This week in Literacy Primary 4 and Primary 4/3 have been reading a play and acting it out. They have looked at the importance of scene descriptions and instructions in a play.
From the play the children were able to identify the key moments: who is doing what; what phrases, actions and instructions are important to understand the play.
The children then worked together to put the key events of the play in order and then concentrated on retelling the story in their own words.
It was great fun!
We began our literacy work by discussing the difference between fact and opinion and sorted statements into these categories.
Our teachers put us into working groups to research a Scottish wildlife animal. Our task was to find out about their habitat, diet, social grouping, babies and talents. Primaries 5 and 7 were very kind to allow us to use their netbooks to carry out this research.
We used a notebook to record all the facts that we were learning and used these notes to create colourful and informative posters displayed that we have learned. Today we are going to present our findings to our classmates.
Elise D learned that adders have big sharp teeth.
Sophie K learned that foxes like to eat small animals and sometimes even eggs.
Cole enjoyed recording notes using the netbooks.
Sterling enjoyed making a colourful poster.
It’s a bit late but here are the children dressed up as characters from their favourite book.
Today has been a very busy and exciting day at St Nicholas Primary School as we all dressed up as our favourite book characters for World Book Day 2014! The boys and girls made a great effort with their fantastic costumes and we had great fun working out who everyone had come dressed as.
There were lots of beautiful princesses, cool superheroes, wise wizards and lovely fairies around the school, it was a magical place to be. We had Horrid Henry, Harry Potter, Matilda, Billionaire Boy, Gangsta Granny, Fantastic Mr Fox, Cat in the Hat, Oliver Twist… Even Sir Alex Ferguson paid a visit to St Nick’s today!
There were lots of fun activities going on throughout the school; we were sharing our books with friends through paired reading, giving reviews of our books and looking at the ways that famous authors help us to imagine characters in books that have no pictures.
In the upper school we decided to give our area a make over by creating a reading zone! We removed all the books from the shelves and put them into order, moved our book shelves around and started a new display. We can’t wait for the area to be completed so we can make great use of all the fantastic novels in the school and continue to enhance our reading skills. Check back soon to see photos of the finished product when we complete the transformation of our reading zone!
Thank you so much to those of you who attended the Read, Write, Inc. Curriculum evening that Mrs McGuire and I delivered last night. We hope that you found it useful and that you are now more aware of how we teach phonics and the skills of reading at St. Nicholas Primary School.
If you were unable to attend the meeting please visit www.ruthmiskenliteracy.com or www.oup.com for information about the programme. Please always remember that you are more than welcome to contact a member of staff with regards to any questions that you may have.
Please find links below for the Parent booklet on RWI, the speed sounds charts and a list of the mnemonics used in the early stages. I hope this will be of help to you in supporting your child to become able readers who have a passion for books.
http://www.speechsoundpics.com/resources/ReadWriteInc_letterformation.pdf – this link will take you to a list of the mnemonics used at the start of the programme. These help the children to recall the letters and to form them correctly when writing them.
Primary 1a and Primary 1b were very excited to receive a visit today from the musician Dave Trouten. We had a great time finding things that rhyme in his shopping bag and singing a song about our favourite sandwich fillings. We used our listening skills to sort out his shakers and then used the shakers with other instruments to create a piece of music about our imaginary train journey to the seaside. Afterwards we were all ready to come home for a rest!
The St Nicholas filmclub is very proud to announce that one of their members, Seren (P5B), recently won Review of the Week. No tall order I can assure you, as Seren’s review was chosen from all those written across the entire UK!
The review was written after she watched the film, ‘Arrietty’. Here’s what Seren had to say about it:
Beneath the floorboards of a kitchen in Tokyo, a 14 year old lives with her parents which are the same size as her. They may seem tiny but they are much more. Two ladies and a young boy live in the house above. The story is about the Borrowers and is about how they live in the house with humans. It is a 10/10 story because it has lots of cliffhangers and excitement in it.
I give it *****
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