It’s been another fun and busy week of great learning in 6b.

In maths we’ve been continuing our work on decimals, in particular rounding decimal numbers to the nearest whole number or tenth; it was fun and challenging but number lines were effective in helping us with our learning. Later in the week we also looked at decimal calculations, chiefly addition and subtraction, many of these were linked to our learning on money.

In writing and topic we’ve been learning and researching information about the tribal peoples of the rainforest, it was interesting to note the very different and unique ways of living these people have. We completed fact files on three different tribes from three different rainforests and will be using this information to help us with the creation of our next written task; blog writing. At the end of the week we looked at a blog the teacher had written and we colour coded the text to highlight all of the important elements contained within it.

We’ve been continuing reading our own novels this week in class, either reading independently on our tables or with the teacher. Furthermore, we’ve been continuing on our journey with Roald Dahl’s ‘Danny, the Champion of the World’ which we should finish early next week. Democracy will be in action thereafter to choose our next class novel.

In our French language learning we’ve been continuing to look at: colours, numbers (1-50), days of the week and months of the year.

Next week we will be finishing our work on decimals in maths and beginning our new topic of percentages. In literacy we will be beginning to plan our blog articles.

Have a lovely weekend!

Each table took responsibility for writing a paragraph about one part of the week that we, as a class, had enjoyed and agreed should be included in our blog.

In science, we learned how to make a compass move in water with a magnet and it works! Coins are magnetic but only the ones which have iron in them.

In language, We learnt about alliteration because we were writing headlines for our newspaper article. Some examples we came up with are Awesome Alex, Amazing Alfie, Graceful Grace, Rough Rowan and Outstanding Orlaith!

We made hats for the European Day of languages on Wednesday. We look at the flags of all the countries of Europe and chose flags to draw onto a piece of paper which we stuck on a headband. We also learnt the French names for some of the things we use in the classroom.

We learnt how to write in columns and paragraphs as we were writing newspaper reports. The most popular title was ‘Death of Darnley’

Lots and lots of children passed their tables test this week so the fuzzies were once again bouncing into tubs on Friday! The table of the week is the table with a magnificent 650 points……

P2B have had another busy week of learning and activities. We learned the days of the week in French and a song to go along with it on European Day of Languages. Today was Macmillan Coffee Morning which the children enjoyed being a part of and choosing some lovely cakes. I hope any parents who came alone enjoyed it too.

We learned about mosaics in art and made our own under the sea themed mosaics as well as learning about safety by the sea in health and wellbeing.

Here are some of P2B’s highlights – it seems gym with Mr Jeffries was a big hit this week!

Ben – Designing a gingerbread man and gluing and sticking the story.

Sophie – Making turtles out of squares.

Mikolaj – Gym with Mr Jeffries playing races.

Jack – Playing musical statues in the gym.

Ethan – Playing musical statues in gym. And cutting and sticking.

Isla – My favourite thing was the safety by the sea posters.

Kai – Playing musical statues with Mr Jeffries

Oliver – Creating our own gingerbread man.

Thomas – The gingerbread man.

Murray – Making the under the sea mosaics.

Hannah – My favourite was the French song, I even got to hear it at home.

Hollie – When we were doing the under the sea mosaics and when we did the gingerbread man story.

Daisy – When we did the gingerbread man and cut it out and stuck it.

Sofia –  Under the sea mosaics.

Anna – My favourite bit was playing snakes and ladder to practice numbers zero up to one hundred.

Hope – My favourite was everything.

Lois – Colouring in my gingerbread man.

From Miss Cowan

What a busy but short week we have had.  Here are some of our highlights:

Sophie S & Brandon: We enjoyed spelling this week.

Sophie M, Freya & Grace: I enjoyed sharing strategies in number talks.

Nina: I really enjoyed my first pupil council meeting.  I got a new badge which I will wear on my uniform.

Fearne, Dionne, Harris, Kayden, Keira, Ryan, Sophie M, Lacey & Ava: We liked maths when we were using counting on as a strategy for addition.

Archie, Max, Kayden, Luis, Jess, Lily, Harris, Marley & Eden: I enjoyed playing castles in the P.E. hall.

Isla & Tiana: I enjoyed writing a letter from Mary Queen of Scots.

Liam: I enjoyed adding in numeracy.

Evie & Eilidh: I enjoyed maths and P.E.

Sophie S: I liked making our healthy posters.

Scott: I enjoyed helping someone in maths.

Emily: I loved everything!

Have a lovely weekend!

Although it’s been a short week, it’s been busy in P4a.
Our table captains have collected the thoughts of the children on their table for the blog this week.
Red table – our highlights of the weeks were drama about being a supportive friend and our Cosmic yoga based on the trolls story.
Orange table – we really enjoyed Health and wellbeing about being a good friend and starting our timeline for Mary Queen of Scots.
Yellow table – we really enjoyed acting out our good friend scenes and Mary Queen of Scots.
Green table – we enjoyed doing the Cosmic kids yoga and assembly today which was a post-it party!
Blue table – we enjoyed doing our review jotters and rounding numbers.
Table of the week – yellow table with 250 points!

Another busy week!

Logan-Being Starwriter was good fun!

Grace-Practising my mental maths sums was great!

