Earlier this term we completed bikeability 1 and 2. Today we received our certificates and badges. We all feel really proud.

Remembrance

Remembrance
Learners immersed themselves in remembrance this week and had great maturity towards it.

We explored poppies, made poppy fields and made a split pin poppy.
We explored medals in the military and designed our own.

Book week

We have been having great fun this week exploring book week.

We  brought in our favourite books to share from home. Can you guess the readers display on our classroom window has created lots of discussion.

Learners redesigned the front cover for their book and created a character description. It was lovely reading a bit of our favourite books to Mrs Smith.

Have fun exploring your book bug bags and reading your favourite tales.

Literacy

In literacy we have explored character descriptions and increased fluency in our reading.  Our phonic this week was oo and we were very creative in our search for words with oo.

Our recount writing this week was on the book Dad and I went shopping.  We are learning how to structure a recount text.

We further explored verbs this week acting them out and changing tenses.

Numeracy

We have explored 100 squares. Talking about numbers, before, after and in between. We played games and built 100 square jigsaws. We continued 2x table playing bingo, creating groups and singing songs.

Maths

We used problem solving skills with volume.

After COP26 the class developed a great interest in reducing our carbon footprint and looking after our world.  We chose 3 class goals to reduce our carbon footprint, and we created poster to share with others.

Topic

This week we explored the sun and influence of shadows on day and night. We explored through light, and drawing shadows.

Our Highlights of the Week – P7B

We have had a brilliant week in P7b. We were so impressed with the P7A blog post from last week, we decided to copy their idea! The children had a think about what learning they have enjoyed and created an image on SketchesSchool. Have a look below at our work:

I have also added some additional multiplication and division worksheets to our P7B Teams page under the he files section should anyone want to have a go at home. If you e-mail your work, I am always happy to have a look at it and provide feedback 😀

Book week

We are learning about keeping connected as a Building Resilience strategy. We found out more about each other when we played a game called Find someone who…

 

For book week we read the special book The Last Wolf, shared by the whole school. It explores the sad theme of deforestation and extinction, but ends with hope. As we read it we charted our changing emotions by holding up our emotion face pictures. After we had talked about it we drew what we think would happen next, or far into the future.



Our writing is a recount and we planned and wrote about our first day at school. We remembered what we learned and drew, and about having lunch with p7s.

In maths we are learning times tables and why they are useful. We also continued symmetry and plotting shapes on grids.

Here are our poppy pictures from last weeks’ Remembrance Day.

Our spelling was long i, made in various ways.

 

We are learning about the planets and used our notebook to take short notes while watching a clip. This is a useful skill to help us remember what we’ve heard.

We used our iPads to sketch hedgehogs after working on the school book about Harry the Hedgehog.

And finally, the pheasant! It perched outside our window today, as it pecked around the playground looking for food.

P7A Review of the Week 19.11.21

P7A have had quite a creative week this week.  We collaborated on an image for the Whole School story about Harry the Hedgehog and are really pleased with how it turned out.  Each individual part of this image was created on our own iPads using Sketches School and then we used Instant Alpha in keynote to remove the background so the images could be layered on top of each other to create one big picture.

We also made some fabulous mixed media artwork of rainforest macaws.  We used glue spreaders instead of brushes to add texture to the feathers and then added detail with coloured pencils, oil pastels or felt pens.















1) Name one thing you have found challenging this week.  What did you do or what do you still need to help you tackle it?

2) Name one thing you have worked hard on this week.  Why are you proud of it?

 

Weekly Review – W/B 15th November

Another busy week in P6….

-We have been learning about the animals that live in the understorey and canopy layers of the jungle. We carried out more research and wrote and information report using our notes.

-We researched snakes and choose one species to recreate using paper plates. They look amazing hanging in our class.

-We have been learning about factors and multiples in maths. We also explored prime numbers and what makes them special.

-For book week we read a story called “The Last Wolf” and then predicted where the main character would be in 50 years time. It made us think about the important issue of sustainability again.

What was your favourite part of the week and why?

 

Dive into a book

Book Week

We have had some fun exploring books for Book Week. Our focus has had strong links to Literacy.

We explored the book,” The last wolf” by Mini Grey . This was a book that was in the P3 Read, Write, Count goody bag that we took home on Monday.

The Primary 2 goody bag was amazing too. We loved the note book, card game and measuring tape too.

We tried to act out parts of the story and we felt that we were actually in the book when we did that. There was lots of fun and laughter at the end when the story had a happy ending.

The book made us think very carefully about environmental issues and how we need to take care to look after wildlife. When hedges and trees are cut down the animals lose their homes and food. So we could be more mindful of this when we make choices.

We are looking forward to sharing books we bring in from home tomorrow.

Click on the link below to hear one of the stories we shared this week

https://glowscotland-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/r/personal/gw09finlaysonhazel_glow_sch_uk/Documents/Bea%20and%20Brodie%201.MOV?csf=1&web=1&e=WT1Jys

Here is a non-fiction story we read this week.

https://glowscotland-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/r/personal/gw09finlaysonhazel_glow_sch_uk/Documents/Jake%20kicks%20a%20goal%20.mov?csf=1&web=1&e=cOVgSV

 

Numeracy

We are now looking at exploring numbers to 100 and we enjoyed using the big 100 square and working out the correct sequence of numbers. We enjoyed being active with our learning.

We are really looking forward to using the big 100 square when we are choosing in our free time too.

Well done for wanting to transfer your learning into your play, P2 !

Sustainable Squad meeting 1.

We had an early morning meeting and felt very grown up when the tables were rearranged to make our meeting more formal.

We took the meeting very seriously and our responses were very mature.

Here are some of the things we discussed.

P7 will be planting legacy trees in the school grounds in December and January. This will provide shelter and shading and be good for our wildlife. We can also think about the P7’s who planted them.

We are looking forward to finding out more about the polytunnel that we are going to have in Spring.

Surprise!

Mr Swinney surprised us by dropping off some of the jigsaws and games our teacher had ordered. Mrs Ward gave each class money to spend and we are really excited about exploring our new games.

Thank you to Mrs Ward as these games will make our learning and play even more exciting.

long e spelling

lazy lazed lazing lazier laziest lazybones
scary scared scaring scarier scariest scarecrow
key keys keyring donkey monkey keyhole
field fields fielder fielding fielders fielding
delete deletes deleted deleting undeletable deletion
severe severest severely severity persevere perseverance
interfere interferes interfered interfering interference interferences
receive receives received receiving unreceived receivable