Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

In Room 20, we’ve been thinking of and making our own Maths hopscotch games.  We planned them out on our whiteboards, it was up to us to choose what kind of maths we wanted to include in it.  We played them altogether as a class and tried out what other people made.  Today we are going to try our games outside for real.

We have also also been learning about Place Value with numbers up to millions.  We’ve used magic number sticks and place value boards to count up and down in large amounts e.g. millions, hundred thousands.

To link in with our reading of ‘The Nowhere Emporium’, we made art work using collage to create fancy doors similar to the doors in the emporium.  We used different colours of paper, cut out different shapes and put these together to make detailed doors.

We started our block of narrative writing, with a focus on describing the setting and having an exciting start.  We concentrated on a mysterious building, inspired by the shop from the Nowhere Emporium.  It was really fun and Mr. JC was impressed with the range of exciting starting sentences and the detailed descriptions.

We also finished our Class Charter display, which was themed from Spongebob.  Mr. JC put up our display and its amazing because it includes the characters but also includes us.  This is important, because the charter belongs to us.

We also started our spelling programme this week.  We were learning about affixes.  We learned about prefixes, which are a group of letters that go at the front of a word to make a new word.  We also learned about suffixes, which is a when you add on the group of letters at the end to make a new word.  The suffix we learned was ‘able/ible’ which means to be capable of.  The prefix we learned was a- which means on or in.  We did dictation of these words today for the first time.  Our spelling homework starts in a couple of weeks.

It’s been a good second week and we are sure we will have the same fun every week!

Please leave us a comment to let us know what you thought of our week. 😁

It has been a very busy week in Room 27.

We started our first class novel of Primary 5, ‘The Wild Robot’, and are all really enjoying the story. We made predictions about the text and also used our skills of characterisation to create profiles and pictures of Roz, the main character.

We wrote very special letters to our future selves about our hopes and wishes for P5. These will be stored safely in our class time capsule until the end of the year when we will have the joy of opening and reading them. We are very much looking forward to finding out if anything has changed in this time!

In Maths, we have been looking at strategies to complete addition and subtraction calculations. We have also been practising our written methods for these.

We began to learn about compass points, coordinates and direction and created our own maps of the island in The Wild Robot.

In PE, we have been developing our teamwork and co-operation skills by playing lots of different team games. We have been learning about the importance of warming up and cooling down too.

AR: “I have really enjoyed our first full week together as Room 27.”

AM: “I really enjoyed the cone game in PE because we were quite competitive!”

OB: “PE has been tiring but useful to our muscles and strength'”

KH: “I have had a really good week and am excited to see what comes next.”

KW: “I really enjoyed Art and drawing our self portraits.”

SM: “I feel like I’ve got to know everyone better this week.”

Thank you for reading our blog post, have a lovely weekend,

Room 27, Miss Higgins and Miss Macfarlane

Maths & Numeracy – To start us off, we’ve been learning about positive mathematical mindsets. We answered questions about how we feel about maths, what we do when things get tricky and what strategies we can use help us. We’ve also been learning how to play lots of different math & numeracy games such as Countdown, NIM, Guess the Number and Closest to 100/1000. (ZK-B & MM)

Literacy – We’ve already started our class reading novel called High Rise Mystery by Sharna Jackson. It’s a murder mystery book and it’s been really interesting so far. We’ve been learning how to work together in reciprocal reading groups. It was quite strange at first because its so different but with more practise we’ll be great at it! There are different reading jobs for the group members and this week we had readers, clarifiers, inferrers and questioners. (PM, JC & CM)

Art – We created portraits of ourselves but with a twist. We used carbon paper to trace over photographs of ourselves, outlined them and then used watercolours for the background. We’ve put these up outside our classroom, take a look if you’re walking by! (EM & CP)

Class Charter – Miss Napier gave us a ‘Do you know your rights?’ quiz and then we used our knowledge to create our Class Rights Charter. We’ve chosen a different way to sign our charter this year by creating a collage of all our interests in the shape of our first initial. We’re in the process of finishing these and will add them to our display next week.

Buddying – As P7s, we’ve all been given new P1 Buddies to support during their first year at primary school. It’s been fun getting to know them and playing with them during some break and lunch times. (MS, RS & JC)