We have been busy completing a variety of space themed tasks as part of our homework this term. As you will see from the photos, some of us made space themed trumps cards, planet posters, acrostic planet poems and alien masks. Mrs Beaton was particularly impressed with the space cookies some of the class made…yum!
Today primary 1a and 1b were learning to move an object to a target. We were working very hard on our focus and concentration skills!
Primary 5 have started taking ownership over their own class blog posts this week. They have been learning about what a blog is and what information to include in a blog post. We also discussed the different topics we could blog about and looked at including our own opinions. We have set up a Glenmanor Blog display in the class where we write our own blog posts and share our learning. We have been encouraging eachother by commenting on the blog posts on our display.
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.
Well done to this star pupil in P5 who created a powerpoint presentation for her topic homework task. The presentation was about our new topic, volcanoes, and it shared lots of interesting facts. P5 loved listening and learning new information. They were even given a quiz at the end of the presentation to test their listening skills!
P4/5 created beautiful polar landscapes using chalk. We researched different landscapes from Antarctica and created our own ‘Antarctica moonrise’. We thought about the cold colours we would need to use and had a go at blending colours together to create some wonderful effects.
P2 won class of the week this week! This week the focus was good manners. Our class managed to walk respectfully in the corridors, hold the doors for other people, say please and thank you, listen well to the teacher and say good morning and good afternoon. The class received 28 Respect and Collect tokens.
We played lots of games in our class during our extra playtime and we had lots of fun! We hope we win next week too!
We have enjoyed looking back at our proudest moments of 2015. Then we discussed our targets for 2016 and came up with a few New Year Resolutions linked to school life, such as learning our times tables, working harder on the presentation of our written work in our jotters and listening more carefully to Mrs McDaid’s instructions.
Primary 3 have been learning about multiplication. We used cubes to help us sort the numbers into groups. We worked well and learned a lot.
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.
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