It was lovely to see so many parents and family members in class this week for our Shared Learning Event which, this time round, had a focus on Reading.
Activities to try included…
* creating our own first lines after reading the blurb on the back of books. This will be used next week as a follow up activity.
* sorting jumbled sentences to sequence a short story.
* deciphering a set of instructions taken from our class novel.
*a variety of reading and phonics games.
*cosy cushions to look at our ERIC books.
Thank you for coming and showing your support! Please let us know which activities you tried and enjoyed by leaving us a comment.
The end of Term 1 is almost upon us! Three of our pupils shared some exciting news with us this week, so we simply had to get a photo to celebrate their achievements.
We are lucky to have such an inviting and comfortable library in our school. What a lovely time we had on Tuesday, relaxing with our books. We hope that P4/5/6 continue to read over the holidays too!
Many of us enjoy being able to choose what we write about in class. It was lovely to see everyone working so hard to achieve their writing targets this week. We sat together on Wednesday afternoon and enjoyed sharing what we had written with everyone. It was fantastic to see how many children were excited to share their writing and give positive feedback to others.
Maths time on Wednesday morning was good fun, playing number games with our friends. We had to remember to take turns and listen carefully to each other.
In the afternoon we spent time building jigsaws in small groups. Some jigsaws were tricky and will need more time to complete, but I know that we have some determined pupils in P4/5/6 who will keep going , even when the task seems impossible!
Relaxing with a good book!
Our new library is a cosy space to enjoy our own choice of books.
What a busy writing lesson we had this week.
Well done to these 3 pupils who all won medals at a recent swimming competition!
A fun Maths game where we had a guess the chosen number. It was important to ask the right questions and listen carefully to the answer!
Did they guess the right number?
I wonder if they managed to guess the number in under 10 questions…?
This group were keen to keep the jigsaw as a floor mat!
Looking carefully for details helped to make this tricky jigsaw a little easier.
It was good to try our a range of different jigsaws – even 3D ones!
Today we celebrated World Book Day in a number of ways. Last week, we talked about the importance of listening to books, especially from a young age. We talked about books that would appeal to younger children and how the reader has an important part to play in the enjoyment of a story. With this in mind, each child chose a book that they would like read to a pupil in the ELC department or P1/2. They rehearsed reading it and thought about stopping to ask questions or point out details in the illustrations.
Our class really enjoyed it and were super role models! When the books were done, it was great to see the younger pupils rushing to get their books to read back! We even had a little time to watch them paint.
Back in our class we played a World Book Day game where they were shown a cover, title and blurb. Each team then had to create a believable opening sentence, thinking about recent class work done on different openers. When all were written, we read them all out, including the real sentence. Each group got 2 points if they correctly guessed the right sentence and a bonus 5 points if their sentence was chosen instead of the actual one!
Here are the made up sentences for the book ‘Jelly’ by Jo Cotterill. Can you tell which is the right one?
Angelica, nicknamed Jelly, was the comedy queen of the classroom!
“Do it now, Jelly! Please!
Angelica, also known as Jelly, was the class clown.
”Angelica, stop that noise,” said Mrs Brown.
Angelica was shocked that her Mum had a new boyfriend and was going on a date!
At the end of the day, we shared some of our favourite books.
I really like the Wimpy Kid series. I like all the characters. Each story is new but the books link up a bit.I really like The Call of the Wild and I have watched the movie. The book has lots of twists and turns in it!This book is split into stories about each pet. So far, my favourite is Picasso the Horse because Molly gets rich when she finds out the horse can paint!I like this book about animals. My Mum reads it to me. I like learning about animals like the poisonous dart frog.We had some dressing up characters today too! We had a ballerina and Baby Yoda. I like the Rainbow Grey series. They are good to read.I like horses and ponies so this is the book for me!I like this really funny book! It has good descriptions. Tom Gates writes little stories and puts them in the book.This is about a cat that can turn spells on dogs. The spells can make them invisible and talk! Anyone who likes cats and magic would like this book.
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In P5/6 we do ERIC time (Everyone Reading In Class) every day. It’s 20 minutes of peaceful, calm reading which really sets us up for the day! Today we joined up with many schools all over Scotland to take part in the Ness Book Fest Reading Challenge. There were 14,200 children all reading simultaneously all over the country! More than double the number reading last year. David Walliams, Michael Morpurgo and David Baddiel books continue to be favourites in P5/6. Keep on reading everybody!
Today we took advantage of the beautiful weather to do our reading in groups outside. We didn’t see Jim Bob the frog, but we did get lots of reading done!
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Some of the class have made some wonderful World Book Day characters from fruit and veg. Can you recognise any of the characters?