Ho Ho Ho to one and all! Welcome to our December news, jings what a busy month this has been!
On November 30th we all went to the Motherwell Civic Theatre to see Jack & The Beanstalk – what a hoot! Room 11 travelled with Room 3 on a huge coach!
ART ‘n’ DESIGN
Do you remember our Hallowe’en pumpkin?
Well, we painted it white and gave the vine part a coat of orange! Then we used white glitter and other collage materials to create a Frosty the Snowman Pumpkin !
When you are running a business you have to super organised and everything must be well prepared. We had to make sure the little gems for the tree decoration were sorted and cut up into tiny strips for us all to use easily. Our production line was efficient because of this planning!
Air Dry Salt Dough
TEALIGHT JARS
OUR STALL @ THE CHRISTMASSCHOOL FAIR … we won because we had the most profit! Woohoo !!
FAIRY HOUSES
Elf Surveillance! No Pressure!
ShimmerSnowflake& LouisSnowballareBACK!
We’re all on Santa’s Nice List!
HAPPY HANAKKAH!
The Jewish Festival of Light … THE STAR OF DAVID
We’ve learned about the Maccabees!
DREIDELS
A dreidel is a four-sided spinning top that is traditionally played during Hanukkah, which is a Jewish holiday that takes place over the course of December.
We have had a busy bee start to 2018 full of clever clogs learning in all our curricular areas.
RABBIE BURNS CELEBRATION
Literacy & English
ROBERT BURNS: REPORT WRITING
Y Dance and The Vikings
Jessica comes on a Thursday to teach us dance through our topic.
Social Studies Topic
We are learning about The Vikings this term and we know that their homelands were Norway, Sweden and Denmark. They invaded our country because we have better farming land.
Phoneme charts challenge our knowledge and understanding of the 4 different representations of phoneme ‘ie’ as in pie. We listen to our peer partner say the word then we write the word in the correct column – easy peasy (in a growth mindset way)!
Have you spotted our early bird Elf on the Shelf?
MATHS
Maths Wizard Bailley!
Active group activities like Loop Cards consolidate our understanding and help us with new learning.
HWB: RESPECT ME &
A good friend …
We learned that there are 5 steps to deal with bullying behaviour:
Ignore
Talk friendly
Walk away
Talk firmly
Report
Tiny Teacher Visits Mrs. Barrowman and baby Stefan popped in this month to see us! Best visitor ever! We know that babies have the best Growth Mindset!
Doctor Kayla Teaches us about Diabetes with the help of Rufus the bear.
Hello everyone, what a busy bee month it has been! We haveenjoyed so many activities since our last blog such as: Health Week, HarvestFestival, our October Week holiday, Parents Night(well done everyone!) and Halloween Parties.
HAPPY HALLOWEEEEEEN!
We all had the best time ever! Firstly we had fun games like spooky corners, then dancing to Halloween tunes, followed by a spooky DVD finally we had Halloween treats and juice!
Who is that Peek-a-booing?!
PUMPKIN INVESTIGATION
We can use measure to investigate our class pumpkin!
We used a kg weight to help us make an educated guess, we know that is called an estimate!
We used Problem Solving skills to figure out how to measure the width /circumference!
Our estimate = 62 cm
ACTUAL Width of circumference = 64cm
Our estimate = 3kg
ACTUAL WEIGHT of PUMPKIN = 2kg 400g
Art & Design
We’ve learned that we use the words hue, tint, tone and shade when talking about color in art, but did you know each of these words has a special meaning?
A hue is just a color. Basically any color on the color wheel like this …
Ourcolour explosions …
Tints, tones, and shades are differences of the hues found on the color wheel when white, black or both are mixed in.
Here a we are creating tones of blue and red, we did this by adding white gradually.
Then we used paper collage to create autumnal spooky pictures.
HAUNTED HOUSE MATHS
Spinning for spooky numbers!
Rounding to the nearest 10 & 100 …
HWB: HEALTHWEEK
Before the October Week holiday we had a lovely week of sporting activities during Health week.
Anyone For Tennis?!
Time for raquets!
Penalty speed test
FOOTBALL
Football & Athletics
See you all next month for November’s blog highlights!We’ll be challenging ourselves further in Maths with addition and subtraction. In Literacy & English we’ll use our growth mindset in learning our common tricky words, spelling rules and phonemes.We will show our developing mastery of these in our writing.Our new attacking and defending skills will be put to good use in our hockey mini games.
We are really settled in now to the new school year and in Primary 4/5 Room 11 we are off to a super start to our year with Miss Travers at Berryhill Primary. So far we have applied our Growth Mindset to lots of new learning!
Primary 4 and 5 have begun working on Phoneme Families where we use diacritical marking to show our understanding of phonemes (sounds) and the different representions we find in our vocabulary.
We can also use short and tall diagonal joins now to do fancy handwriting – we are on the right track with linking this into our phonemes, common tricky words and spelling rules.
We ‘chit chat’ about different strategies in adding and subtracting … here we are using partitioning to add big numbers.
Place Value Hoopla
Base 10 materials helps us to make big numbers.
Maths Open Afternoon
Number Talk
SMARTBOARD GAME
Sumdog on the ipad.
SCIENCE & HWB
Germs! Germs! Germs!
When we were reading our Horrid Henry novel we found a tricky word … contagious! We used metalinguistic strategies ‘read on’ and ‘read back’ to find the meaning of it. We learned it means catchable germs! Here we are in science learning about how germs (glitter) are spread through contact and how tricky they are to wash off!
HWB: PE
Hockey skills in PE
We warm up for three main reasons:
to get our muscles ready for physical activity
to prevent injuring or hurting ourselves
to increase our heart rate to supply oxygen to our muscles
Check us out!
We can hold the hockey stick correctly for pushing and stopping the ball. We can push the ball accurately. We can stop and control the ball.
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