🧙♂️“…Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light” 🎓
P.6/5 pupils and teachers ended on a high today, what a way to end a term! Have a browse through our end of term treat photos below 😆 Well done everyone, enjoy your well earned rest! 🌟
EYC CC See Saw & Snack Letter 8.10.20
✨ October 2020- The Monster has been Defeated, once and for all! ⚔️
Across miles of misty moors, lay the wild town of Maybole. There, diligent P.6/5 warriors worked hard to master the skill of writing a ‘defeating the monster’ tale. They battled with kennings, metaphors, repetition and alliteration to ensure they won the prize of WORTHIEST WRITER!
This week our pupils produced their HOT PIECE and reflected on their own tales, self assessing. Pupils then shared their work with their peers.
Hear some of what they had to say below 🙌🏻😊
EYC SeeSaw and Snack Letter 7.10.20
Newletters Term 1 2020
Gardenrose Primary Newsletter Term 1
Welcome to P3 with Miss McNeillie
Hello and Welcome to P3 with Miss McNeillie!
We have had an extremely busy in term 1 and have been focusing on our Health and Wellbeing whilst settling back into school life. We enjoy outdoor learning, daily mile and guided meditation sessions. We participated in a health and wellbeing live lesson on the BBC website and managed to get our class mentioned live on screen! We are all extremely proud of this claim to fame.
bbc live
Literacy
We are working hard weekly with our phonics sounds, spelling and reading. Our talk for writing genre is journey tales and we are learning the model text The Papaya that Spoke. We can re-tell the story using pictures, actions and drama. We are now innovating the story to create our own version.
Numeracy and Mathematics
We enjoy number talks and daily 6 to improve our mental math skills. We have explored place value, number processes, data handling and measurement in math lessons. We also participated in Maths Week Scotland by completing a range of activities outside and in. We particularly enjoyed drawing symmetrical designs in the playground and finding symmetrical things in the environment on a symmetry hunt. We found a butterfly to examine and can successfully explain what symmetry is.
IDL
Fantastic Mr Fox was our first novel and IDL topic. We loved the story! We drew our own foxes using basic line shapes and colour, explored food chains in science lessons and researched how animals use their senses. We had great discussions about the main characters Mr Fox and the three farmers Boggis, Bean and Bunce and were able to create wonderful character descriptions to show our understanding.
We loved using our senses to explain our surroundings. We went on a hunt in the playground to see what we could see, hear, touch, smell and taste.
Our next topic is the human body, which we choose in a class vote. We are all very excited to learn about what’s inside our bodies and how it works!
Expressive Arts
We have been making the most of the lovely weather to spend time outside. We painted self-portraits in the garden and then completed free choice painting in the fresh air. We are developing our acting skills by acting out scenes for Talk for Writing – some award winning performances.
Primary 4
Welcome to Primary 4 with Miss Pollock. Thank you for stopping by to look at our class page!
Talk for Writing – Elf Road
In Term 1 pupils have been focussing on the model text ‘Elf Road’. We have been learning the story with actions and rewriting it using pictures and symbols to help us retell it from memory.
R.M.E
Primary 4 pupils have been enjoying learning about Diwali in R.M.E this term. We made our very own Diwali lamps. It was super messy and lots of fun!
Expressive Arts
We have really been enjoying a variety of art activities this term. We created our own self-portraits. We would love to see if you can guess who each one is (photos to follow). As part of our IDL topic we have been learning about weather, climate and the Polar Regions. We did some chalk drawings of the Northern Lights.
Maths
In maths, we have been focussing on number work and learning how to round numbers to the nearest 10 and nearest 100. Our Number Talks sessions have been very interesting as we have been learning a variety of strategies to help us with adding 2 and 3 digit numbers.
Photos to follow!
