b this Friday when Mrs Harris came to work with us on our recount writing skills. We focused on strategies to use BEFORE we start a piece of writing. Here we are looking for good examples of features in a recount: We’re looking forward to next week when we use what we’ve learned in the planning stage to make better recounts. We’re getting smarter
Primary 1a have been very busy practising their ‘Have a Go’ writing. On Monday, we wrote a sentence about our Halloween party. The sentence said ‘I am at the party’. We then illustrated our sentences. After that, we assessed our writing by giving ourselves a traffic light – green, orange or red! “I liked drawing the picture to match my sentence!” said Pheobe. “I liked writing my sentence!” said Alicia.
Starting this week primary 4 and primary 4/3 will be coming together to help each other read every week! We are all very excited about helping each other to become super duper confident readers! “Primary four had a fun time reading with Primary 4/3.” Jamie “We helped each other with some difficult words.” Adam “Everyone was good at reading the books.” Leo It’s good to partner up and read with
This week we have had a very busy first week back after enjoying our October week. We started Coraline which is our new class novel, and wrote a book review on Kensuke’s Kingdom, as well as some new recount writing. ” I think Coraline is going to be a good book, and be quite scary!” – Calum During one of our maths lessons we used different resources to practise multiplication and
Primary 3 have been taking part in lots of activities to help them with their spelling! Some of their favourite games are: Silent Spelling Clap Spelling Frog Spelling Spelling Tic Tac Toe. We’ve also been using our elkonin boards to help us split words up and we’ve been making silly poems to help us remember how to spell too!
As part of their weekly homework, Primary 1a were given the creative task of using lots of different resources and materials to spell some of their common words or words containing their phonemes. Look at the amazing results… Well done everyone!
Primary 1a have been very busy this week undertaking lots of reading, writing and spelling activities. Here are some of the learning activities from our busy week…. Using our phonemes to make, blend, read and write lots of different words Reading in groups Reading on our own Reading to a partner Whiteboard spelling for our common words “My favourite activity was spelling the words on the whiteboards!” said Isla. “I liked
We had a visit from high school teacher Mrs James who showed us how secondary school uses metalinguistics. We made some spelling focussed artwork to help us with the meaning of our tricky words as well as the spelling… Leona even created a whole new brand of cream for sore joints! Her word was ACHE. Zak got us all a present, which we are happy to RECEIVE. Then on Thursday we
What a week for P1b. Refreshed after our long weekend, we worked hard on our number and phonics work. We matched the sounds using our ‘Sound Garden’. We used paint to make the phonics we learned. We played our animal game. We practiced writing our common words. Excellent work, Kayla! And we relaxed our bodies and minds with yoga. Namaste! Looking forward to next week already!!
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