Mrs Scobie

Tay Clan – Drama and Advent

Tay clan have been enjoying drama lessons based around story telling. This week, we had a go at hot-seating. In hot-seating, we pretend that we are a character and answer questions, from others, as if we were in that particular character’s shoes. We listened to the end of a story, as we have been working on endings to our own stories in writing, and then our group members asked us questions based on the story we had heard. We all had a turn and loved pretending to be someone else. It really got our imaginations switched on!

We have also been learning about advent this week: what it is and how it is celebrated. Through this learning, we decided to create our own clan advent calendar and base it around the value of kindness. We came up with a kindness challenge for each day of Advent and created our very own kindness calendar. We are very excited to start using this next week. We have also made our very own, unique, Tay clan Christmas wreath to hang in our clan room.

Book Week in Tay Clan

Tay clan have had a great week celebrating Book Week Scotland!

We worked collaboratively to make a book cover of our clan novel – The Land of Roar. Some clan members drew the cover of the book and the rest of the clan drew small pictures of characters or scenes from the book that we attached around the cover. We were very proud of our teamwork.

We completed a book quiz and we think we got all the answers correct, Some of us swapped books with each other and were excited to have a new book to read at home and we enjoyed guessing the champions book shelf in the book ‘shelfie’ quiz. We got Mrs Scobie, Miss Burton and Mrs Findlay’s book shelves straight away!

We enjoyed a visit from Mrs Findlay who read us the beginning of ‘Rivet Boy’ which we loved so much that we want to read more at another time.

Finally, we dressed up as our favourite book characters. We had some characters from Harry Potter, Gangsta Granny and even some mythical creatures – I wonder if you can spot a very well-known green monster hiding in our pictures.

We have had a great week, enjoying lots of books and stories and these have helped us to gather new and interesting words that we can use when writing our own stories.

Tay Clan – Sharing the Learning

Tay clan were very proud to share their literacy learning with families this week. We were very excited to demonstrate what and how we have been learning in our writing lessons and the progress we have made in our writing. It was a lovely afternoon. Thank you to everyone who attended.

We also enjoyed listening to our new class novel ‘The Land of Roar’ which hooked us into our new literacy theme for this terms learning. We got comfy and relaxed on the carpet with pillows and sat ‘ by the fire’ (YouTube works wonders these days!) to listen to an imaginative story. Afterwards, we took inspiration from the story and created maps of our own imaginary worlds. We loved delving into our imagination, where anything is possible!

Tay Clan – Maths Week Scotland

Tay clan have been exploring the water cycle, climate change, habitats and food chains through the context of rivers (our Tay clan namesake). This week we explored our key question ‘why does it rain so much in Scotland and where does it come from?’. We also discussed ‘what is weather and how does it exist?’, looking at where it comes from, how it forms clouds and why and how we measure rainfall.

We learnt about meteorologists and why they measure rainfall and why this is necessary. We decided to make our own rain gauges to measure the amount of rain that falls in our area. We used our measuring skills, that we have been learning in maths lessons, to support us to complete this challenge. We will explore how to collect, record and analyse our data in future lessons.

Tay Clan – Description Writing

To show what we know about writing a description text, Tay clan created their own sea creatures using line, shape and colour and then wrote a description. The more detail we added to our picture, meant that we would have more to describe in our writing. We then wrote a description of our creatures. We tried to write interesting descriptions so that the reader could visualise our sea creature in their head.

We have built on what we know already by learning a bit more about description writing. We have learnt about the purpose of this writing, how to structure the text and have learnt an example description through actions with words called ‘Wolf Spiders’. This learning helped us to write our own description of Mr Tickle who is from the series of Mr Men and Little Miss books which we have loved listening to which show how we are all unique.

Tay Clan – ‘Our Clan is a family’

Tay clan have had a fantastic 2 weeks of getting to know each other. We have worked together on expectations, routines and built up our Tay Clan family. Please click on the link below to read and look at what we have been doing together.

We have created a Tay Clan family album which we look forward to sharing with you soon.

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Dundee – Outstanding Olympians

Dundee Clan have begun work on their new learning ‘Outstanding Olympians’. We explored the origins of the Olympic games and how the competition has changed over time. We let our creative side shine through by choosing a challenge to undertake to show our understanding. Some of us created a new logo for the games incorporating the origins of the Olympics, some made a story to explain it with puppets, some of us have used technology to create presentations and some of us created a model of the Olympic stadium.

We have also been exploring the different food groups from the Eatwell plate and how each of these keep us healthy. Following on from this we all had a go at creating a healthy snack – a pitta pizza. We had a go at chopping onions and peppers to use as a topping for our pizza. We will continue to explore healthy food options and what this means for our bodies and explore the healthy lifestyle of an Olympic athlete.

Dundee Clan – Similarities and Differences

Dundee clan have been learning about what makes us all different and unique.

We began with creating our own unique fingerprint showing what makes us unique as a person. No two fingerprints were the same!

We explored our similarities and differences further by working with others in our clan to find out what we share with each other and what is different. We loved finding out more about each other – our families, religion, and languages spoken amongst many others.

We completed our learning with Autism Awareness Week, exploring autism to understand this further.

We created paper chain people, which we decided to link together and display in our clan, to celebrate our differences and how we are all unique.

Dundee Clan – Engineering

As a clan we have continued to look at the Victorian era as this has really interested us. After looking at jobs children did in those days, we began to explore inventions. We found out that the Victorian era was a time of change and different things were invented to make life easier. From this we explored the different inventions around the industrial revolution and the invention of toys.

We explored a timeline of toy inventions and had a go at creating our own Victorian spinning top with very little materials. We came to realise that toys were very different to those we have now.

This led us on to our engineering project. We looked at the job of an engineer and objects around us that may have been engineered. From this we began to think about a toy we would like to create and began to come up with ideas and plan our inventions.

Finally, we made a final labelled drawing of our design along with a persuasive letter persuading an engineer to make our toy. Over the next couple of weeks we will work on presenting our designs to our clan and one will be chosen to represent our clan at the whole school Dragons Den competition.

We have also been enjoying our new class novel – Rivet Boy, which is based in the past when the forth rail was being engineered. We are really enjoying this story.

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Dundee Clan Learning

Dundee clan have immersed themselves in all things non-fiction. We have been looking at non-fiction books and texts and exploring the features of these compared to fiction books. We have begun learning about how to write an information report and explored examples of this type of text finding out about the purpose, the sections that make up an information text and what the purpose of these sections are. We will continue to explore this over the weeks ahead. We have also started our new class novel ‘Rivet Boy’ which is based in the past, at the time of the construction of the Forth Rail bridge which links to our IDL learning about the Victorians and engineering.

We really enjoyed learning about jobs that children did in the Victorian times. We learnt about the types of jobs they were expected to do for little money and with no safety laws. We were very shocked at some of the information we learnt. We had a go at putting ourselves in the children’s shoes by taking part in a ‘Hot-Seating’ Task. This is where the children pretend that they are a child from the past and the rest of the group or clan ask questions about what life is like for them in the Victorian times and what it is like to work. The children were very believable in their roles and got a real feel for what it must have been like for children in those times.

We have also really enjoyed learning our example information report text about ‘firefighters’. We used visual pictures to support us learning the text and came up with some amazing actions to go with it and we all were able to say the text. The whole clan loved learning this and are looking forward to learning more about this type of writing and having a go ourselves.

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