Primary 5 have been working hard this week to finish reading their novels. In pairs, the children were asked to summarise their novel thinking about what happened in the beginning, the middle and at the end. They then chose a character from the novel to draw on a big poster. Children then wrote their summaries on the back of their super drawings and they are now hanging from our ceiling for everyone to read. Well done for working so hard as a team!
Numeracy
P5 have been learning about 3D shapes. We have found some unusual shapes. We made 3D shapes from nets which is how they look when they are folded out.
Literacy
In literacy we made up some questions about our novels for a partner. We swapped with our partner to answer their questions and then we had to mark their answers against our success criteria. Our success criteria was: to write our answers in full sentences, to use information from our book to answer the questions and to write the page number of where we found the information.
Written by Callum, Kayley and Erin M
We have been practising hard on our Scottish poem, Fireworks aff the Castle, by Matthew Fitt. Some of the children recited their poem to the rest of the class. Some of the words were really tricky to pronounce but they all did a fantastic job. Well done to the performers and a big well done to the audience for demonstrating excellent listening skills.
Today P1a were reading for information. They did well to read some facts about queen bees and use the information to complete a chart. Next the children will learn all about worker bees.
P1a have been working hard learning their common words with our student teacher Miss Riach.
The Authors reading group have recently finished their group novel, The Best Dog in the World by Sylvia Green. The children had to present a talk to the rest of the class about their special dog. Each pupil or pair had to make sure that they included a detailed description of what their dog looked like, the breed or type of dog it was, how their dog behaved and why it was so special to them. When presenting their information, the children had to make sure that they made good eye contact with their audience, their voice was loud and clear enough for their audience to hear and the content o.f their talk was both interesting and informative. The audience also had an important job to do as they were assessing the presentations by recording what was interesting, how the readers caught their attention and advice about how to make any improvements. Well done Primary 4.
Each class have been given a Scots poem to learn at home as part of our annual Burns celebrations at Glenmanor Primary.
All children will have the opportunity to recite their poem from memory within their own class and some children will be selected as finalists to perform at a whole-school Burns assembly at the end of the month. There will be a 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize for each class and these children will be awarded with official Robert Burns Federation certificates.
Children should learn their poem off by heart and add suitable expression and actions. Some of the poems are performed by people online on sites such as YouTube and this may assist your child in learning their poem.
The poems are as follows:
P1a/P1b – My Wee Rid Motor, P2/P2/3 – Nessie, P3 – The Sair Finger, P4 – Fireworks aff the Castle, P4/5/P5 – A Chuckie in yer Shoe, P6/P6/7 – Farewell to aw our Scottish Fame, P7 – Lament to the Toothache.
Today p1a were listening for information to find out about what a honey bee looks like. They found out that their bodies are divided into 3 parts, they have 4 wings, 5 eyes and 6 legs. The children then used their knowledge to draw some accurate looking bee pictures.
Below is a copy of the Primary 2 Homework for Term 3. Please begin at week 18 and consolidate spelling from weeks 16 and 17.
If your child requires a paper copy of the sheets, please feel free to request one.
Spelling and phonics stage 2 homework sheet
P6/7 were excited to watch live coverage of the first British astronaut, Tim Peake’s blast off to the International Space Station this week. Tim and his team will be spending six months in space conducting scientific experiments and educational projects. We used the launch as inspiration for our story writing, creating planet settings and alien characters.
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