Author: Mrs McPherson

Monday

Today we learned about time we did a worksheet that showed us the analogue clock and we had to work out the time in digital.

We worked on a keynote presentation for our new topic The Commonwealth Games. We worked in our cooperative learning groups.

After that we went to the stage to get in our positions for the Royal Rock stars concert on Wednesday, it is going to be great!

Tuesday

Today we did surveys in all of the classes about what was their favourite sport in the Commonwealth Games.

Today we also had stage assembly and we made a-z poems about a day out somewhere like the seaside or school. We done this in pairs or our whole group and we were lucky enough to get to pick our pairs.

After break we had literacy and we were learning more about non-fiction and we got out the laptops to make fact sheets on Microsoft Word about what non-fiction is. We included information about subtitles, glossaries, contents, fact boxes and an index. We looked at a book about the differences from non-fiction and fiction and we found out that non-fiction is factual and fiction is imaginary and non-fiction has a glossary, index and contents page. In maths we were learning about time.

Wednesday

In the morning we did our keynote presentation on the I pads it was about the Commonwealth games transport. After break we had taught writing. The class wrote about why they should be star pupil to persuade Miss McGregor to choose them.

After lunch we had some practice with clocks on telling the time, Miss McGregor gave us time sand we had to draw the hands on the clocks to show them.

Then it was our first Rockstar performance, it was fantastic.

Thursday

In the morning we were just about to plunge into another lesson on non-fiction when the p4s offered us the I-pads so we did some more of out keynote presentations. In maths we were working on time, some of the class can write the 24 hour time.

In PE we had circuits using all the different ball skills we have been learning. We are all really good at ball control and have great coordination in PE.

Friday

It was eco day!!!!

On Friday we hade Eco day. we had lots of fun doing orienteering outside. We had to find all the clues to make a word the word was RECYCLE!

After that we made our own keynote presentation on litter, outside learning and waste. They were all fabulous. After break we went in to the hall and planted some plants and played games on the computer and in the afternoon we shared our learning with the whole school. It was really interesting to see what all the other classes have been doing.

Monday

At the start of the day Miss McGregor told us that our class will be having the I-pads for 3 weeks. On the I-pads we played spelling city for literacy. We looked at Non-fiction and Fiction books. We looked at the differences between both types of books. In maths we looked at the weights of different objects such as polo mints and hand cream, we had to estimate the weights and then weigh each item using scales. We got to feel the weight of a kilogram, which is a bag of sugar.

Tuesday

At the start of the day we went to stage assembly and told Mrs Woodward our opinion of our school. For Literacy we looked ay Non-fiction books again. We looked at the definition of a dictionary, thesaurus, index page, glossary and a contents page. In the afternoon we had Royal Rockstars and they taught us 2 songs one called ‘Don’t give up’ and one called ‘Glad to be me’. Andy taught us the actions to the songs.

Wednesday

In the morning we had Taught writing whilst 10 people were away to cross-country. Well done to them! In Taught writing we were writing about a day out with someone, we had to focus on using our core targets correctly.

After break the cross-country runners came back they were SOAKED then we had some maths we were looking at measure we also finished of our posters on what we know about measure.

Thursday

We worked on our keynote presentations today as we had the I pads. We added the history of the Commonwealth Games, we found out that it was founded in 1930.

For maths we finished weight and we looked at or new topic time.

In the afternoon we had our last practice of Royal Rockstars before we make our CD tomorrow. It is going to sound great.

Friday

On Friday morning we were looking at punctuation with Mrs McIntyre, we identified different parts of punctuation from a text.

Primary 3 performed their assembly for the whole school, it was on their Scottish topic and it was really interesting.

We also were working on speech marks and we learned that you take a new line when a new speaker comes.

In Kodally we played a game called cut the cake where we were in teams and we had to collect as many beanbags and balls as we could.

After lunch we had Royal Rockstars and we recorded our CD. The Royal Rockstars said we were great and very clear and we finished the CD very quickly.

On Friday we learned the S.A.S of quadrilaterals like a rhombus, parallelogram and a kite. After break we made comic strips!!!. Our book is called Granny Nothing. It is about Stephanie and Ewan. They only have one Granny at the start of the story but they find out they have another granny on their dad’s side of the family. We had R.M.E  after beak and we learned about Joseph. After lunch we got the laptops out to work on our e-portfolios.

Monday

On Monday we were learning how to write main points of a chapter rom our class book. This is where you write all the important things that has happened in the chapter.

We started looking at measure in maths and we looked at how to measure height, weight and area.

In the afternoon we researched our family tartan and drew it so that we can use it to make kilts next week.

Tuesday

In the morning we had stage assembly and we practiced our poems for Scottish month. We drew pictures of monster from our imagination.

We were working on metalinguistics for literacy where we had to find all the tricky words and work out what they actually meant.

In maths we continued to look at measure and we got to measure ourselves and see what height we all were, we used these measurements to estimate the height of other things in the classroom.

Wednesday

In taught writing we wrote reports in our town, Some people found it difficult at first to not write personal opinions but we got the hang of it in the end.