Kieran-I liked outdoor learning using the chalks for my sums

Willow-Reading my class book was fun for me

Ethan-Playing Scarecrow tyig and toilet tig at outdoor PE was great

William-I liked playing at Golden Time

Lucy-I got my Pupil Council badge and I liked making my glittery fish

Bailey-I liked outdoor PE

Aiden-I like playing with my friends at Golden Time

Daniel-I liked drawing my Marvel book picture for my review jotter                                                                                                                 Devyn-I liked challenging myself for my review jotter work

Georgia-I liked adding my sums this week

Michaela-I liked making my brains grow with Mrs Spence

Mason-I liked practising adding up to 20

Brooke-Playing with my home choice at Golden Time is good fun

Robyn-Making my fish at Art was a highlight

Tommy-Writing about my September holiday was my favourite task this week

This was a short week but we still managed to do lots.

Caitlin: I enjoyed doing mental maths.
Hamish: I enjoyed colouring in my maths fish.
Leah: I enjoyed writing about the fire drill.
Cameron: I enjoyed doing making the brain hats.
Ava: I enjoyed doing mental maths.
Emily: I enjoyed doing our review jotters, mental maths and writing.
Lily: I enjoyed all of maths.
Rose: I enjoyed writing.
all of us enjoyed going on the harvest hunt!

At the end of last year, P3B (now P4), rescued the potatoes from sports day from going to the bin. Instead, we planted them in bottles in class and watched them grow. We all took our plants home to look after and grow in our gardens during the holidays. (The bottles were too small to grow plants). The challenge was to see who could grow the most potatoes. Lilyrose won the challenge of growing the most potatoes. The attached video shows the plant that I took home and how the potatoes grew from one potato. I only got 4 tiny potatoes but that’s because I planted them out at the beginning of August.

What a busy and exciting week!

In Literacy, we have been learning about the different aspects of VCOP and working with partners. We have been writing sentences – some silly! and writing instructions for what to do if a fire alarm goes off.

This week was maths week. We took part in a competition, played lots of games to help with our learning and built 2D shapes from match-sticks.

In topic, we have been learning about our responsibilities and how to help our community. We went litter picking around the school and collected a large bag of rubbish from each of the playgrounds. The P1- P4 playground was the dirtiest and messiest. Unfortunately, the rubbish was thrown out before we could take a picture to show how much litter there actually was.

In science, we have continued to look at properties of different materials. We measured the strength of a variety of materials. We learned that strength is measured in Newtons.

A big thank you to all the parents who came along to ‘Meet the Teacher’. It was a pleasure meeting you!

As part of maths week, we have thought about how technology helps us in Maths. We were learning about how people have told the time in the past and how we do it nowadays. In the olden times, people used sundials to tell the time. We made our own sundials and we took them out to watch where the shadows fell on the dial. It was quite tricky for some of us to line up our dial with the correct time. The other problem we thought about was how people might have told the time if it was cloudy.
In modern times we can use phones, timers, laptops, tablets, cuckoo clocks, ipods, the sky, watches, the news, analogue and digital clocks, alarm clocks, the speaking clock. We even asked Siri what the time was!
We have also thought about and acted out some of our school values of respect, fairness, trust and passion. The hardest one to think about was passion but we all know that passion is a strong emotion and we know that when we are passionate about something we can show it, so it might be that we love everyone’s individuality, we love Maths or science, artclub, drama, breakfast club, drawing, multisports and we can show our passion about all of these by doing them enthusiastically and sharing our passion about them with others.
Table of the week – the table of the week competition was REALLY close this week with the Friday tables test influencing the winning table massively with just 20 points between first and third. However the winning table this week was………
ORANGE with 390 points!
We were really proud of Artjom for winning out mathemagician award this week and of Elena who was awarded P4as very first certificate for demonstrating school values.

This week we have had fun doing lots of exciting maths activities.  We have played games inside the classroom as well as taking our learning outside to the playground to do a maths trail.  Well done to Sophie S who won a certificate for her excellent effort in all maths and numeracy lessons all week.

In literacy we enjoyed trying out some new activities to help with our spelling and we also finished our imaginative stories.

Well done also to Emily who was the first P4B winner of the certificate for demonstrating school values.

Have a lovely long weekend.

Class sun have been working hard on their numbers up to one hundred, looking at place value, counting in steps, using the 2 times table or working on more and less.

In Language we have been looking at grammar and punctuation. Through out topic work we have been investigating lines for our art  and learning about the life cycle of plants and how a plant works. 

We hope you all have a good long weekend.

Primary 4b

Week beginning 3.9.18

This week we have been learning about Mary Queen of Scots and her early life.  We made birth announcements to show our learning.

In maths we continued our learning on shape with Mrs Rodger.  We participated in number talks with Mrs Knowles where we explored lots of different strategies and learned from each other.  As the weeks progress we aim to become a lot more confident at sharing our strategies with the class.

In art we were working on shading and we created some wonderful pieces of work.

Don’t forget we are having a “meet the teacher” session on Thursday.

We have had a great week.

In literacy, we have been learning how to make a sentence. we played some games and made silly sentences – that was ok as long as they made sense. We have started using different strategies to learn our spelling, including playing boggle and being a teacher!

In maths, we have been working on identifying numbers more, less or between, and counting up and down in tens and hundreds. We have continued with identifying 2D shapes.

In topic, we discussed problems in our community and will be looking at how to tackle littering. We also looked at why rules are important and how there are common rules at all places like schools, clubs and hospitals.

Have a great weekend.