We had Chryston committees in the afternoon and we all got to meet with our committee and work on our individual tasks.

Thursday

As we missed Kodaly last week we had it this morning, it was great fun. We were playing an African game where we had to pass sticks around the circle.

In PE we were playing tea games using all our large ball skills that we have been learning over the last few weeks.

In the afternoon we worked on our e portfolios and added new posts. They are starting to look really good.

P4 and 5 Christmas party!!!!!!

On Friday the 15^th December we had our Christmas party!

We had lots of fun doing our Scottish dancing such as the Dashing White Sergeant, the Canadian Barn Dance and the Gay Gordons.

We also did modern dances like the Macarena and the Cha Cha Slide.

After the Macarena we had some games like pass the parcel, musical arms and the conga.

We were given some ice cream when we got put out of pass the parcel.

When we returned to the classroom we found a packet of crisps and some juice.  We went back to the hall and had a photo for the local newspaper.

Our party was very fun!

Monday

On Monday in maths we worked on fractions for the first time. Also in maths we learned what fractions are! We can do whole fractions, mixed fractions and fractions. Some of us thought it was easy and some of us thought it was hard. We were making a box fold card and they all look fantastic. In literacy we were learning how to use apostrophes.

Tuesday

On Tuesday in literacy we learned about using commas in a list. We know where to use them in a list to describe people, things or a list of actions. In technology we made mouth fold Christmas pop up cards.

Wednesday

On Wednesday we were doing a spelling test on our spelling work. We also did a science project on the water cycle, looking at evaporation. We finished our mouth fold Christmas cards.

For maths we had 4 stations for our work on fractions, we had the I pads, a game, some work with Miss McGregor and some jotter work with Mrs Wordy, we are learning lots about fractions.

Thursday

We made place mats for our Christmas party tomorrow and we got to complete our pop up cards. We also made Christmas cards with Mr Furlong in Gaelic so we have lots of cards to give to our families.

We have been working some more on fractions and it is getting easier, we like the way it links to our previous topic division.

6.12.13

With Mrs McIntyre we have been learning all about lots of different kinds of 2D shapes.

1. Parallelogram

2.  Rhombus

3.  Kite

4.  Square

5.  Rectangle

We learned that these shapes are all quadrilaterals.

We also used nail boards and elastic bands to create

quadrilaterals and geo strips to make shapes.

We know that there are two kinds of kites.

A quadrilateral is a 4-sided shape.

Week beginning Monday 2^nd December 2013

On Monday we did our new spelling words and we had to practice our words. We also went to our dance practice, we have already learned three dances; the dances are The Gay Gordon, Canadian Barn Dance and Dashing White Sergeant.

In maths the squares were looking at new vocabulary related to money and they looked at addition with money using decimal points. The circles had to work out if they could afford certain items.

In literacy the Burns did an individual read and visualisation of Sam. The Williams used inference and had an individual read.  Kindley were working with Miss McGregor to read the end of their book.

In the afternoon we completed a TASC wheel activity to create our own Christmas decorations and one group got to make a decoration for the top of the Christmas tree.

On Tuesday we had our stage assembly in the morning where we had to design a Christmas card and then they would shrink it down. We also practiced some Christmas songs. In literacy everybody finished their books and we all completed our tasks from yesterday. In numeracy we did gimme 5. We also looked at how to spend money in different ways. At the end of the day we made Christmas decorations for the class room there was different types of decorations to make.

On Wednesday we had our Scottish dancing, the girls choose the boys this time. We also had literacy where we made visualisers and listed the main points of our books. We have all finished our reading books this week. We have been doing some of our work on the I pads!

Christmas is coming up so we have a Christmas tree in our class and two advent calendars! We all got to put a decoration on the tree and hang our decorations that we made around the class.

We all have committees to work in on Wednesday afternoons; there is JRSO and global learning, media busters, healthy food group and Eco. After committees we made black and white symmetrical snowman pictures, they look great up on our class wall.

On Thursday we had Mrs Kyle in class. In the morning we had a dance practice and we got to look at some road safety equipment with Mrs Allan.  Today we also have Gaelic with Mr Furlong.  In literacy we made visualisers of our whole book.  In the afternoon we looked at what we have learned from our topic ‘The water cycle’, it was interesting to see what all the children in the class remembered about the water cycle.

On Monday we were learning our new money topic in maths. We have finished symmetry and we are now on to 2d objects.

We also had our assembly practice we are enjoying leaning about the human body and preparing for our assembly, it is going to be good.

On Tuesday we had stage assembly and a practice for our class assembly, it is looking really good. We were looking at money in maths and we got to bring in some foreign coins we had for the class to look at.

On Wednesday we had a visit from the author Stuart Reid he was telling us about horrible things in his books. He got 4 volunteers to throw chewy false teeth at him because in the book George opened the cupboard and loads of false teeth fell on him.

On Thursday we mad ediagrams of the wate cycle, we worked in apirs using a variety of materials. We also made mini water cycles to hang on our window, hopefully they will all show us the water cycle happening in our class! We had a dance practice for the Christmas party. We also had a dress rehearsal for our assembly tomorrow, it is looking great.